pastuerella or coincidental illnesses; update sepsis

[DogCatMom]

I finally convinced my husband after he saw her throwing herself around the cage that we needed to call the vet about her ear.

... I can try to find potassium salt instead and put it in the mix but she'd probably prefer a banana. Finally I was going to use good unfiltered, live ACV but I'm not sure how much. She eats a small mug of critical care a day. Maybe 1 tbsp and hope she doesn't dislike the taste? She goes absolute nuts for apple banana critical care once you get her started eating it and her head positioned right.

Morton's Lite Salt(tm) is reduced sodium salt with potassium taking up the "slack." I use it regularly when I just must have a taste of salt in my food (my normal anti-migraine diet = <1,000 mg Na/day). I bought the current container at Safeway, so if this is what you're looking for, it may be easier to find than you had feared.

Poor little bunny girl!!!

 

[akane]

She made it through another night and we have another vet appointment in a couple hours for the ear and her pain management. This is my expensive go to vet when I want the best. Thankfully my mom hates to see animals suffer and agreed to pay. What I paid for exam and treatment at the nearby farm vet is what it's going to cost me to walk in the door of this vet.

__________ Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:31 pm __________

We have poop! Small poop but at least her digestive tract is working. She's also eating her critical care off the spoon by herself. I just piled it on the spoon and left her with it in the cage.

__________ Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:17 am __________

The exotics vet put her on oral smz tmp along with the injection she got a few days ago. The staff at the other clinic said she couldn't have another antibiotic but I'll go with my exotics vet. She also had us switch to liquid ibuprofen instead of aspirin. Amako wouldn't eat her critical care tonight but she's been eating all sorts of veggies and hay. No idea how she's eating hay but it disapears when we aren't looking. I left with a pile of hay, 3 radishes with the tops eaten off them, and a small pile of pellets and we'll see if she can feed herself a normal diet and stop the critical care.

Oh I found this great article on treating bacterial head tilt.
http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/tilt.html

 

[MaggieJ]

Atta girl, Amako! Hang in there!

Thanks for posting that link, Akane. It should be helpful to a lot of people.

 

[akane]

Amako's giving up. You know that point you can just see in an animal that they don't want to continue. She's headed there. She's extremely lethargic and just sits with her head in the corner. Although the pellets and some of the hay dissapeared last night. We need to get pain killers and fluids in to her. No one's given us a prescription pain killer and Amako is sitting there squeaking, grunting, and grinding teeth from the pain despite otc options. She also hasn't had any straight water this whole time. It's all come from critical care (which she's no longer eating) and veggies.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Oh no!

In another thread Paintrider posted about giving Pedialyte sub-cutaneously to a Parvo pup.

saving-your-pup-from-parvo-t18538.html

I would think that fluids would be very helpful to Amako at this point and may help her to turn around if you don't think she is too far gone and suffering too much already to try it.

 

[akane]

I thought about giving her some gatorade we had around for electrolytes and energy but we went with plain water. We syringed enough in to get her interested and then held a bottle up to her for like half an hour. We hung it on the side of the cage but I don't know if she can find it. We might have to hold it up to her several times a day. We also ordered metacam with free shipping off petfooddirect.<br /><br />__________ Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:40 pm __________<br /><br />Someone suggested dramamine for the dizziness from the head tilt that causes her to go rolling everywhere and risk injuring herself. We had some pills (I will try to get liquid) and gave her half of one. Now she's getting smz tmp, liquid ibuprofen until the metacam arrives, and dramamine along with her 2 week lasting injection of convenia.

 

[Miss M]

I sure hope the poor bun can pull through! :clover:

The only injury Pinto, our wry-neck bunny, has sustained is a couple of torn claws. Hopefully, Amako won't hurt herself either.