So sorry to hear of Abby’s passing. In my life I’ve looked at my very beloved and best friend parents in death, two beloved dogs, a beloved cat, and a beloved house rabbit, Bunny.
About Metacam. Bunny was not eating her cecum pellets…as a rabbit should. She was about 9 years old at the time. Not eating the pellets meant that some were deposited on our bedroom carpet where we would step on them unknowingly smoosh them into the carpet.
Also, some of the cecum pellets would get caught up in the hair around her rectum and create a big mass of cecum pellets which we had to clean off.. To clean her, we had to catch her, turn her upside down and place her between out legs to clean off her rectum area….not a happy bunny with this carry on.
The reason she was not eating the cecum pellets as they came out of her rectum, was that she had spinal stenosis! Arthritis of the spine. Our vet showed us the X-ray. It was painful for her to bend over and eat the cecum pellets as they came out. We gave her Medicam and amazingly she could bend over and eat the cecum pellets.
Every morning Bunny expected a banana slice. We cut a conical section in the banana slice and put her 1 1/2 ml of Medicam in the banana. She then ate everything in the banana…she also was eating her cecum pellets. Such a good solution.
We now feed our two Flemish rabbits (10 months old) banana slices. When they get to be old bunnies, we’ll feed their meds in the banana slices.