Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Misadventures of Bushel - Part 2


I got Bushel to the vet after 3am, and the vet checked him over and seemed to know about this condition in rabbits, and gave a good old feel around his stomach, which I'm not sure he liked, but he behaved very well. She recommended keeping him for 12 hours for observation, and would give him some injections for the pain and a muscle relaxant to help the gas blockage pass. I left him there and got home about 4am, and it was really sad coming home to an empty rabbit cage, as he is always chewing at the bars to be let out whenever I get home. I only slept a few hours, as I was expecting a call from the vets the next morning to tell me how he was going. Just before 9am they called to say he was fine and that his bloated belly had gone down by a quarter and that I could pick him up at 3pm. That afternoon, the vet said he had started eating again, which is a good sign of normal rabbit behaviour, so I took him back to get him back into his normal routine. Unfortunately I had to give him some antiobiotics for the next five days, which had to be administered orally! Now, Bushel doesn't like being picked up or man-hadled at the best of times, but being held down and having a plastic syringe with some yucky, sticky liquid shoved down your gob wasn't fun, for him or me! Eventually I replaced this twice daily procedure with putting the 0.3ml of medicine on a small slice of banana, which he eats up no worries! Who would think rabbits would eat banana? I can't see them climbing up banana trees in the wild? Anyway, after 5 days of medicine and much TLC from his worried father, he is back to his usual self and is eating, drinking and pooing like he's going to enter a eating, drinking and pooing-a-thon. As for why he got sick, I still have no idea to a specific cause, but it was a terrible couple of hours when I thought I was going to lose him! My baby!!!
P.S. The picture of him above isn't him dead (obviously), but is of him being a bit sleepy after having some pats.

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