[Petbunny] Jackie

[Jo McCoy]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Melanie Barr <mvbarr at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Jackie's vet visit was more expensive that I had thought, and it didn't
> tell us a lot of new information. Fortunately, there is no really bad news,
> and we learned that she has gained back the weight she lost (just like most
> humans do).
>
> The problem with her runny eyes comes and goes, and there is no permanent
> solution that we know of.  She also has a messy butt every 3 or 4 days. When
> I offer her the leftovers from the floor she usually doesn't want them, but
> sometimes she will gobble them down. This doesn't make sense to me as to why
> one day they are desirable, and not the next day.  Her ears look good, and
> the only unusual thing noted in her blood test results at this point were
> elevated triglycerides of 223 mg/dL, which also doesn't make sense.
> Finally, the one thing that is new is that she is getting points on her
> teeth that need to be filed, but that means going under anesthesia, and
> since she is still eating well, and the money going out is less than coming
> in due to Damon's unemployment, we didn't do it yesterday.  Jackie needs to
> eat more hay which might help with her teeth, but because she is finishing
> her big salads and all of her pellets it seems she doesn't want to her hay
> as much. If I make the salads smaller she throws her plate around until I
> wake up and get out of the bed to take her plate away.  That is not what she
> wanted me to do, but she still throws her plate around anyhow if she feels
> the salad wasn't big enough.
>
> We didn't see any fleas on her yesterday, but there was flea poop on her
> back from an earlier infestation (my poor baby!), so we put Revolution on
> her today.
> Melanie
>