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Re: Poorly bunny - not eating enough, losing weight.
Thanks for all your suggestions, advice and kind words. We've been really busy looking after Clover this week.
Kammie - that poor bunny, Charlie. All I know is that it's a antibiotic used on cattle and she had one once a week for three weeks as the vet's final attempt to cure poor Clover.
Frags and Shortbackandsides - I hope the teeth issues aren't through bad breeding as our other bunny, Dusty, came from the same family.
AmyCruick - my parnter has done a great job in nursing the bunny - cleaning her eyes, wiping her nose and syringe feeding her. What was worng with the bunny you were nursing?
Emzybabe - What medicines do you know on amazon? Our last bun had a blocked tear duct but the vet wasn't keen on giving her an injection to sort that out unless they were gonna do her teeth at the same time. In the end it was a terrible lower end infection that took over poor little Violet - she refused to eat and the vet put her to sleep (that was only this summer; she was a gorgeous Dutch and was 5 years old. Clover is 4.5 yrs, we rescued her three years ago).
Helebelina - welcome - I'm fairly new too, but everyone is so friendly and helpful and there's gorgeous bunny pics and stories to read bout buns - love it!
And how brave working at a vets Kammie - it would break my heart seeing all the poor pets, but I bet it's lovely when they recover.
Thanks everyone. Great news is that Clover's eyes are looking more alert (one is less watery) but one was nearly closed. Her nose is less bunged (my partner loves picking her bogies!) and she's coughing and sneezing far less. She's hopping round the house more and I was SOOOO HAPPY when she came bounding up to me at the door when I cam home from a long day at work yesterday. Warmed my heart right up!
Back to vets for cattle antibiotic number two of three on Monday, hope she keeps up the promising signs.... I'll let you all know (in the meantime I could do with my 5th attempt to litter train her - she loves her new life in the house, so I'll guess she'll have to stay now!)
jemma
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