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One of our little bunnies went into GI stasis and we found out about this when doing research online over a week-end when our exotic animal vet was closed. We took our little bun to an animal urgent care and they were going to admit him to do "exploratory surgery" (don't ever do this, most bunnies never survive the surgery and you don't need to do this if your bunny has GI stasis). I wish I had known about this so I would have had it on hand before our bunny got sick but it arrived super fast through Prime (phew). (You never know with Prime, depending on the item, the day you order it etc. etc. it could take up to 4 days to receive an item nowadays with Amazon Prime.) Its super easy to use, the instructions are on the bag, it comes as a powder and you mix it was warm water and feed it to your bunny using a feeding syringe that you can buy from a pharmacy in the baby aisle. If you only have 1-2 bunnies, this small size is more than enough, you don't need the bigger bag. It sort of has a pungent lemony scent which is pretty disgusting when your bunny poops it out, but you'll never be more thankful to see bunny poop in your life! Our bunny didn't seem to mind the taste (we tried various organic veggie baby foods and he hated those, but he went for this pretty ok considering....) If your bunny goes into GI stasis, please do not give your bunny an enema (there are well meaning people online who recommended this to us but our vet was against it.) What you want to do is help your bunny get hydrated at the vet with subcutaneous fluid therapy, we found that and the Rx laxative and pain reliever (for his fairly large gas bubble that we saw on his x-ray) to be the most helpful things for our little bun. He was hydrated twice and only on the pain reliever, laxative and this food for 3 days in total before he returned back to normal. We set our alarm clock to wake up every two hours to check on our bun during the night when he was too sick to move and when his temperature dropped we surrounded him with lightly warmed rice bags that seemed to help bring his temperature back up and also the warmth was comforting to him. Its a super scary thing to go through so I highly recommend you have this on hand "before" you need it for just in case.

Un indispensable ! On apprécie l'évolution avec la mise en place d'une petite cuillère doseuse dans le paquet. Par contre, ce n'est jamais vraiment claire la quantité et la fréquence à laquelle l'administrer. Je l'utilise depuis des années et tous les cochons d'indes ont toujours adooooorés (cela aide énormément quand ils sont pas biens.. et cela permet d'être un bon indicateur pour suivre l'évolution de la maladie par exemple, s'ils refusent d'en manger ou réduise la quantité. Petite astuce/rappel, Après ouverture, à conserver au réfrigérateur. Perso, je fais bouillir un peu d'eau lorsque je le prépare, cela permet de vraiment de bien mélanger ce complément à l'eau ! La quantité d'eau est en fonction de la texture souhaitée. Si l'animal mange un peu par lui-même, une texture pâteuse est OK 👌 et à mettre dans une mini gamelle par exemple. Par contre, s'il ne veut pas seul, le "choc thermique" frais/chaud facilite énormément l'administration de ce complément avec les petites pipettes. Au début, je ne savais pas et j'avais l'impression qu'il y avait plus d'eau qui passer dans la pipette que de complément... 😅 +++ important +++ Familiariser et habituer ses animaux, au plus tôt, aux pipettes (en donnant ne serait-ce que de l'eau). Cela sera très important et fera la différence lors des périodes où ils seront malades (vous pourrez leur donner les pipettes en les laissant dans leurs cages) bon... Que certains médicaments 🙃 (si ça sent pas bon ou mauvais goût, ils se font rarement avoir deux fois ;))

Excellent product for my senior pet bunny who suffers gut stasis regularly. Highly recommend!!!