Hello everybody,
I have a female bunny (Belier) with 1 year and 10 months, she came to us when she was 7 weeks old. Her name is Tiki (It is read Teekee in my language). The name means “Candy” in my autist nephew language. So we named her that, so he could be able to call her.
I decided to make this topic to share my story, i’ve been reading this forum for almost 1 year, however on the past month i’ve been spam reading it since Tiki got sick.
Tiki is a very happy bunny, she lives inside my house and in the summer goes out and jumps like crazy, inside she loves to destroy his cardboard safehouse, she’s always running around us rubbing her chest in everything she finds, she loves to sprint from her room to the living room . She only gets caged (it’s a big cage) at night and during work hours. However 4 weeks ago she left a blood drop in the urine which got us kind of worried but it never happened again.
1 week later, when we got home her litter place was very very red, we couldn’t tell if it was that red urine or actual blood. We went to the vet and he prescribed an anti-inflammatory and gave us a syringe to collect a blood sample.
She didn’t drop any blood for another entire week. She kept eating, drinking running and doing everything as usual.
During a Sunday, she started stomping their back legs as usual when we are not giving her attention, when we looked back, the entire floor was filled with blood, we took an entire syringe of it (8mg) and cleaned the rest. We took the blood to the vet but he told us that what he asked for was a urine sample and not a blood sample.
We got really pissed off and went to another vet on the next day, an animal hospital vet, this new vet did an ultra-sound, took some blood samples and urine samples, much more professional in my opinion.
After the ultra-sound it was found that she had an uterus infection and that the only way to save her was to perform a spay. This was on last Friday (April 8th).
Tiki came home with antibiotics and the vet gave her a pain-control injection.
On this night she stopped eating, drinking, peeing and pooping, she didn’t want to move from the couch and her teeth were shaking
During the night i didn’t know what to do, i was afraid she wouldn’t survive if she didn’t eat, so i used the syringe the doctor gave me to administer the anti-inflammatory and used it to “force feed” her with water, she took it willingly 3 full syringes (8mg x 3), so it was not actually force feeding. 1 hour later she still wouldn’t eat so i made a pellet, orange juice and carrot paste and she once again took it willingly. As soon as the vet opened i took her in and she was put into IV. She had a profound anaemia…and a very very low platelet count so she couldn’t be spayed or the risks were too high for her.
The vet suggested to perform a blood transfusion on Saturday night and fortunately it went all ok. The next day (Sunday) she went into surgery to be spayed immediately.
The spay went all well, Tiki was a beautiful girl and behaved very well during anaesthesia. The doctor saved the uterus for us to see it and it was so different (the right side from the left), the right side, the one that had the infection was 4 times the size of the other and had a blackish color.
After the spay she didn’t want to eat at all, we went to the vet everyday to visit her (she stayed at the Hospital since Saturday) but she still wouldn’t eat. Doctors had to force feed her Critical Care everyday with a syringe and were getting worried because she didn’t have any appetite for 3 days in a row.
Finally yesterday i took her home to her room and to my surprise she started eating everything and back to destroying her cardboard house again we were so happy!!
She is still recovering now from all what she’s been through but she is much better than on that fatidical Friday. She still does not eat the pellets but she is eating a lot of hay, grapes, oregano, parsley and drinking water. In your experience, does it take long to eat the pellets again?
Sorry for the long text but it was actually some veryyyy resumed 4 weeks.
Moral of the story, if you ever see blood in your rabbits urine go straight to the hospital and never go to the next-door vet, find a specialized vet.
I’ve spent over 1500$/€ to fix her but i’m so glad she is ok!
Here’s a pic of her normal self:
and another when receiving IV:
Thanks all!