Monday, October 6, 2008

Eimeria

In the last vet visit, we brought Poochie's stool samples and the vet sent them to a lab.

Last Friday, the vet called to tell us that they found parasites called Eimeria.
It lives in the intestine of rabbit.

I was baffled because this is the second problem we found about this bun.
See, we bought the Poochie from a rabbit breeder and I thought that it's more safer and we can find healthy rabbits.
After the sad experience with the last rabbit we had, we went extra miles to find breeder to get rabbit. But after all, breeders not always perfect.
I will write about our late rabbit stories some day.

Anyways, the vet gave us a medicine that should be given twice a day using syringe.

I hold Poochie and push a tiny syringe tip into her mouth, but she hates it....

Now, we have to clean her cage and litter box (which she uses as only her bed) thoroughly with hot water.
After much research on the Internet, I figured that we should clean the cage and accessories using hot water to kill the bugger.

There are not much information on the Internet about how to clean up and how often we should disinfect cages.

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