Foaming Chicken posted:

UGH

My stupid rabbit bit the tip off of a plastic (needleless) syringe as I was I giving him oral antibiotics. I tried to get it out of his mouth and had zero success. He just get grinding away, getting more and more pissed off at me.

Please tell me my stupid rabbit is not going to die.

alucinor posted:

Apropos of nothing, I have a bun at the vet being diagnosed for head tilt. This should be fun.

Bean posted:

So I walked into the room today, and Camille was head first into my tea. She got so pissed when I took her cup away.

I figured there wasn't anything too bad in a cup of caffene free, sugar free tea, especially for an animal known for stealing drinks of alcohol. (Pepper will cut you for a sip of wine. Of course, she never gets any.) A quick Googling later revealed:

http://www.rabbit.org/health/liver.html

Apparently green tea helps with a bunny's liver. I called my vet, and they're curious too, so they were going to look into it and call me back. Opinions?

Camille's so enamored with my tea that it would be neat if it were true.

Windy posted:

My bun will lick my eyelids. I thought it was cute at first but I think she really just wants to eat my eyeballs. I don't let her near my face now until after shes eaten, just in case.

justFaye posted:

One of our buns managed to find and eat part of a Hershey's Kiss. About 1/3 of it has been chewed away, so in theory he ingested that much. Should we call the vet first thing in the morning and go in for an emergency appointment? His energy level is normal and he's currently munching on veg (quite excitedly, as usual). He would have eaten it sometime in the last five hours.

alucinor posted:

Depends on the rabbit. 23" is more than adequate for one of my big fatties; 48" is barely high enough for one of my agile little girls. You may just have to plan on replacing the first one if it's too small.

Make sure the gate you get doesn't have wide gaps between the slats that she can potentially stick her head through.

dopaMEAN posted:

This is what I'm looking at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002JETNS/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

So maybe thin plastic slats? It's really cheap though... I'll see what else I can find for a similar price.

Okay, looks like I found something more appropriate: http://www.amazon.com/North-States-Industries-4610-Supergate/dp/B0002JETOC/ref=pd_sim_ba_2
32 inches, with wire panel, rather than plastic.

Glasgow posted:

In not-bitching news: A local family had their house burn down early this morning. They got one cat out, who panicked and bolted, but they know he's alive and hope he comes home, the other they later found alive in the wreckage of the garage. Both dogs died. A firefighter in the house somehow managed to catch their panicked bunny and bring him out unharmed, but he wouldn't eat or poop all day. The family can't afford to take him to a vet right now, obviously, so came in to the rescue today hoping we might have GI stasis meds. Some customers and volunteers gave them hay, carefresh, a litterbox, a carrier, an ex-pen, and some papaya. We put the bunny in a pen with some hay and gave him a belly rub to see if we could loosen him up. We watched him eat a bit and hop around, and prayed for him to poop. The family took their donated stuff out to the car and myself and one of the directors stood watch and finally...what's that? A poop! We open the door and cheer "He pooped!" The family starts to cry and hug everyone in the building. Best poop ever.

Bunway Airlines posted:

Did you steal my rabbits?

notsoape posted:

I hate posting about the meat herd itt but I saw something today that might be of note to you guys, so I hope you don't mind me posting about it

I was doing the food round and gave a bowl of pellets to one of my does, Ditto (2yr old English Spot). I went away to the shed to get some hay, and when I came back I noticed that she was behaving a little weirdly. She was sitting up on her haunches, waving her arms in the air (as if she were cleaning her nose, but not touching her nose iyswim). Looking a little closer, I noticed there was froth dripping from her mouth. Then, suddenly, she made a very definite vomiting noise and a bunch of saliva shot out. She looked a little startled, but seemed to be 'back to normal' so, after I'd established she wasn't going to drop dead on the spot, I went back inside to google what the gently caress just happened (especially since I'd always read that rabbits were incable of vomiting). This page came up, which was very interesting. This quote in particular -


- was pretty similar to what I had observed. I think she was definitely choking, and vomited to clear her airways.

I've isolated Ditto from the rest of the herd, in completely fresh bedding so I can keep track of poops (everything seemed to be normal in her own hutch though, no tiny dry poops or diarhea or anything). Her butt is clean and normal. When it's light out tomorrow I'm going to take a look in her mouth to see if there is anything going on dentally that might have caused excess saliva that she then choked on (although she is eating normally and has not lost condition). If (touch wood) she continues as normal and doesn't display any further weird symptoms I'm going to assume it was some pellet morsel causing a breathing obstruction.

It was totally surreal hearing and watching her vomit though, when I'd always assumed that was impossible for rabbits. Anyone else witneassed anything along these lines?

Fenarisk posted:

Part of the issue is that moving out of the city isn't an option since my wife teaches for CPS, and the one bedrooms we've seen anywhere within 30 minutes of where my wife works either A) won't take rabbits and our one cat would be an extra $500 deposit, or B) one bedroom means the cat will always be harassing and stressing the buns.

Bean posted:

Camille does that too, but there's a tiny squeak with it.

I've oddly never met a rabbit who got pissy when you clean their cage. My old bunny simply did not give a gently caress. I wait until Camille and Pepper sneak out of the cage, but while I'm cleaning, they hop back in and eat all the fallen hay. They're helping.

Kidney Stone posted:

We've got 2 bunnies (and 3 cats) in the household - have no idea of their sex, but they are of the same sex, as none of them are spayed/neutered and nothing have come out of them humping.

Kidney Stone posted:

alucinor posted:

There's not necessarily a need to diagnose it if it's not otherwise bothering her. I have an older girl bun who has a slightly blocked duct which gets totally blocked and gives her a weepy eye four or five times a year. The first time, the vet flushed it; the time after that he said it was probably the result of scarring from an old infection. He told me I could just let it be, but to clean her face if it started matting her fur, and to come back if the color/intensity/persistance of the drainage changed.

Foaming Chicken posted:

He died in my arms before I could get him to the vet.

luscious posted:

Finally got the Panacur (banana) and she looooves it. We are getting really good at medicine / food / water time. I'll spare you all the details of angling her / whatever else (but if you do have a bunny with head tilt message me and we will talk okay) but I will tell you that she loves to be held / cradled by me while she lays on her back and gives herself a full bunny bath. Apparently trancing doesn't apply when a bunny has head tilt. I rest her against me and after she is done eating she takes her time to use me to give herself the leverage to clean up. She even rubs her cheeks down with her paws.

Still moving around, eating more, drinking more, seems alert and aware, broke out of the cage earlier today.... still has the power of Satan on her side.