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- 11/16/2016 at 3:26 AM
  sarah_ann
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  Hey,
  
  Patch was castrated on Friday. I had to take him to the emergency vets on Sunday as he wasn’t eating very much and wasn’t passing faeces. He was also quite swollen and bruised. He was given a few injections, given oral meds for me to administer at home every 12 hours (antibiotics and gut stimulant). I have been to the vets every night since, and he has had injectable pain relief. His eating has improved and his droppings are finally getting to a better size and shape, however he now has an infection and an abscess forming. I am struggling giving him the oral meds. He was an adoption rabbit and was a bit skittish and aggressive to begin with and he grunts and is trying to bite me every time I try to give him the meds and it is stressing him out so much. He was so much calmer in the vets! I am thinking I may just get an antibiotic jab at the vets everyday instead. Has anyone experienced this?
  
  Thanks, Sarah x
- 11/16/2016 at 5:11 AM
  Vienna Blue in France
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  Will he not take the meds wrapped up in a banana ball or mixed in with juice ?
- 11/16/2016 at 7:01 AM
  sarah_ann
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  I haven’t tried anything like that yet. He really likes his Fibreplex! So I just gave him some of that and then shot the meds in after. Seemed to take them OK. Thank god for palatable meds!
- 11/17/2016 at 2:31 AM
  sarah_ann
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  He is now snubbing the fibreplex and I have tried mushing the meds up with banana to no avail. All he will eat at the moment is hay which doesn’t help when trying to give meds. Any ideas???
- 11/17/2016 at 3:11 AM
  Bam
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  It’s great that he’s eating hay.. Can you get someone to help you give him the antibiotics by syringe? Sometimes a bunny will eat meds mixed with baby fruit- or berry puree. It’s not always working though. I’ve never been able to give any med except by syringe, with the bun in a burrito.
  
  Injections can be given if he absolutely refuses.
- 11/17/2016 at 3:24 AM
  Roberta
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  What antibiotic ? Enrotril and Baytril taste nasty to buns, your best bet is to syringe it straight in his mouth and give him a sweet treat after.
- 11/17/2016 at 3:30 AM
  sarah_ann
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  Baytril. I try every day to syringe it into his mouth but I can’t keep hold of him, even wrapped in a towel bunny burrito style. He just goes crazy
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