I still haven’t really found the cause, some signs are pointing to stress (she’s sensitive to even minor things that wouldn’t really bother other buns too much) and fur ingestion, she has long hair and does all the grooming for herself and Glenn (we do trim her) . I may just have to except that sometimes it’s just unclear what causes it, it’s just frustrating!

I terms of gas/blockage, her tummy was hard and gassy and she got prokineticks and spasmolitics from her vet and we were advised to syringe feed (we suspected gas at the time and I don’t think anyone expected it to get worse) so we did that and then after a few hours of waiting for the meds to take effect nothing had changed and the tummy felt more distended and she was very lethargic so we took her to the ER vet. Perhaps her tummy was in bad stasis so the food and smithecone just sat there accumulating 🙁

She’s doing really well now still. We have taken on the suggestions from yourself and others I’ve been in touch with and we have some probiotoics and multivitamins on the way! Fingers crossed this helps. Were also reducing the amount of fresh greens and increasing forage in hopes to keep the fiber intake high.

I will speak to the vet about the melatonin, thanks 😊.

I am in two minds about calming plug ins to keep her stress low, some of these seem to be effective and marketed to bunnies but I thought that these kinds of scent diffusers were bad for them – this was mentioned in a different context in a previous post of mine.