Behaving normally before all this, slightly lazy during the day though possibly.
So she was behaving oddly on Saturday morning, I gave her her dinner quite late around 11pm and when I woke up it wasn’t fully eaten. This was odd as she has a big appetite for everything green. I look around her pen and can’t see her anywhere, turns out she is hiding at the back of a cardboard box in the dark. When I try to pet her, she likes it but doesn’t move. Normally when I put pellets out for her she runs around my feet going crazy and binkying but she doesn’t do anything today. Fur is fine, no bugs. Teeth and nails look fine. Breathing is normal. Anyway, I put the pellets out for her, slightly worried, and leave, telling my mother to watch and see how she is.
When I get back around 12.30pm, I see bunny is in the same position and nothing is eaten. At one point she slowly jumps out of the cardboard box and walks around a bit before lying down in another place under a desk. After a while, she goes back to cardboard box.
Her positioning throughout all of this has been VERY relaxed; legs out behind her, stretched out, paws tucked up under her dewlap. But yeah, she’s been super lazy and tired looking. She has also been shaking and her heart beating very fast. She seems quite panicky. I call the vet immediately and an hour later arrive and tell the vet everything. She examines bunny and says that she’s most likely in pain and something has just gone wrong in her tummy and as bunny tummies are sensitive it really could be anything. She hadn’t eaten anything new lately apart from two cobs of corn in around a four day period (didn’t remember about the corn until today so I didn’t tell vet). The vet gives her two injections, one painkiller and something else/another painkiller. One was called boop and the other began with an m.
Go home, she angrily digs her carrier box but other than that doesn’t do much. Cleans herself. Goes back in the cardboard box and hides her face with blanket. Still won’t eat. I leave it a few hours. Go back, same position. Watch for a while and bunny goes to water bowl and drinks. Hurrah! Still not eating or pooping though (or even peeing). Mix up pellets, kale and water into a paste and put in syringe. I hold her and get my mum to feed her two syringe-fulls of this paste. She unwillingly eats it. We only did this because the vet said her stomach didn’t seem too full, it was normal-ish, and we need bunny to poop. Bunny drinks more water and sleeps the whole night.
Okay so on day 2. This is today. Vet was hoping she’d be better by now (hoping last night). Wake up to find water spilled around water bowl and bunny laying in the water. She has been doing this a lot, just relaxing next to the water bowl. Is she too hot? Still won’t eat but I think she has been drinking. No poos as far as I can see. Still seems exhausted but is loving cuddles and massages. I don’t think its gas either I have tried massages for that, doesn’t seem to be working. She has peed!! Hallelujah! But no poos so still super worried. Pee seemed quite dehydrated and smelled. Yellowy/brown colour. She has also been kicking up her legs like she is flicking dirt at me sometimes (normally after I try to feed her to be fair).
Anyway I’ll most likely be going back to the vet today. Anyone have any ideas? I’m so worried about her and don’t know what to do as vet yesterday doesn’t seem to have changed anything. I think its the corn? It was dry corn that said it was okay for bunnies and I hung it up so she’d have to exercise and stand up to get it. Maybe she ate too much too quickly? Please help.
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