Thanks for welcoming me and thanks for your kind words, they have made me feel more optimistic and I realise he is in the best place he can be. I just feel so helpless and I miss him so much, you get so used them being around. Apparently he has drunk some water of his own accord this morning and the vet is phoning me this afternoon with a progress report so I have my fingers crossed for good news.

Jerseygirl – I will ask if they are giving him gut motility drugs, the only thing the vet did that I know of is inject a saline solution for hydration.

Monkeybun – my bun is 17 months old now – still young!

Thanks once again!

Thanks guys for your lovely words and healing vibes! 

Well the vet phoned yesterday afternoon and said that she x-rayed him and couldn’t find a blockage but could see gas and bloat and air is in the stomach and building up in his intestine so she has given him something to help soak up the gas.  She has also given him painkillers and more fluid for hydration.  She also said that she has taken a blood sample which has been sent off to the lab.  She found his blood glucose high but thinks that is from the effects of statis rather than diabetes.  On the plus side she said he’s drinking of his own accord and that he seems interested and alert considering. 

He is a stong litle fella and it is sad that he’s so young.  We have to phone up the vets this morning so fingers crossd that we get to bring him home today and that there is an improvement!

Well we phoned the vet this morning and she had good news for us – Mr Flopsy had pooped and peed in the night and he was eating!  The relief we felt was enormous.  We have picked him up from the vet this afternoon and the little guy was so happy to see us, it just melts your heart! 

Our vet is very good actually, we are lucky cos we have come across some useless vets in the past.  She showed us his x-rays and his belly was so bloated the poor thing also the blood test came back fine and we have to give him a course of anti-biotics for the next 5 days.  She said he is still on the road to recovery and we have to keep a close eye on him,  he’ll be back for a check-up on Saturday so between now and then I hope he goes from strength to strength!

He’s already peed on me and done some (loose) poops and he’s had a munch of his favourite parsley - we are over the moon that he is home.  Mr Flopsy and I thank everyone for their kind messages of support and making us feel welcome on the forum ((((sending bunny hugs)))) we really appreciate all the positive comments made, they really helped xxx

RabbitPam – Thanks for the welcome! Our vet suggested we up Mr Flopsy’s fibre intake by adding Protexin Pro-Fibre to his diet – I don’t know much about the supplement but its something to think about if it helps him in the long run. We do give him plenty of Timothy hay and veg – he loves parsley and romaine lettuce. We also feed him Burgess Excel pellets which he goes mad for – we did get Oxbow Bunny Basics but they were always left at the bottom of the bowl in the attempt to gradually switch him over – maybe we should be more persistant as I think they have a higher amount of fibre in them. We never feed him on the more gassy veg like broccoli and cabbage. I really don’t know what could have triggered it off – he started eating his pellets as normal on Sunday night, I noticed he didn’t have as much as normal before he was out and about again and then it all happened. Actually he hasn’t been interested in the pellets since and he ate only 1 pellet this morning – is it possibile he’s gone off them and that they were the cause? He usually wolfs them down so maybe we should give them in 2 sittings rather than 1 large one?

jerseygirl – I have seen simethicone mentioned on this forum and on other articles about GI Statis but don’t really know anything about it. I will look into it further and purhase some incase he should ever get it again (touch wood he doesn’t). The vet has given us Baytril for him – it seems to be the prefered anti-biotic here in the UK but although Mr Flopsy is very affectionate he is not so keen on being handled unless he’s getting stroked so we have had no luck in administering baytril to him today – the vet said to give him 0.4ml baytril in 100mls of water instead of syringing it into his mouth – I fear our attempts at doing it this morning may have annoyed him to say the least as he hasn’t come out from under the guinea pigs home for most of the day but on the plus side he has eaten nearly a full bowl of parsley and romaine. He’s mainly been eating a load of hay which I guess his system really needs.