So, I haven’t been in here for a long while because of grad school, but now I need everyone’s help because of a very sad maybe-emergency. This morning, one of my bunnies passed away. He hadn’t been eating and was lethargic yesterday, so I brought him to the vet and he was hospitalized. Unfortunately, everything progressed extremely quickly and he didn’t make it through the night. It was incredibly sudden. However, now I’m absolutely terrified that something is going to happen to his bunny friend.
Humphrey isn’t quite himself today– he seems a little listless, and is cleaning himself neurotically and flopping a lot. I assume this is because his bunny friend is gone and he doesn’t know why, but I’m worried that it might be medical rather than emotional. Last time I cleaned his litterbox was Wednesday night, and it was filled with poop, but I’m not entirely sure how old. I emptied his litterbox to make sure he was pooping today I think sometime between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm (everything is a little hazy today, you might imagine), and he does not appear to have pooped since then (it is now 6:15 pm here), which has me extremely worried.
However, his tummy seems normal texture to me (Perry’s was not at all when I took him to the vet), he does not seem to be in pain or hunching or anything (in fact, he did some binkying a few minutes ago), and he has been eating normally (in fact, ravenously– greens, hay, pellets, a “popsicle” made of parsley, water and a drop of pineapple juice, a timothy cube, etc). I also saw him eat his cecals also sometime between 11:30 am and 1:00 pm-ish– for all I know he pooped right before I changed his litterbox and is now just not pooping because I’m stressing him out with all my watching and prodding and worrying.
Regardless, I’m on high alert right now and I really don’t know if I could handle it if something happened to Humphrey, too. Part of me wants to just bring him right to the vet and say “fix him now,” but part of me is worried that if he’s stressed out that’ll only further upset him. On top of that, I’m a little gun-shy about going to the vet right now– yesterday was something of a trial. My real vet is now the only doctor at her clinic, and so they’re closed all weekend. So I went to VESCONE, where the vet told me “to bring him home and watch him” which sounded very wrong to me, so I waited an hour and then called them again and told them he didn’t seem any better; they told me to go to Angell Memorial, so I called Angell and explained and they said that they had no exotic specialist on duty, so I called the Weymouth VCA and asked abotu Dr. Dyer since my mom’s bunny has seen him before, but he wasn’t on duty… but they said they could possibly get him if it was dire, so I drove the 40 or so minutes to get there and deposited Perry with them and they seemed to know what they were doing but whether they did or did not Perry didn’t make it. Most of the emergency vets around here are only ‘eh’ with rabbits, and I no longer feel I can trust VESCONE and don’t know if either Angell or the Weymouth VCA ‘s rabbit person is on duty, and both of those are fairly long drives, so I don’t want to subject Humphrey to that if I don’t have to.
So basically, should I take him to a vet (if I can find one with a bunny person on right now) now and try to nip anything in the bud, or should I administer home care and go buy some simethecone or something similar to give him? Should I just watch since he’s still eating and responsive?
I don’t want my Humphrey to die, too….