11/12/2025
Hi Everybunny,
When Ducky came to us recently in the middle of the night his owner had discovered him on his side unable to get up and rushed him over in a panic. We immediately recognised the symptoms of vestibular disease. There can be a number of causes of this but our main thought was E.cuniculi, a parasite that can cause vestibular disease if it invades the central nervous system. We started treatment for this straight away.
Unfortunately, EC can take a month or even more of continuous care to combat which isn't something that most people find possible to handle in their day to day lives so the difficult choice was made to leave Ducky and his bun wife, Clover, with CrazyRabbitLady to work with round the clock.
Ducky didn't even know which way was up (in the first pic his nose is at the bottom and his mouth at the top) for a long time and was still barrel rolling 10 days into treatment. He started to become quite depressed and it was very hard to get food and especially water into him with him being so disorientated so we went back to the vet to ask for intravenous fluids which did a great job at perking him up! We also started him on antibiotics as CrazyRabbitLady felt that something else was going on with him either instead of EC or alongside it (quite possibly something which compromised his immune system enough to allow the EC to invade his CNS.)
He immediately was brighter following the extra fluids and started to improve greatly over the next few days! The next pic was when he was finally remaining upright with only minimal support from buffers on his left side. The head tilt was still an issue and he was overbalancing a lot but making every attempt to get back into some mischief which we love to see 😍
Pic #3, 4 weeks in and multiple courses of medications finally done with!! Just look at that cute fluffy face! 😭
It's hard work, takes a lot of time and is very emotionally draining but please never let anyone tell you there is no coming back from EC/vestibular disease. Try try try and if you can't possibly afford the time or resources to do so, ask somebody experienced to take over on your behalf! Even when head tilts are severe and permanent bunnies can still live a long and happy life post EC.
Cases like this are one of the reasons we are no longer able to accept non-urgent intakes. We have to leave our very limited remaining space and resources for those bunnies that need intensive care or emergency rescue. To give the Duckies out there a chance at the future they deserve 🥰
Unfortunately, our resources are more limited than ever so we are really feeling the pinch. Luckily, Ducky was treated through his owners' insurance massively reducing his costs to us. However, we have another case waiting to come in via somebody who received messages stating that their bunny is a biter and the owner is not only considering releasing her but is suggesting that the bunny is at risk from them of physical harm. Reminding us so much of River's case we have to try and help her before something happens that we can't have on our conscience. First port of call will be to spay her and allow her hormones to settle before getting to work on whatever emotional/communication issues might be also affecting her temperament. It is also believed that she may have a chronic eye issue that has gone untreated so that too will need to be addressed immediately. If you are able to help us to gather funds for the care of this bunny (she will feature in a future post once we have secured her from the owner) and other misunderstood bunnies just like her or sick bunnies like precious Ducky please consider a contribution to our vet bills and running costs via the methods below 🤞🤞🤞
Sorry for such a long post and thank you so much to those who managed to read the whole thing 😅 you make the world a better place just by existing 🤗 x
https://www.paypal.me/BinkyFlopsRescue
Account name: Caroline Hudson
Sort code: 09-01-29
Account number: 10009040
Alternatively, get in touch for information on how to make a contribution directly into our vet account.
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