Hey!

(update)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted and been on the forum – life has been increasingly busy during my post-grad. Hope everyone is well. Glenn and Nellie are doing well generally! For anyone that remembers the GI struggles, Nellie hasn’t had a stasis bout in a year!

(question)

I was looking for some advice on aging bunnies. Glenn is 9 years old in a few weeks . He was taken to the ER vet on the 26th of December as he seemed to have moderate audible breathing and a little chest flexing, as I have insurance I took him straight in to rule out an emergency, they confirmed likely a non urgent upper respiratory issue but not the cause, we suspected the issue was hay dust from the last of the bag the previous night, a couple days of metacam and he was back to normal… Tonight he has had slightly more audible breathing… Not anywhere near as bad, to the point I probably would not really have noticed had it not been for the recent previous episode, only a very gentle snore when he lies down and nothing otherwise, I’ve given metacam for inflammation. Again I recall the a bit off dust in his forage last night… Is it possible that with age he is now more sensitive to dust and more likely to get a little inflamed? We have ramped up to more frequent cleaning and now I’m thinking he may be too old tolerate the ends of forage and hay bags he once used to be…. No other symptoms, no discharge or sneezing etc, appearing as healthy as normal… What do others think can this type of thing be expected with age? Maybe just a coincidence.. I would have thought something like polyps/infection would have been more constant and obvious.

Thanks!