So, this is a long story. It starts in about June, when my bunny went into the vet for GI stasis. He recovered fine, and we gradually switched his diet to greens and hay. He was doing great, and then about a few weeks later, he was either constipated, or had gas. he was sitting in hunched positions, and was not eating, drinking, but he had passed a giant poop. I massaged his tummy, and eventually, another giant poop came out, and then some normal ones, and he was back to normal. I thought this was happening because he had been eating too many greens. So I cut back on greens, and he ate mostly hay. Then, he started getting really runny cecostropes, and I would notice this in the mornings, and his butt was really messy. Then, about a month later, while still on the greens and mostly hay diet, he lost half his weight, or more. He was weak, couldn’t jump on couches, or run up stairs, and I did reasearch, and found out that megacolon was a thing that happens to bunnies rarely. Also that even if a bunny eats well, they have trouble maintaining weight, because their body doesn’t absorb the nutrients well. He is 4, and apparently signs start to show when they are 3-4 years old. Signs are losing weight, diareah, and large poops, and other weirdly shaped poops, which my bun had as well. We took him to the vet a couple times, and the vet was worried about his weight, as were we too. We gave him critical care, and pellets that were added to his diet from the vet. We took him agian about 2 weeks later for a check-up, and he had gained lots of weight, and he was stronger, he could go up stairs, and jump on couches. We asked the vet about the megacolon, and she said that he didn’t have megacolon, even though she was the one who had seen the giant poops, and seen how much weight he’d lost in a very short amount of time. She had also ex-rayed him, and apparently his cecum looked inflamed. With megacolon, the rabbits cecum is bigger that it is supposed to be. To me, this sounds like megacolon, but she said that it was probably that it was his teeth, and that his teeth had little spurs on them that made it hard for him to eat, but he was eating just fine, and he was eating lots!!! If my rabbit does have megacolon, it would make so much sense. But the vet seems very narrow-minded when it comes to this. I just don’t know what to do.
Has anyone experienced something like this before? Do you have any advice?
P.S. He’s doing really well now, and is currently munching hay.
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