#conjunctivitis

A male house sparrow Passer domesticus infected with mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, a non-zoonotic disease that seemingly only affects family Fringillidae. This type of conjunctivitis is more common during winter.

You can learn more about it here!

This male is in our care and will be releasable once the infection clears. I am only handling him to sanitize his cage and administer ocular medication. His well eye is facing the camera here.

my poor little Juno had conjunctivitis last week and is still quite ill with severe appetite problems (which is bad for rabbits).

Beginning of April I went to Leicester (farthest gone for any pet) and bought my new mini rex, Bramble and my Aunt got a dalmatian mini rex buck called Oreo.

Mated Oreo to Juno and noticed he had slight weeping eyes, to which my grandad said he was fine.

Turned out he had Conjunctivitis and had passed it to my Juno in one eye. An expensive vet trip later and they gave me eye drops to put in both eyes, three times daily for a week.

Last dose and all cured last Wednesday. My poor bitten and bruised arms are thankful.

Unfortunately, she had been in a lot of discomfort (was loudly teeth grinding) and has stopped eating her pellets. She nibbled barely any hay and cannot be given many greens due to her love of high calcium greens (which can cause bladder sludge in excess).

I sent her up the vet last night and thankfully her teeth are fine, but sadly her appetite hasn't improved.

I was given an appetite stimulant to syringe feed and she was given an injection of it last night. They palpated her as well (to check if medicine could interfere with baby bunnies) and She's absorbed her kits or had a phantom pregnancy, it was her first litter but I couldn't care less, as Im really worried of her health.

I've went out and got different flavour food (burgess excel hedgerow nuggets, old was the same brands regular nuggets), mixed dried fruit for pets, a pinch of dried mango and a bag of dandelion and lemon balm (our grass is wet and recently mown, so unsafe). Mixed it together in her food bowl and bought a shallow hedgehog bowl for her bed.

She's had conjunctivitis and now appetite problems (potentially gi stasis) in the space of a few weeks.

ps. Gi stasis is really dangerous and can become fatal if untreated.