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I really would like to diagnose what’s wrong with the Grinder’s pet rabbit. Mrs G came home Friday to find the rabbit unable to lift its head and dragging its hind legs. There was a little blood on his coat but not a lot.
The only other possible factors are a dent in his caging from the inside (same height as a rabbit running in to it) and word that there’s a fox in the neighbourhood.
After two days, the rabbit aint much better. He eats and drinks from a cup – no longer able to reach up to drink from his bottle. He struggles to keep his head up for more than a few seconds. Sometime he can get the back feet working enough to crawl a metre or two. After a short while he stops and stoops. The ears stay up and the eyes are wide open in a spooky kind of way.
I suspect he’s seen the fox, taken a bolt for his hutch and missed, resulting in some sort of neck or spinal injury. But do you think I can find any sort of clue on the net?
If he survives another few days but doesn’t improve it might be time to Google ‘pet euthanasia’.
The only other possible factors are a dent in his caging from the inside (same height as a rabbit running in to it) and word that there’s a fox in the neighbourhood.
After two days, the rabbit aint much better. He eats and drinks from a cup – no longer able to reach up to drink from his bottle. He struggles to keep his head up for more than a few seconds. Sometime he can get the back feet working enough to crawl a metre or two. After a short while he stops and stoops. The ears stay up and the eyes are wide open in a spooky kind of way.
I suspect he’s seen the fox, taken a bolt for his hutch and missed, resulting in some sort of neck or spinal injury. But do you think I can find any sort of clue on the net?
If he survives another few days but doesn’t improve it might be time to Google ‘pet euthanasia’.
posted by Grinder at 8:03 PM
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