When I first got Belle, the lady I got her from told me she “had to get rid of her because her other rabbits were beating her up”, poor thing! And I was told the scab on her nose was a recent bite. But it didn’t heal, and instead (over the past week or so) had gotten much worse. She started sneezing occasionally a while ago, but I assumed it must just be allergies to dust or hay because there was no discharge, and it started right after we moved in to a new place. But the past week it got much worse, so I brought her in to the vet and they cleaned it up and found it was actually dried on mucus (ew..) and not a scab at all. They swabbed it and it is a bacterial infection. I feel so bad this has gone on for so long now, but at the same time a little annoyed because when I got her, I brought her to the vet to get her all checked and they said the scab looked fine and not to worry about it. But it wasn’t okay

So now that the “scab” is gone and the mucus and bacteria has been irritating the area so it’s hairless and really red and I feel so terrible everytime I look at her poor little nose I kind of started thinking it was maybe Pasteurella, which is why I brought her in to the vet, but it should have been sorted out way before now. Yesterday we started her on Baytril twice a day. And now I’m worried because up until now, she has been acting 100% okay- her regular hyper, little piggy self. And now she is barely eating her veggies and has no enthusiasm to fresh hay or her pellets, like she did before. And she’s also sneezing a LOT more than before. Is this normal? Do the antibiotics kind of make things worse when they first start working? I know they can really mess up a bunny’s GI tract, so I’m worried about her slowing down on eating. Would the Baytril upset her stomach in any way? I just want my poor baby to feel better already

Anyone have experience with this at all?