I am in the process of moving. My bedroom is a mess to say the least. The floor doesn’t even exist at the moment.
Dini has never been one to really get into things unless food is involved. And he has certainly never been able to reach my desk. But he isn’t named after Houdini for nothing.
Friday night around 2am I went into my bedroom (it is attached to the rabbit room) to all of my stuff that is normally on my desk laying in the floor and Dini was on my desk. Now Dini was supposed to be securely jailed behind a very high gate in the rabbit room. I noticed he was chewing on something and picked him up. Under him was a bottle of medication I had to take two weeks ago for a back injury that was on the shelf above the desk. How he managed to get the bottle I have no clue because the shelf is high. But I suspect he knew the treats were on that shelf and somehow managed to get up there. He had eaten 2 of the pills inside. These are dangerous for people to take over one let alone a rabbit eating two.
There is no longer an emergency vet that sees rabbits in my area. They flat out told me if you bring him here we will turn you away we do not treat rabbits and do not have a vet that knows about rabbits. To say I was freaking out was an understatement. So I called the vet that I took Enki to and was told until I could get him to a vet even if it is my dog vet to keep him awake (the medication is known to slow your heart rate) keep him hydrated and make sure he is eating. So I literally sat up all night keeping him awake and feeding him water and anything he would eat. He didn’t seem affected at all in the least. He was a tiny bit slower than normal but if I didn’t know what to look for I wouldn’t have noticed.
Sunday morning I made the 2 hour trek to the vet. She ran a bagillion tests and gave him so much fluids I am shocked he didn’t blow up like a balloon. Nothing was found except his heart rate was a little bit slow. They gave him something to counteract the medication (I can’t remember what) and put him on oxygen. I went to work and called every chance I got to check on him. He was causing a lot of trouble instead of being sick. He peed on two vets and a tech. He attempted to chew the oxygen mask even though it was wrapped around his head. When a tech when to draw more blood he bit her three times. And he threw the veggie bowl against the holding cage he was in before leaving a trail of poops around the cage.
I brought him home after work. He has been doing fine. I am still keeping an eye on him since I know some medications can cause problems later down the line.
All medication whether it is human, dog, cat, rabbit, reptile, etc is now in another room where master escape artist Dini has no access to.