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If he is still pooping and eating a bit, I agree with Bam that giving some watered down critical care, plain water, or hay tea would be better than pedialyte. There are also some rabbit-specific oral fluids available now that you might look into to have on hand.

Giving a small amount of oral fluids or offering a pile of wet salad greens is often…[Read more]

Aww glad it went OK! Bun Jovi is also “a handful” at the vets, I’m sure they will be back to normal soon!

It’s not in all hotots, but it’s a condition linked to the “charlie” markings.  “Free-fed” refers to being fed unlimited pellets, to help compensate for the weight loss that can occur. In megacolon rabbits the cecum doesn’t function properly, so they have trouble absorbing nutrients.

This site has a ton of helpful info, that also might help you…[Read more]

I use Nationwide. As far as I know, as stated by @wick & Fable, they are the only insurance company with an exotics plan. I have only used it once (for tooth dremmeling; the deductible for each filed claim is $50 and the amount they gave for the procedure I filed for was $50 so I broke even on that one lol). I have another claim currently pending…[Read more]

@azerane and @Bam thank you for reading! I feel like I always get the oddball situations so researching for this situation was VERY difficult, but I am glad that I was able to get some answers, make some moves and see improvements for Olivia.

Thanks for removing the source code!

It seems you are making progress 😀

I think Nellie is an adorable name for her! She could of course be officially called Penelope, possibly with a title such as Countess Penelope or The Honorable Lady Penelope, since all buns are nobility, but be known as Nellie for everyday purposes.

Unflavored pedialyte can be given to rabbits, but since it has simple sugars it should be a lot more diluted than for a human or it can cause gastric upset (overgrowth of the “wrong” bacteria in the cecum). I think I’d rather give very runny Critical Care or similar recovery formula. You can also syringe some plain water, not ice cold.

Treating…[Read more]

Thank you so much for sharing! This is really valuable and highly encouraging!

(I removed the visible source code, I hope I got all of it, haha!)

Thanks for the reassurance!

I played hard to get last night, i was sat in the room across from her pen and left her pen open, just sorta ignoring her and she came about half way up to me and stared at me for a minute, I could tell by her body language she was very curious! And this morning I gave her pellets and she went straight over to them to…[Read more]

I am so glad to hear that your rabbit is recovering well. She’s certainly been through a lot. Thank you so much for sharing, this kind of information can be really helpful to other people.

I think it’s normal for all animals to get eye boogers sometimes, people get them too 🙂 But it really depends how frequently and if the eye is irritated as well. If there’s no obvious irritation and it’s once in a while, that’s ok. If it’s creating quite a bit of discharge every day or two then that’s something that should probably be looked at.

Dana, I didn’t know about Hotot’s GI problem! I just emailed the vet and will give them a call tomorrow to ask. Just googled it and yes, she did lose some muscle tone after she came here. And for a rabbit this young eating oat hay all the time, she does seem to have a weaker GI than my other bunnies. What is free-fed? I also read that for bunnies…[Read more]

They snuggled at the vets for support.  Dorian was the golden child and Miu has “is a handful” down on her permanent record.  She also has two lower molars that are a tad long, though more something to keep an eye on at this point. Hopefully they will fully recover from the stress in a bit. Well Dorian ate all the greens and washing so more w…[Read more]

Oh that makes a lot of sense, thank you so much! <3

So sorry this is late but I’m do super sorry for your loss 💔 So much sass in such a small bunny! I believe she’s having fun with some bunny friends and being a bunny boss

I’m so sorry for your loss 💔 As DanaNM and Bam said it could’ve been a heart attack or stroke. She’s a lovely little bun

@DanaNM yes, quite the wild ride. I didn’t realize that those source code things would show up in the post so sorry if it read weird!

WOW, what a saga. I’m so happy that she is recovering well!