Thanks to everyone for the healthy vibes!

Sarita, we’ll definitely check his teeth. He’s never had an issue before and had a check up about 6 months ago, but with hollands it’s always a worry. Hannah had spurs at 3 years old despite no previous problems (and 3 years later it hasn’t returned).

I go home at lunch to check on the dog, so I’ll offer him some veggies and see if he’s feeling better. I’m hesitant to take him to the vet today, because I’ve done that with Hannah and paid $500 for them to find nothing, and have her start eating a few hours after getting home. If he stops taking treats I’ll probably see if I can get him in today though.

Otto is still really uncomfortable this morning and hasn’t eaten. It’s hard to tell if he’s popping since there are two of them, but he sat in the litter box most of the night and the only poo I found was some wet cecal type things strung together with hair or hay. We’re leaving for the appt in a few minutes, so I’ll update later on what the vet says.

Back from the vet. They did xrays and his stomach is very distended with gas, but there were poops moving along too, so he’s not completely in stasis. His teeth did have small spurs, so the vet took care of those, though they may or may not be part of the problem. They did sub-q fluids and she sent us home with metacam and cisapride for motility. We’re going to keep doing the critical care and do simethicone too. If he’s not better tomorrow, we’ll take him back for more fluids, but she thinks he should be ok in a day or two.

Interestingly, the xrays showed that he has fairly severe arthritis in his spine, and fairly bad hips (I guess you’d call it dysplasia). He’s never been great at cleaning himself “down there” and this could explain why. She said it’s worse than she would expect on a 4 year old rabbit, so we’ll have to keep an eye on it as he ages. He’s always been very lazy and not much of a jumper, so I would guess this has always been a problem for him. He doesn’t seem to have trouble doing his daily activities though and getting onto the second floor of the Maze Haven.

So that’s my update! We also got suckered into buying a new small animal specific Furminator. We have the blue one, for cats, but it has never worked very well. They have a pink one now, that apparently this vet helped Furminator design. She let us try one out and it actually worked really really well, so we figured with how much we were already paying them we might as well get one. We definitely need to do a better job brushing Otto.

Thanks, Jersey. Not sure if the car helped much. We’re trying to keep him moving around a bit though. It’s weird that his stomach didn’t feel distended last night, but it really does today.

He started to eat on his own last night with little bits of hay and lettuce. We’ll keep up the meds and critical care, but I think he’ll be back to normal soon. Thanks for all of the well wishes!

As of this morning he’s back to normal and no more force feedings 🙂 He was eating slowly and small amounts yesterday on his own, so we kept up the critical care, but he was obviously feeling better because he was very feisty.

At one point DH offered him pellets when he wouldn’t eat more lettuce and he dove in to the bowl. DH tried to take it away and Otto actually growled at him. lol Guess he was hungry!