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Hi everyone, unfortunately my Leo has been sick the past week and a half and is now in the hospital. Some background on him, he has always had a sensitive stomach, in particular chicken gives him diarrhea. We feed him rabbit wet food with some dry to snack on between meals.
I’ll start from the very very beginning:
Around 4-5 weeks ago we attempted to transition him to lid turkey from the rabbit. He did well for almost 3 weeks but then started to get very runny foul diarrhea. Switched back to the rabbit, and he’s very picky about it and reluctant to eat it. At this point, we are just trying to get him to eat, so we try to give him a little lid salmon wet food. He throws it up, he doesn’t usually every throw up but not a big deal, we tried a few others. This kind of repeats for a few days, him snubbing food and us trying new things and him occasionally throwing it up. I also notice that he is hunched up and uncomfortable looking after meals, and I start to notice him hunching and sort of floofing up, like he is cold. We take him to the vet after 3 days of this, they don’t see anything of interest in the blood work and x-ray. We come back the next day, they take another x-ray. They see some gas and recommend probiotics. At this point he is pooping and peeing normally. He poops about once a day, sometimes it’s a little soft/runny. He throws up again yesterday, so we take him to the ER. This is a possible red herring, but my husband notices something in the vomit that looks sort of like a pale sunflower seed, and we bring it to the vet, thinking he could have worms or something. We get to the ER and they don’t seem interested in the puke, they do an x-ray and don’t see anything other than inflammation of his GI tract. They find out that he has a fever of 104.5, and they run a blood panel and see high white blood cells, eosinophils and i think basophils, she says that could be either allergy or parasites. The fever concerns her though and they still thinks it’s a possible foreign body, so they want to keep him overnight to give fluids, antibiotics, dewormer, and then do an x-ray in the morning to see if things are moving. This morning we call and they say he hasn’t eaten, which isn’t shocking because I’m sure he’s stressed, and that his fever went down overnight but then spiked this morning again to 104.5. They are going to start him on steroids for inflammation and keep him for another night most likely.
I just want to post to see if we are missing anything obvious or if anyone else has been in this situation.
I’ll start from the very very beginning:
Around 4-5 weeks ago we attempted to transition him to lid turkey from the rabbit. He did well for almost 3 weeks but then started to get very runny foul diarrhea. Switched back to the rabbit, and he’s very picky about it and reluctant to eat it. At this point, we are just trying to get him to eat, so we try to give him a little lid salmon wet food. He throws it up, he doesn’t usually every throw up but not a big deal, we tried a few others. This kind of repeats for a few days, him snubbing food and us trying new things and him occasionally throwing it up. I also notice that he is hunched up and uncomfortable looking after meals, and I start to notice him hunching and sort of floofing up, like he is cold. We take him to the vet after 3 days of this, they don’t see anything of interest in the blood work and x-ray. We come back the next day, they take another x-ray. They see some gas and recommend probiotics. At this point he is pooping and peeing normally. He poops about once a day, sometimes it’s a little soft/runny. He throws up again yesterday, so we take him to the ER. This is a possible red herring, but my husband notices something in the vomit that looks sort of like a pale sunflower seed, and we bring it to the vet, thinking he could have worms or something. We get to the ER and they don’t seem interested in the puke, they do an x-ray and don’t see anything other than inflammation of his GI tract. They find out that he has a fever of 104.5, and they run a blood panel and see high white blood cells, eosinophils and i think basophils, she says that could be either allergy or parasites. The fever concerns her though and they still thinks it’s a possible foreign body, so they want to keep him overnight to give fluids, antibiotics, dewormer, and then do an x-ray in the morning to see if things are moving. This morning we call and they say he hasn’t eaten, which isn’t shocking because I’m sure he’s stressed, and that his fever went down overnight but then spiked this morning again to 104.5. They are going to start him on steroids for inflammation and keep him for another night most likely.
I just want to post to see if we are missing anything obvious or if anyone else has been in this situation.
