The Misadventures of Bushel - Part 1

This is a pic of our baby bunny boy, Bushel!
He's a Dwarf Lionhead rabbit, and he's a funny little chap.
You can muss his hair up on his head so it looks like he's got a mohawk. Anyway...
He got sick on Friday night, he was behaving out of character and ran away under our bed and stayed there for awhile. I went and checked on him and he was hunching up and stretching out all the time, and I could see his stomach was bloated and raised. Somehow he had developed Gatrointestinal Stasis (GI Stasis), which is a slowdown of instestinal movement leading to a buildup of gas caused by bacteria. His little belly had swollen up to double it's size, and he was in a lot of pain. He wouldn't come out from under the bed, so I had to pull it out from the wall, and got him into the spare room where I gave him some pats to calm him down. I tried massaging his stomach to help clear the gas through his system, but it didn't seem to help. I put him in his cage thinking I could leave him until the morning to take him to the vet, but he just sat there really lethargically, and then began making a weird gurgling noise, like little burps, but it didn't sound good. I then called the missus in NZ to ask for help, and she said to get him to the vet! So, at 3am on Saturday morning, I put Bushel in his carry box, with a towel and some hay, called some dodgy mini-cab company and off we went to the emergency vet clinic! To be continued...