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Oh, Muchelle, I’m so sorry
Poor little lord. I can’t imagine what more you could have done to minimize his exposure to loose fur. It’s amazing that you felt the blockage at all, really. Darling Kuro… he was on such a good medical streak, too. I really hope he pulls through and bosses his way back to full health. Chewie and I are rooting for him and sending nose boops and ear rubs and hugs for you (((((((((Kuro))))))))) -
So, I visited him. He was better than last night. Ate by himself, peed, did some poops. He totally hated me when I tried to touch him, which is totally like him.
He had some temperature so the vets told me he won’t be in the clear at least until Sunday, so we keep waiting…I told the doc he was using a bowl and she said it’s totally possible he shed in the bowl and drank it up (even if I cleaned) and that he needed more brushing. I’ve recently started a relationship so I spend sat-sun to my guy’s place once every 2 weeks… this month I was away 2 weekends in a row (so 4 days) and vet said it’s possible that less brushing was enough to fill him up. Idk what to make of this info as yet, still feeling like s***
Thanks for your words guys, I hope the good vibes reach him and he can be home sunday night or monday
@Bam, sadly I know how to give him subQ fluids. Vet said to switch him to the bottle instead of the bowl and brush him like crazy during the rest of the shed. I’m thinking about buying the Furminator brush (the one for long-haired cats), maybe it’s more efficient…
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Oh that wasn’t very nice of the vet to suggest hat because you were away one night of the weekend for two weekends in a row that this caused it!!!! Poor you. It really cant be soley because of that. Zou and Henry don’t drink at all bcause i think they have waaaaaay than enough water in the 6-8 endives they eat per day. (They certainly pee enough!)
Could you find a high in water veg (lettuce) that will help with the fur journey….?
Ps. Congrats on the reason why you were away…
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@jerseygirl: Yes, he chews cardboard and paper but he spits it out entirely (he can chew it only when monitored). Doc said they only extracted fur matted together by water.. so he likely kept drinking and licking himself.
Today I couldn’t talk with the doc cause the team was in the ER for an emergency, but the nurse (that is also a rabbit owner) said she sees him better than last night. He ate, drank, peed. Still no poop but he’s having the usual post-anesthesia colic. He’s still needing some syringe feeding and still has some fever. Tonight I’ll talk with the vet squad. We’re about 48 hours away from the surgery so they might be able to tell me what happens now.
For sure he recognized me and growled at me numerous times, then he had a soft moment and face-planted against my hand to sleep there for a bit.(@Vienna: hehe
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K’s home. When I saw him at the hospital he was in terrible state, too stressed up, so I signed papers to pull him out of that hell hole.
Overall he’d be in decent health if not for the accumulated gas (from stomach distension + pain) in his intestine, that might kill him at any time since we can’t know how much is in there. He’s going to have his usual set of plasil+debridat shots and metronidazole.As soon as he was home he perked up and checked his pen, drank and now he’s slumped in his cage. I’ll let him be for an hour or so, hoping he’ll eat something. Stuff isn’t looking too good right now, but we’re trying.
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Oh, sweet darling boy.
I was under the impression that his medical woes were always looked after by a really good team of people – did you have to take him somewhere new and nasty? I’m with Vienna: please try to gently lift his bum up as high as you safely can, hold for a few counts, then down. Then repeat. It help work gas bubbles up and out of their intestines. Gentle massage along his sides (since his tum is stitched up) will also help between lifts.
(((((((((Kuro)))))))))
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{{{Kuro}}} !
So glad he is home and you had seen some improvement in his activity levels.
He rests with his forehead almost on the ground and has heavy balance problems… could it be from the IV port he still has in the ear?
His head twisted around and forehead down similar to this?
Or just lowering his head, nose to ground?
Did the hospital tell you the signs he displayed when he had a temp spike? Was he running a temp before the surgery at all?
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IV needle is out, surgical wound is looking fine and we’ve been switched to a less aggressive antibiotic. I still have to call the vet every morning for an update at least until friday, but he was very positive about the destiny of “miracle boy”.
Right now K’s very pissed and still a bit stressed from the trip, but he keeps pushing out poop… so yeah, maybe tonight I’ll sleep
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Today I met K’s nurse from the hospital at the mall. She was so sad to hear about his soon-to-be pirate ear, since she took super good care of him (and the other buns, she’s a bunny owner herself). I wonder if I could be as compassionate as her after going through vet school
being a paramedic already desensitized (spelling??) me enough. Random thoughts, sorry. As for K, he’s trying to eat more often and he tries to walk (even with poor results). The ear is definitely of a more normal pink… I wish tomorrow goes by without problems and I wish on monday we’ll hear good news from the doc.
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@vienna: my plan is to photoshop a golden hoop earring on his ear after we’re through with this XD well, if we get through this, since we’re still not sure.
@bam: yes, they’ll have to amputate half of his right ear
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Just back from pre-op visit with surgeon & his vet. Stitches were taken out, his belly is healing just fine. He poops, eats, drinks and hates me more than ever. Won’t be going through ear surgery yet cause his body blocked off the necrotic zone with a nice chord of scar tissue, so we’ll give it a week or so and then either laser it off or wait for it to fall on its own. He’ll still be needing antibiotic and metacam and vet gave him some ferments to help his poop get back to normal but most importantly…
WE’VE BEEN DEEMED HEALTHY!!!!
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Thanks bam, I’ll ask about it to the vet! Today the ear is normally pink and also the scruff of his neck (it was inflamed too). I wonder if he still has a bit of an inflamation in his inner ear and that, combined from the exhaustion and the reduced mobility of the bad ear is giving him trouble.
Except for this, he’s gladly munching on his first piece of celery since last week
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Hey, you know, one baby step at a time – and we all know that eating and pooping are THE priorities in little buns’ lives….
Kuro is doing so great at the moment and now eating celery (yay!) and so, one stage at a time….
eating well is a sign that other things are OK too…. so go with that for a few days – just so long as eating doesn’t slow down, give him all he can chomp at !! -
Back from checkup. The little idiot took the ear off almost completely by himself, so the vet simply plucked the piece off and gave him a couple stitches + desenfectant. Right now he has quite the dramatic look (no pics yet, we got underaged people here xD), he doesn’t seem to care though. I think he was very bothered by the dried up piece of ear…
So now I’m on close watch to make sure he doesn’t even think about scratching off the stitches, luckily vet assured me the cut will heal superfast (stitches removal is on tuesday to avoid further stress). First thing he did once back home was to stuff his face
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Ear’s all healed up
tomorrow we take off the stitches. As for K, he’s eating like no tomorrow, pooping and peeing (everywhere, sigh). Still not back to his humping routine, maybe the internal stitches still bother him a bit, but he walks perfectly now and his character is back 
He still looks like a lord of darkness even after all he’s been through. We humans still need to get used to his new looks, we’ll get there eventually…
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@Vienna: yes! we managed to salvage the little stump on the far left by massaging him (probably helped blood going up there again) and his body produced a cord of thick skin all around the damaged tissue. Once that was set, the ear was ready to go and he had all the intentions of finishing the job by himself!
I don’t remember who asked me about thermoregulation, maybe Bam? Anyways, I asked and the vet said that it would be a problem if he was an outside bun, but since he’s housed inside he’ll just need a little extra attention during our torrid summers. So basically the answer is that losing one ear might be a problem if there’s no A/C. Luckily, Italy’s a no can do unless you have a good air cooling device installed in as many rooms as possible
Hehe he also has a gorgeous little white bow-tie, but right now it’s still dirty from the CC feeding XD I’ll ask if there’s a free nurse to give him a dry wash…
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Oh oops sorry
I did even check the previous posts but I couldn’t find that one ahahah
As for bunny ears, I’ve found out that the best way to know how they’re feeling is to check the ears AND the back of the head. For high temperature (either fever or external heat derived) I’ll always have hot ears and hot head, so that’s a pretty good check for me.We’re going to take out the stitches in a few hours
I think I’ll ask the vet about the peeing, I wouldn’t want him to have a light UTI from all the peeing himself that happened, cause he’s starting to use his litter again, but he leaks around :/ At least his pee rash is gone. I’m thinking about booking him a trip to Lourdes =_= -
XD hehe normal vacation only involves the 15th of August Madonna, so maybe he needs a stronger blessing…
We’re back from the checkup and stitches will come out next tuesday cause one spot still needs a bit of time. Otherwise everything looks good
He’s got one bad pododermatitis spot on one heel, but we’ll wait it out and see if it gets better with the oil massages. I dared to book a short holiday for May 1st, hope he doesn’t come up with other reasons for me to stay holed up at home XD -
Back from the vet! The stitches are out, then we did bloodwork to check on e.c. (that was scheduled for march… but we know how march went).
He’s at 1,550 kg, so he lost a good 400gr since when he was discharged from the hospital, no wonder he’s eating like a pig. Only thing to solve now is one heel where he has this bad pododermatitis, I suggested to give him a padded sock, but vet said that knowing him, he’d be chewing it off in no time… so we’re on a bit of metacam for the next week and Hypermix massages. Gonna be fun to try to hold him still now that he’s fully back to satan’s wrath mode About the fur problem (vet assured me they only found fur in his stomach, no paper or other stuff), he just told me to brush him intensively with the usual angora rabbit comb and the newly acquired FURminator, then said “or we can get him naked like a sphynx cat.” (I was like “damn I love sphinx cats, let’s do it”)
I’m still somewhat anxious about this whole fur matter but I guess we just gotta truck on!
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ahah he loves Rammstein XD
Anyways, after not seeing me for almost 3 days he’s much more chilled… he resumed sleeping under my table and he even ‘played’ with his sex dolls while I was gone. He pushed out a lot of fur too! The little ear is all covered up, now he’s finishing up the rest of the head and scruff
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So here is the Little Lord, munching on his fave chicory (that sadly he can have only once every one or two months). As you can see he’s still having his bad hair month
He’s also constantly HUNGRY and sleeps/rests a lot, I guess he needs the extra calories to push out all of the new fur… His heels’ fur is completely back too and he’s super careful not to weight too much on the bad heel hopefully we’ll see some jumping soon
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Sooo… I guess this will be the final (hopefully) update on K’s furball issues!
We’re just back from the vet, he gained back almost 300gr (vet was like “holy hell how much does this rat weight? you wanna eat him anytime soon?”), his internal stitching is fine and he’s got 90% of his fur back
He also did a good job keeping his feet nail short, so he only received a bit of a trim to his front paws. Pododermatitis seems to be gone & he got his heel fluff back. The little ear is fine, the cicatrization is all nice and even, except one spot where he had the infection that is a bit thicker, but still healthy tissue. Behavioural-wise, K’s back to his ways maybe with a tad more appreciation for the good life, since he’s flopping 4-5 times a day and he never ever did that before
Again many many many many thanks to everyone for sticking to us through these past two months <3 Don't have enough words to thank you properly <3
but thats maybe a subject for a new thread. 
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