Pet Rabbit is sick...Help/Advice Needed

[stanknuckle]

My children have two pet rabbits and one of them is dribbling from the mouth, running in circles, crashing into fences and not eating that much and has shaking paws.

The other rabbit just eats and eats and has grown a lot bigger than its sister. They are bother the same age as they came from the same litter. The other rabbit appears healthy. Both live in the same cage.

I do not know what is wrong with the rabbit, and I would appreciate your help with diagnosing its illness.

John

[Jeremy Crockett]

I'm just gonna take a wild guess and say "Rabies".

[TheDarkReaver]

fire up the grill.

[Jeremy Crockett]

Hmmm, I may have been correct after all.

http://www.animalhealthchannel.com/r...symptoms.shtml

[Febs]

I was thinking the same thing. If I were you, I would keep that rabbit away from your children and get it immediate veterinary attention.

[vbsurfer3001]

Sounds like seizures, maybe it's epileptic, do bunnies get epilepsy?

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Could be epilepsy, or possibly rabbit fever?

Rabies is a possibility, are the rabbits kept together? If so the rabid one will probably try and attack the other one ?

Either way, call a vet, and dont get too close to it, Rabies still kills alot of people each year.

[iamlowsound]

I nick-named my sisters rabbit stu, I suggest you do the same.

lowsound

[slugworth]

Rabies is very rare in rabbits. Sounds more like it's ingested something poisonous or possibly an infection. You need to get it to the vet straight away.

[iamlowsound]

Originally Posted by slugworth

Rabies is very rare in rabbits. Sounds more like it's ingested something poisonous or possibly an infection. You need to get it to the vet straight away.

$100 vet bill for a $15 rabbit?

lowsound

[slugworth]

I don't know what kinds of insects, bugs, and what-not you have down there in Oz, but I know some of them can be quite nasty. Maybe the rabbit has been bitten or stung by something. A spider, or wasp perhaps?

[slugworth]

Originally Posted by iamlowsound

$100 vet bill for a $15 rabbit?

lowsound

C'mon man...Have a heart

[slugworth]

I dunno.....I just don't like to see animals suffer...Especially a kid's pet...

[Asa Samuel]

Vet, please for gods sake take it to a vet, wont anyone think of the children?!

[TheDarkReaver]

it does sound like rabies or some other nervous disease, mixy maybe? not sure.

whatever it is the rabbit will not likely survive. but of a gun to the back of the neck.

[TheDarkReaver]

Originally Posted by Bass Junkie

Vet, please for gods sake take it to a vet, wont anyone think of the children?!

get the kids to kill it themselves, it's a valuble life lesson

[slugworth]

Damn, you effin Limeys are heartless...

[hbarcat]

....dribbling from the mouth, running in circles, crashing into fences and not eating that much and has shaking paws. ...




That sounds like a severe neurological problem. I would suspect the rabbit received Central Nervous System damage from blunt trauma (head injury) or ingested something poisonous. Possibly a disease but, I think, less likely.


edit: It's definitely suffering. You need to decide right now whether you're going to take it to the vet and see what they have to say or else euthanize it yourself.

[MakiSupaStar]

Get a new pet. May I suggest a Burmese Python. It will eat the rabbits and the kids will never know they're gone.

[Captain Chaos]

Eat it.