Daisy x

This week i posted a request for healing and prayers for my beautiful rabbit Daisy, and after 8 horrible days she is almost completely herself again.

As i've said before, i have 5 house rabbits. I have always feed them Excel pellets as it is recomended by many vets and breeders. The day before Daisy got ill, my daughter had gone and got some Excel food from the garden centre, and spoted some Excel hay with mariglod and dandillion and got that too. I gave it to my rabbits that night, and it was the next evening i noticed Daisy wouldn't come out of her cage.

The vet said that she had an upset stomach and swelling around her neck and gave us recovery food, anti biotics and paste to help her gut, all to be given by syringe. When the recovery food had ran out after 2 days, as directed by the vet, i added water to a dish of Excel pellets, and gave it her by syringe every hour. I took her back to the vets as she was no better, and now her stomach was making loud growling noises. Also i had put exactly 40 pellets in her bowl, and counted them every day to check if she had eaten, and in almost a week she hadn't eaten 1 pellet.

Then my daughter and i suddenly realised that her stomach had only been growling since i was syringing her the Excel pellets, so hopeful, i went back to the vets at 8.30 in the morning and got some more recovery food. As soon as i started it, her stomach stopped growling, and she still now wont touch excel. I honestly think that there was something in the hay that either really upset her, or she was allergic to. I also think that something in the hay, is also compressed into the pellets, and thats why she was worse when i was forcing it down her.

I feel as though i should warn people about the hay, as i'd hate any poor rabbit getting ill as Daidy did, but as my daughter pointed out, my other rabbits were fine with it; i've thrown out anyhow!

I'm so grateful she's better. I lost Tyler my polish dwarf last year in march and was convinced i was going to lose Daisy.