Had my first bunny emergency with Oswald the Monday before Thanksgiving. He ran out of water in his water bottle overnight (I feel terrible, I usually ALWAYS check it before I head up to bed) and was in the midst of a major shed (again) and the following day he was lethargic and mopey, just lying in his litter-bed. (What I call the downstairs litterbox that he never uses to potty, only to lay in) He didn’t rush up to his bowl when I gave him his pellets, which is highly unusual since he LOVES his pellets and runs around like a madman for them. I noticed he hadn’t gone to the bathroom all day and got worried. Of course this was on a Sunday, so I went online to see what I could do to keep him from getting dehydrated until the next morning when I could get him to the vet. I had my husband rush out to buy unflavored pedialyte and we forced it with a syringe, first every 10 mins for an hour, then hourly until about 3 am. I finally had to go to bed because I had a test in class at 8am, my husband slept downstairs on the couch to listen for him to drink or move around. He gave him pedialyte a couple more time throughout the night. He was still pretty listless the next morning, but alive. I went to school and as soon as I finished my test I called my vet and they had me rush him in for an urgent care appointment. When we got there, the vet examined him and thought he felt a foreign object in his belly, so wanted to do an ultrasound ($600) or a lateral x-ray ($75). I didn’t have much money so I opted for the x-ray, which showed no foreign object. He gave him sub-q fluids and sent me off with a note to buy fresh pineapple juice and papaya enzyme tablets and feed him that in a syringe a couple times a day. We got the juice and tablets, and gave him it a couple times that day and he perked up and finally there were the littlest saddest poos in his litterbox. He still wouldn’t eat or drink though, but he was alert and moving around a little. After the 2nd treatment of the pineapple and papaya enzyme, he finally peed and the poo pellets were getting bigger. By that night, he actually nibbled some pellets and hay. Still no drinking, so I kept up with the juice treatment for the next day and finally that night he drank again and seemed perfectly back to normal. I was so relieved.
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