So Thursday we gave the buns their daily vegetables like normal around 3:30. My partner noticed at 6pm that one of the boys was moving round a lot, going from his litter tray, to hunched, to flattening his tummy to the ground repeatedly. Straight away took him to emergency vets. Was told temp low and sugars high, start of GI stasis. Was given 2 gut stimulant injections and 2 pain relief. Brought him home to syringe feed.
Usually within an hour or two he perks up and starts eating and pooping. Not this time. I take him back to the emergency vets around 3am as he was literally just sitting there not doing anything and no signs of improvement. They admit him for fluids and feeding until 8am. I pick him up and take him to our usual vets at 9, where they say he is showing improvement but would benefit of another day of inpatient care, so he stays until 5pm.
I pick him up, he has started eating some herbs, and passing solid poos again. He’s going in the right direction. Sent home with oral pain relief and gut stimulant. Get him home and he is eating herbs and some treats. No hay. Not drinking. I syringe feed through the night. He seems better Saturday morning, but now has lots of very soft poo. Ring vets who give more critical care and say to keep an eye. His poo returns to normal solid, albeit smaller than usual, balls.
Throughout the days, I have noticed that he is laying down a lot, legs stretched out behind him. Initially think this is a good sign, as he is no longer hunched, and assume he is just resting after being carted to and from vets 3 times in less than 24 hours.
Sunday is much the same, he is now drinking, and eating the tiniest bit of hay, but still mainly eating everything else, herbs, forage, treats etc…
My question is, how normal is it for them to lay down so much? He is eating, pooping and drinking, he seems more energetic than he was, even got some binkies out of him yesterday. But as soon as he’s eaten, or done anything, he’s straight back into lying down. I’m not sure this if is a sign he is still in some discomfort, or whether he is just recuperating. Also struggling to get him to eat hay, usually he’s all over it. I’ve reduced his critical care feed so that he is not full, but as I say is still eating anything else offered to him, though not sure if we should stop offering anything else, but also don’t want him to not eat anything.
We have not had a bout of stasis this bad before so I’m unsure how long it can take for them to be 100% again. I am planning on calling vets again tomorrow if he still isn’t eating hay and laying down frequently but just looking for others experiences!
Pic of how he keeps laying down, it’s also unusual for him to do this in the middle of the room, usually only lays down in his pen or after doing some mega zoomies.
by LivLoveBunnies