Our rabbit is almost 8 years old and up until now has been very healthy and active with no health problems except for some stomach trouble once. A few months ago, she started sneezing multiple times a day but with no discharge. The vet prescribed some medicine, which didn’t help. Sadly, there are no real rabbit savvy vets in our immediate area. The sneezing didn’t improve but it also didn’t get worse.
A few weeks ago, she suddenly started eating less and started to look very uncomfortable. We took her to the vet and they gave her some nose and stomach medicine. The medicine didn’t seem to help, but once it ran out she seemed to be back to normal. After that, she seemed to be fine for about a week and now it seems like something might be bothering her again. She now has an audible clicking noise in her noise when she breathes sometimes. And I sometimes hear her grinding her teeth while she is lying down, something I don’t think I really heard much before. However, she does seem to have a normal appetite and still gets very excited for both food and attention. A few days later, and she now has a very strange poop problem. She has started pooping everywhere and anywhere randomly, both inside and outside her cage. Her bottom is also very dirty with poop stuck to it. It seems like she hasn’t been cleaning it or has been unable to clean it due to the poop being very small and kind of hard. We’ve been cleaning it about once per day. She does still use the litter box for pee and sometimes poop. Maybe she can’t control it? It’s very hard to tell. Her diet hasn’t really changed at all, but she did eat a few kernels of corn on the cob that she got to by mistake recently. We brought her to the vet and they thought it could be some kind of lingering nose infection. Now she’s taking two types of stomach medicines and a new nose drop medicine. It’s only been a full day since starting the medicine, so we haven’t seen any results yet. Again, she does still seem moving around, eating most of her food and still gets very excited when we feed her or pet her. She still does look uncomfortable in some way at times; sometimes she leans her head backwards when she lies down. We’re supposed to go back late next week for a blood test or x-ray if the situation hasn’t improved. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Thanks in advance!
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