Some of you may remember Mookie the 10 yr old bunny I adopted a few weeks ago after fostering.
He has been having increasing respiratory effort over the past week or so, so we took him to the vet yesterday. He settled down well in O2, and his chest rads came back negative (which was a huge sigh of relief because we were thinking heart failure, cancer, or pneumonia). He stayed overnight in O2 and the vet started him on abx--he seemed to do better, so at this point we were thinking upper respiratory. He wanted to anesthetize him so he could get in his nose and mouth and clean him out, and when he was under, he found a massive tumor. The tumor dominated the entire left side of his skull and was pushing on his septum, which was making him unable to breathe. We decided to euthanize this morning
Poor bunny. He was such a sweetheart.
I just wish the vet would've cut us a break. We've only had him three weeks, the head tech at the shelter is the head tech at the vet office (ie, we have connections), and the bill was over $1000.
What a crappy day. RIP Mookie man :cry::cry::cry: