to eat or not to eat is the question..lol…

[Carolyn]

So I kind of have a funny story about cookie.

 

My rabbit cookie is just under a year old, she is a very active rabbit. On Friday Cookie was her normal playful self and eating like a little pig as always.

 

Saturday morning, Cookie wasn’t her normal self. When I put her in the hallway to play she sat at the end, by my bed room where the cool air was coming from the air conditioner, I figured she was hot, it was going to be a hot day. When I put her back in her cage she didn’t even look at her breakfast. I figured it was the weather; the air had only been on for an hour so the apartment wasn’t cooled off yet or a noise or something was bothering her. We went on with our day, keeping an eye on her hoping she eats something.

 

At 3:30, She still hadn’t eaten anything so we call the vet to see if the rabbit vet was working today But she had the day off, The other vets in the area was closed so if we called it would have been an emergency appointment and we really didn’t want to pay for it. Then our vets’ office called back and said they can give us some Critical care for rabbits to see if we can get her to eat. If not then to get her to a vet’s first thing in the morning.

 

So we went and got the stuff for cookie, and when we got home, made the stuff up for her. Guess what she started to eat, Very little, so I syringed some of the critical care into Cookies mouth so she had something little more on her tummy then the little bit of mint she just ate.

 

So we gave our rabbits there nightly veggies, Cookie picked at her but didn’t really eat much. So I asked my boyfriend if I should give her a little more of the critical care before we go to bed so we know she has something on her stomach, As we sat here discussing it she started to eat again…..kind of funny…almost like she knows I’m coming with that stuff again to put in her mouth so she is eating again….lol…she must of not liked it.

 

Hopefully it was just a heat thing and she’ll be fine for the rest of the weekend……of course we well be keeping a close eye on her.

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[Deleted User]

lol, awww is she okay now?

[MimzMum]

Oh how darling she is! A rex, huh? I just adopted a mini-rex this week. I hope Cookie is feeling better soon!

[Carolyn]

Well Cookie seem to back to herself this morning.   She has eatten all her veggies and pellets sometime in the night.  This morning she is active again.  Playing with her toys and waiting for her play time. Of course I’ll be still keeping a very close eye on her today to make sure she ok.

It’s scarry to go though something like that.  So I don’t know if it was just from the heat yesturday,or if her tummy was upset, or she was just upset about somthing.  Crazy rabbits.

 I have two min rex, Cookie and Scamper,  They are very active, and always looking for trouble…=-)…

[Hedi]

I have one minirex that does this more and more often. But I think it is just gas. I give her GasX thru a syringe and usually w/ in an hour or so she is back to normal. If the Gas X doesnt work then I willl use the Critical Care but it freaks my little girl out so bad I avoid it if I can.

[MimzMum]

So do mini rexes have stomach ailments often? This might be something I should watch out for with Fiver.

[Carolyn]

I don’t know if it common for min rex’s to have tummy issues. I’ve only had my rabbits go off there food three times. As explained above was cookies issue. Scamper my other min rex is sentive, he gets upset easy, and well go off his food. But it never lasted as long as cookie’s did.

I try and stay away the foods that could cause gas for rabbits, just to advoid a potential problem.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Cute rabbit! I’m so glad cookie’s eating now-that’s great the vet’s office was thinking and phoned you back about the critical care

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