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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A Baytril — Help!

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    • JackRabbit
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        My three buns are great about meds and have always just licked them from the syringe. However, Kieko is on Baytril (strawberry flavored but smells nasty; compounded at vet’s office) and its so watery that it’s impossible to give her this way. She’ll take it on lettuce, but runs off the lettuce too and I don’t think she’s getting the full dose. Is it supposed to be so watery?

        I’ve heard about mixing it with other things, banana or baby food (banana, carrot for example). Exactly how do you mix it with banana or baby food (please be detailed!) and then how do you get it into the bunny **WITHOUT** force feeding if possible? How do you make sure they get the full dose?

        I know this sounds silly, but I’ve never had this problem before with my buns!

        Thanks!


      • Sarita
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          Are you shaking it well? It could be watery because of the dosage. I’ve gotten some medicines that are compounded that are more liquid and some that were more thick…it was dependent on the dosage of the medication and the mg’s of the pill.

          If you do the banana what you can do is try to hollow out a bit kind of like a cup and try putting the liquid in the center if she is a banana eater. I’ve never done this but I’ve seen it on a video or something before and it sounded like a good idea.


        • Megabunny
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            Oh poor Keiko. Baytril is awful no matter how they disguise it. Gus gets marshmallow flavor and we still do battle every night over it, followed by something yummy.


          • JackRabbit
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              Megabunny — so you don’t mix it with anything? I’m going to try the banana cup thing that Sarita mentioned, and maybe even try mashing some with banana. I’m making a mess with it trying to put the runny stuff on bites of lettuce! I’m not sure having a talk with Kieko would help — when we had to do CC with her, I think I ended up wearing more than we got in her and hubby was furious that we couldn’t get a little bunny to sit still and “unclench”! Kieko refuses to be burritoed. Fingers crossed that banana works.


            • Megabunny
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                No, I feel kinda bad, but I tried mixing it with juice and that did nothing. All he has to do is smell it or hear me shake the bottle and he’s off! I tuck him in between my legs on the floor and back him up so he’s in, like, one of those cattle chutes, then, bending my head upside down I jam the syringe in and it forces his mouth open enough. to get the syringe in.


              • JackRabbit
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                  You lost me before “tuck”. I’m still in “catch the bunny” stage. Little bunnies are FAST! It doesn’t help that the syringe is flat on the tip end and doesn’t fit down in the med bottle.

                  I just got back from the store. Got a bunch of bananas, baby food bananas and banana/strawberry. I have canned pumpkin if I need to pull out the big guns. Hubby is off next week so the Baytril will be his problem next week, twice a day!


                • Megabunny
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                    I forgot how fast smaller rabbits move ha ha. Twice a day? I only have to give it once a day. Apparently it varies. Sounds like a stupid syringe. What the heck?
                    Some tech at my vet is really on the ball. I’ve had Baytril in a little bottle with a tip on it, but I used to have to unscrew the top and stick the syringe down in the bottle and it would be all messy. But the most recent tech cut the tip off just enough that the syringe fits on and I suck it up, BRILLIANT!!!

                    Is this for an ear infection?


                  • JackRabbit
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                      No, for a mild infection in her tear duct. Oral Baytril 2x per day and antibiotic eye drops 2x per day. At least she takes the eye drops well.

                      Kieko is fast, but her direction is usually somewhat predictable. Kieko would be a pretty good baseball player. Marlee is faster and her direction is completely random and she can change direction in a split second. Marlee would make one helluva lacrosse player. Moshi is fast at bunny 500’s but that’s it. Too many distractions for him, and being “hearing impaired”, he doesn’t hear it coming. Moshi would need to stick to something like playing cards or backgammon! He is a wonderful dancer though!


                    • Megabunny
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                        Gus is a couch potato


                      • JackRabbit
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                          Gus and Moshi should play cards sometime!


                        • Megabunny
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                            Ha ha It’s a date!


                          • RabbitPam
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                              You might want to catch Kieko with a towel just to wrap the wiggling. Then try administering the syringe into the side of the mouth, not straight on at the front. Usually, if you can get the tip between the teeth, you can get a big squirt in there and it goes down. I think most vets give a generous dosage knowing that much of it lands on the floor, in fur, your lap, etc. But syringes from the side are always easier.

                              I also used to carve a little hole into a slice of apple, making like a little hat or stopper that you can put back into the hole after you’ve put the medicine in there. If your bunny eats the apple with the piece back on it, it should get the med down too.


                            • dewey
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                                I have given my bunny Dewey Baytril a lot lately. My doctor flavors it with Maple Syrup. He hates it.

                                I do have to shake the Baytril a lot before I draw it up in the syringe. There is a lot of sediment in the bottom of the bottle.

                                Dewey also hates the burrito. He will turn his head and refuse to take the syringe. We have reached an o.k. solution. I put him on a small elevated table covered with an old towel. We go face to face. He will initially refuses the syringe, but eventually he relents. That means he holds still while I slide the syringe in the side of his mouth and shoot it.

                                We had a bit of a struggle with Baytril ear drops, but the same procedure.

                                I didn’t think the table thing would work since we failed with the burrito, but one night it was my only option. Maybe Dewey is a bit odd, but this is how we do medicine and critical care.


                              • Cottontail
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                                  I had to get creative to give Pete CC (the only thing so far he won’t eat from a syringe, or anyway else for that matter). We ended up making a kind of pumpkin-soup, with ripped up raisins in it. there was a lot more liquid than the original mix, but he would try to get the raisins and end up lapping up all the CC-pumpkin mix with it. We ended up using 2 or 3 raisins and cutting them each into 3-4 pieces so they’d be throughout the soup; and it worked well. Maybe something like that may work for Kieko since they seem to be equally fussy bunnies?


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                                    My Bucky (8 year old French Lop) was on Baytril recently. The burrito was a no go – he hated it – so I ended up putting the meds in fruit puree, then rolling the puree in leafy green veg. Worked for us, but YMMV!


                                  • kirstyol
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                                      The only way I can get Bramble to take medication is to mash a banana in a small dish, mix the medicine in it and leave it next to him, he eventually takes it. I sort of roughly mash the banana so that its not totally liquid, sort of lumpy and it usually works with him. he wont take anything out of a syringe anymore since he learned how to avoid swallowing it after his neuter.


                                    • JackRabbit
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                                        So far, I’ve continued to put it on bites of green leaf lettuce and she’s taking it (she’s actually gotten pretty excited about being hand-fed the lettuce). I will definitely try the banana or apple trick if the M&Ms ever have to take Baytril. They are much pickier! Moshi was wise to the lettuce trick after one bite with simethicone!

                                        Thanks for your help everyone!


                                      • Megabunny
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                                          I may try the mashed banana trick. I tried the “hide it in the middle of the banana” trick, and Gus caught on to that as soon as he ate through the outer part of the banana. It’s hard to hide 1 1/2 cc of the stuff


                                        • JackRabbit
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                                            Wow! I’m just trying to get .4 ml in Kieko consistently. I guess big bunny, big dose!


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                                              I didn’t read through everyone’s responses. Does she like apple? If it’s really runny, you could simply mix it into some unsweetened apple sauce.

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