Don't read unless you want to hear me rant about things you dont care about...
The only difference between rabbit vets and myself is that they can use machines and write perscriptions and I cannot. Its so inferiorating being talked to like a child about basic bunny facts and trying not to sounds rude when suggesting I already knew. Most of the time I do sound rude when I try to tell people that I already know something so I now keep my mouth shut but that is way way worse bedcause then they just think I am a brainless noob that needs everything explained to her 5 MILLION times. When this alll started.. what did I do? Researched. researched for days.. weeks. And I diagnosed Jefri with arthritis or possibly spondylosis. And possible pastuerella. only because on a bunny forum they sugested i look into it. but i was mostly concerned about the arthritis. I even knew what medications I needed and how much. If I knew how smart I am.. because dammit I am realizing just how freaking smart I am and keep wondering why the heck certain professionals are getting paid big bucks for something I figured out in 2 days. Anyways though... If I had known the circus I was getting into I would have just went to a crappy low costing vet and asked for the medication i needed and told them to shove the rest. or not.. in case i needed to go back for more.. Instead though... I am forced to pick a rabbit vet and no not just any rabbit vet but a good rabbit vet... but being labeled a good rabbit vet means nothing but this: you are just better at guessing and charge more. and being better at guessing is great.. for owners who suck at guessing and research and life in general.. but I already knew. So i went to a vet in glendale. and she was horrible. and only nice to tim even though we said the same things. she brought up putting him to sleep on our first visit. she charged nearly 50% more than online for medications and got all weird when I said I wanted to buy onine. she thought.. no she KNEW.. it was either pastuerella or e cuniculi and turned her nose up at my notes I brought in about arthritis. And my suggestion of giving him glucosamine in addition to pain medication (meloxicam). She wanted to do a bunch of tests.. one that she herself said was completely pointless 5 minutes earlier because almost all bunnies have pastuerella but only some show symptoms. so a positive meant nothing. She was just plain terrible. She wasnt even who we wanted to see originally. But that doctor wasnt available and we wanted to go in before the weekend.So months later he's gone up and down from really really good to pretty bad to falling over and not being able to get up. I upped his dosage of meloxicam.. she had him on .3 for ever and it literally did nothing. i asked if that was a typical dosage or low? She got offended and yelled at me.. yeah.. yelled at me. jerk. and then a week later she calls Tim like nothing happened and says to increase to .6. urg. So that was ok... but 2 weeks ago it wasnt cutting it. so i upped it to .8. I heard that some rabbits just need more and there wasnt any literature on adverse side effects on that dosage. I also started giving him oxbow joint supplements that contain glucosamine. and i give him about 1/4 of an actual glucosamine with chondroitin and msm pill... in case he absorbs one better than the other or one is in effective and if they are both effective thats fine since there is also no literature on adverse side effects or overdose. And what do you know? He's hopping around like a freaking super rabbit. ok not quite. but he doesnt fall over.. and if he does he can get up on his own. he doesnt lean as much. and his hops are full strong hops.. no dragging or shuffling or stepping. But he started having new symptoms.. a bunch of creepy sounds I never heard before. so i contacted someone who suggested another vet. so i took him. and of course she says it is not pastuerella or e cuniculi.. just looking at him without pushing tests on me. but because of his weakness in his legs it is hard to tell where it is coming from.. legs themselves or back. and since he had all those creepy sounds she wanted to do x rays which would help figure out both issues. And the sounds could indicate a heart condition... which i knew before i got there that it was either a heart thing or pnemonia and incase it was a heart thing is why i decided to go in otherwise i would have just ordered more baytril through the first vet. The results were that he does not have a heart problem and it is probably pnemonia. And his arthritis is.. in his back! just like i thought when it first happened before i ever called a freaking vet. he also has fur mites. although this second vet was obviously better... her receptionist is annoying the hell out of me. Besides the fact that she had never seen a rex rabbit and she works at an exotics vet office... She wouldnt stop asking me to set up a follow up appointment.. i said ok and she said its $60! the exam was $75... most follow up appointments at other vets are freeeeee. or some ridiculously low price like $10-$20.. not almost the same as the first.. i said i couldnt commit to it right now and hopefully the medication works. until then i dont know. plus its in pasadena... i have been having chronic back pain... driving with a rabbit for an hour in traffic is the last thing i want to do.. especially for a follow up. bleh. and she emails me this morning asking the same thing... dude. i told you. i have a feeling i will be hearing from her every day until i actually schedule one. which i wont be. i will just research what i can do for pnemonia in addition to the medication. i freaking hate vets. if i knew all this when i first got jefri i might have looked into becoming a rabbit vet just to avoid having to go to one. Ok I'm done...
I've been feeling similarly to doctors.
Since I am here... might as well post lots and lots of pics of Jefriii
When he was young...
Us. When he was about 4 - 5 years old
Friends..? Recent.. he's almost 10 now.
Choli - "I'll have what he's having.."
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He's wearing a diaper in this one but cant see it cuz he's just too furry :)
