Hi guys, I’m worrying my head off here. I’ve had my 4 month old netherland dwarf for about a month and on the morning of Dec 11th she wouldn’t touch her morning salad and instead went for the pellets. I thought that was odd so I watched her. During the day she mostly stayed hidden in her house, which I also thought was weird. When I let her out to play she ran straight to the bathroom to hide behind the toilet, then to my room to hide under the bed. She wouldn’t take a raisin, which are her favorite. She stopped eating altogether.
I brought her in to a vet around 4pm that same day and he prescribed me probiocin to replenish the good bacteria in her stomach. At least at the moment, he didn’t think there was any GI stasis happening.
Then at around 10pm she started grinding her teeth, a sure sign of pain. I ran her into an emergency pet clinic but since they didn’t see rabbits all that often, the best they could do was take some x-rays and give her a shot of some medication that helped her gut move along.
The next morning at 7 I ran around town looking for someone who could see a rabbit. Finally I ended up at a vet where I had to drop her off because they were booked already. I got a call a few hours later to come pick her up–she had been pooping and peeing at least. The vet said that she couldn’t see any blockages and sent me home with Critical Care and Metacam.
She’s still so sluggish. It’s impossible to feed her the Critical Care by myself because she’s sooo squirmy and tries her hardest to defy me. Luckily my mom is here with me, but not for more than a day or two. We were able to get some Critical Care into her but the whole ordeal has completely rattled me. I can’t get her the food/medication she needs without the help of another person, and family isn’t close by to just come over at the drop of a hat.
How could things go so wrong just after a month? It had been going so well I thought. One day she was bouncing all over the living room, the next she’s almost dying. Is this going to be a chronic thing? I’m terrified. I love her so much but if this is going to keep happening I don’t know what I’ll do. I’m so worried that she won’t get better and I have limited funds to keep bringing her in to a vet.
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