Tiny Boston Bun with the hiccups. 🤗

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Dear diary,

It is another gruelling day, depressing and dank. The sun seems grey in a dark sky, draining all colour from the world. Hope fades. Food turns to ashes in our mouths, drink satisfies no thirst. We begin to mourn for ourselves, our lives outside forgotten, our loved ones a distant memory. The very atmosphere is oppressive, still and quiet but threatening of what we know not.

It is day four.

The bunny is angry. [1]

[exeunt]

[1] small distant voice: "I'M NOT ANGRY JUST DISAPPOINTED"

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Q: what is Matilda doing on my bed?

A: whatever she wants.

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Rabbit folks...

George started displaying symptoms of his upper respiratory infection coming back. The vet had previously said that he might live the rest of his life with a low-level infection, but I don't know if this counts as low-level, so I'm taking him back to the vet tomorrow, the soonest I could get him in.

I'm wondering if any of you are particularly knowledgeable about antibiotics in our buns? I've always heard from vets that there were only "a couple" that were appropriate for rabbit use, but the House Rabbit Society - rabbit.org - has this article which lists a bunch more (it also includes a bunch you can't use). Anyone have any opinions on this?
https://rabbit.org/health/appropriate-use-of-antibiotics-in-rabbits/

George has already been through enrofloxacin ("Baytril") with steroids when he was at the Small Animal Clinic in Saskatoon last fall, and then oral ciprofloxacin ("Ciloxan") and injected penicillin from two more rounds from our vet here in town. Obviously getting a culture done to confirm what drug will affect it will be best, and I'll try for that, but I'm wondering whether I should be pushing for any of the other medications from this article if they just want to do more of what he's already had so far.

[argh: hit some key combination which lost long message I'd typed; apologies if this re-write sounds frustrated]

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