A while back I brought in my rabbit, Benny, to the vet because I noticed he was behaving oddly. I couldn't pin point what was wrong but I knew something was bothering him. So she looked at him and thought that it was just a hairball, gave him hairball stuff, fluids and kept him overnight. I picked him up the next day, paid the $70 bill and took him home. He still didn't act normal, and wasn't eating much for veggies. The next weekend I noticed he had a huge abcess on the side of his mouth. So back to the vet we went. A different vet drained the abcess and put him on antibiotics and admitted that the abcess was what was wrong with him in the first place not a hairball, the other vet apparently didn't look in his mouth. I paid the $85 and took him home. So two weeks go by and he still isn't eating as much as he should and is starting to loose weight so back to the vet we go. He gets neutered and while he's under she looks in his mouth and dicovered that he needs his teeth fixed because while he had his abcess he had started to chew differently, so she fixed that right away too. So I paid the $135 bill and took him home. By now I am really quite frustrated with the whole thing. If the first vet would have listened to me in the first place Benny wouldn't have had to go through all that pain and stress. I guess I should have listened to my gut and been more persistant. The worst part is she said he'd probably have to have his teeth done again in the future. Has anyone been through anything like this? How often do you have to get their teeth refixed? Now he's finally starting to eat and drink a lot more and seems much happier, but he had a really rough April.
(I'm sorry for the long post, I tried talking to other people but all I got was wierd looks and comments about how I was wasting my money.)
(I'm sorry for the long post, I tried talking to other people but all I got was wierd looks and comments about how I was wasting my money.)