The vet tech comes out and tells me she’s doing what she can, I scream, I beg them to save him. I run to the back and open a door, I see him on the table and her trying to revive him. I scream, I cry, she leaves and said something about CPR. Because about 10-20 minutes later the vet comes and tells me Alex has arrested. I’ve questioned and went over 1000 times or more in my head if I did the right thing. They took him back to let him rest and I thought he could use it so I went to the waiting room. I told them about how sweet of a bun he was, how he loved to get under the recliner and thought it was a game, how he just got a scooby doo chair that made him feel like a king. I went back to see him and he was laying on the table, groggy from the sedation. They did the procedure and the vet comes out and says they got a good amount of gas out and he pooped one pellet, I was hopeful. I remember holding him and putting my head on his and thinking “I hope this isn’t the last time I get to hold him, I have to remember this moment.” And it was the last time I held him alive. I sat on the floor and held him for a couple minutes before they took him to do the procedure. I agree to this because it was a last resort, my baby wasn’t eating or using the bathroom. At this point we’re doing almost everything, there’s one other thing they can do.Ī procedure where they sedate him and go in his stomach with a tube and release the gas (which he still had not passed) We get there about 4:10 and he was in a small room they have for rabbits and it was really warm trying to raise his temp. I woke my mother and we went there straight away. I called at 4am and they tell me his temperature had dropped (96ish) and were planning on starting syringe feeding at 6am if there were no improvements ($120) I slept absolutely none, and called to check on him ever 1-2 hours. We left him there but got a hotel 5 minutes away. They started an IV drip to hydrate him and hopefully get things moving, there was also pain medication in the drip. We stayed for a while and they gave him pain meds, he became very sleepy after this, this is the last picture I have of him alive, he was sleeping in my arms They wanted to hospitalize him for 24 hours but I didn’t want to leave my baby. His temperature was Also a little low, running 99ish and rabbits should run over 100 And the bloodwork showed his potassium and proteins were off. They took an x-Ray and did some bloodwork and found he had a big gas bubble in his tummy. We got him to the emergency vet (over an hour away) at around 8:30 PM. I drove home late Saturday august 24th because he wasn’t doing well (my mom took care of him while I’m at school but I FaceTimed him every single day)Īlex wasn’t eating or pooping, this has happened before but we can usually get him out of it by using pear juice, baby gas drops, tummy massages, critical care and other things.

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