Note: If your bunny has these symptoms get them to a vet ASAP!
Banacek is very ill. His poo is kind of looking like when you blow your nose – all yellow and glicky. At first I thought he had been sick, which was kinda unbelievable because rabbits are biologically totally incapable of vomiting (no gag reflex – also why you should NEVER get their faces underwater when washing them). He has been off his food all day and listless for about 3 days, he’s usually very active but he’s just been sitting in the same spot and not even moving to go to the litter tray. He smells like children do when they wet themselves – which is a different smell to normal bunny wee.
In a human, poo that yellow color means they’ve got coeliac disease or other gluten or wheat related problems, and I was very worried about this because the Christmas treats they received from a relative did contain wheat (despite it not being digestible by bunnies) but the vet said true coeliac is actually unheard of in rabbits. I hope she’s right.
I spent half an hour cleaning the carpet last night because he’d done bunny diarrhea.
There are many types of bunny poo, and bunny diarrhea isn’t the play-doh/plasticine type stuff (that’s slightly abnormal but not dangerous, just means he’s had too many vegetables and not enough hay), it’s more watery, like if you spill a thick, creamy hot chocolate over your carpet (only it smells MUCH worse than that). True bunny diarrhea means a very, very ill rabbit who needs a vet.
We took him to the vet this afternoon and he’s now on antibiotics and critical care because they aren’t sure what’s wrong with him except they said he’s clearly quite ill, they think it’s an upper GI infection because of the mucus poo.
We had to put him in his baby hutch so we could keep an eye on him, and he’s so ill, he’s not even resisting. Usually (and the reason we made him a bigger hutch) he tries to chew his way out and would be throwing all the contents of the hutch around, pooing everywhere and stomping to show us he was displeased. Instead he’s just sitting there, in his bunny bed, not really moving. We’ve given him his antibiotics and opened the hutch to put special water with electrolyte powder into his hutch, and he hasn’t tried to escape at all, which is unheard of in our fiestiest bunny.
So we will be watching Banacek closely and feeding him fluids and critical care by syringe every 2 hours for our New Year’s Eve, but I hope the rest of you have a great evening.
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9 responses to “A Very Ill Bunny: Yellow poop!”
Get well soon, Banacek. ❤
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Thanks, I’ve passed your message onto him but he just stared into space and didn’t really respond. I think the painkillers they injected him with have sedated him a bit.
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Ha, he’s “hared straight”.
Oh, in bad taste? Sorry, I am socially inept.
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Made me laugh. But then I’ve got all the social graces of a homeless person’s shopping trolley.
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Whoaaa you are miles ahead of me chick! I’m not even classy enough for the local walks-with-shopping cart trailer park lady to ask me for a ride.
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So sorry little bunny is under the weather. 😦 Sending positive thoughts along with wishes for a Happy New Year! G-uno
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Thank you. He is currently in exactly the same spot he was in when I photographed him, still not protesting the fact that he’s in a cage for the first time in 3 years. Cleo, his girlfriend, has kept a vigil outside his hutch for a couple of hours (til she got bored and went upstairs again).
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I hope he’s feeling better soon. G-uno
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