#angrysnakes

I know shipping drama rots your brain, and I know I shouldn't get mad about a 3 month old post with four (4) notes that no one's probably gonna see, but how many times do I have to say that I'm not a proshipper or zoophile before these discourse-poisoned terminally online toddlers get it??

Thank you for the info! If you don't mind another question: does bloat in rabbits usually lead to stasis? How serious is bloat in rabbits? I'm more familiar with it in horses and cows and just between those two species the prognosis and treatment is very different

Would you be able to go a bit into what stasis is/what causes it/how to handle it?

absolutely!

gut stasis is when the gut literally stops moving.  this is usually caused by the rabbit not eating, or a buildup of gas in the gut.  rabbits’ gut systems are very fine-tuned machines, and if a rabbit doesn’t eat, its gut stops working, and they starve to death very rapidly.

usually bloat goes hand in hand with stasis, as gas builds up in the guts from food over-fermenting, causing pain, which causes the rabbit to not want to eat, ad infinitum.  it’s common in weaning kits that will get stressed and not want to eat after being taken away from their dam, during food changes, or rabbits who have been moved recently.  providing lots of extra hay can sometimes help, which is why i mentioned it in the tags.  i have admittedly stopped giving my rabbits daily hay due to the effort involved, but i think i really should get back into it now that i have lots of litters on the ground and in the oven.

the treatment for stasis is to try to get the rabbit to eat so that the gut gets going again.  because of the pain caused by bloat, this can be hard to do, and often requires force-feeding the rabbit a high-nutrient liquid diet along with pain and anti-gas medication.

His pelt is so pretty!! I want it!