The worst might be over. I gave him a hot water bottle as I thought maybe he was shaking because he could not stay warm. Perhaps this, perhaps the meds worked. At least, he is moving around now and is eating a little bit as well. And he is not restless at all anymore either. He is even curious and wanting cuddles – while earlier on, he clearly didn’t want me around.

I have made him a new hot water bottle for the night, and hopefully, he will be fine tomorrow.

But still, very strange about the cramping. You know, when you suddenly get a chill and you sort of shake down your spine? That’s what he was doing. Just for longer periods of time.

His tummy seems fine. No gas at all. And he lets me examine his tummy, so I don’t think that was it. I have tons of meds for tummy issues at home, but nothing for whatever this is/was.

Everything seems fine this morning. He is eating, pooping, drinking and wanting cuddles. It is so strange. Maybe Bam is right, and he got hypothermmic because he was unwell. It’s the first time in my life that I have seen a rabbit put himself on top of a hot water bottle, so he must have needed the heat.

Unfortunately, the fact that he is unwell again, means that my vet’s advice about putting him to sleep if he should fall ill again before Christmas, might be one to consider.

I have an hour’s drive to the rabbit-savvy vet, but the thing is that when it’s outside normal office hours (mon-fri, 8-16), I cannot choose the vet myself. It’s a rotating emergency vet system – and never in my life have any of my rabbits won in that lottery. If they are very ill, they always end up with the least knowing vet

Yes, he was shaking/cramping before the meds. He was grinding his teeth simoultaneously, so I thought maybe he was in pain, and that’s why he got the meds.

My vet has been very kind and she is treating him with big discounts, because she wants him him to have a second chance. But he is 6 years, and she pulled out all his rotten teeth, hoping that they would grow out, but they have not. So she said, that he would most likely have complications from the rotten teeth and he would need to be anesthetized every month in order to have his teeth done, and she said that would be too much for him, as he is fragile, and not something you should put a rabbit through.

We have not found anything else wrong with him, but I can sense there is more to him. He can only eat soaked pellets. Even the smallest piece of fruit, grass or vegetables gives him a very bad case of diarrhea where it just runs right out of him, when he moves. Also, he seems to have pains down his back, but I am massaging him and I think it seems to work. But other than that and some snuffles, he is fine. He doesn’t move much, but I think that is mainly because he has spent his whole life in a hutch, so he is just not used to moving around. He can do it though, because I can hear him at night time running around. Also, he loves digging in his toilet.