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slowly calming down but still scared
Pepper has pasteurella.
Think of it like having an FIV-positive cat - she can't have contact with other buns (good thing she doesn't want to) or cats, and her immune system is compromised.
She may coast along with only an occasional flare-up needing medication, she could struggle with chronic infections and abscesses needing treatment or surgery, she could end up just a bit less active and on antibiotics for life, or she could just get sicker and die.
If it is caught early, there is an 80% chance of recovery or simple management. I'm hoping that a month of mild sneezing followed by 3 weeks of the wrong medicine and a week of waiting for the culture still makes it "early" enough.
Since the most common antibiotic used for this doesn't seem to be working, we're trying another one (chloramphenicol). I have to be at work stu[idly early tomorrow, so I will have time to pick up the meds in the afternoon. Not sure that I'll be at gaming after all that.
So now we wait and worry.
Think of it like having an FIV-positive cat - she can't have contact with other buns (good thing she doesn't want to) or cats, and her immune system is compromised.
She may coast along with only an occasional flare-up needing medication, she could struggle with chronic infections and abscesses needing treatment or surgery, she could end up just a bit less active and on antibiotics for life, or she could just get sicker and die.
If it is caught early, there is an 80% chance of recovery or simple management. I'm hoping that a month of mild sneezing followed by 3 weeks of the wrong medicine and a week of waiting for the culture still makes it "early" enough.
Since the most common antibiotic used for this doesn't seem to be working, we're trying another one (chloramphenicol). I have to be at work stu[idly early tomorrow, so I will have time to pick up the meds in the afternoon. Not sure that I'll be at gaming after all that.
So now we wait and worry.
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I have 12 buns and only 2 have Pasturella (actively). None of the rest have shown any symptoms and that includes the other 4 that live in the same room with them (different cages). None of the cats have any symptoms either.
Have had really good results with Baytril. We've only had to debride a few times and they came through with flying colors. They love strawberry banana yogurt after the baytril too.
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((((( huuuuuuugs )))))
That just sucketh!
*deeep sigh*
Do we know if we caught it early?
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I know what it's like to have a pasteurella bun, honey... It can be manageable.
I hope that her system is just as feisty as she is.
Baytril didn't work?
I hope that she's okay...
*HUGS*
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*big hugs*
*yummy greens for bunny*
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Guin, my other cat, had to get bi-annual vacines against FIV, but that was the only thing. She lived 6 months longer, making it until 2 months before her 19th birthday.
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{{{{bearhugs for mom}}}} ***ear scrithces for pepper***
hoping you find someone to take care of her that weekend and that this clears up and all is well after...
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