Pet Forum / Mammals / Rabbits / July 2008

How did they clear the tear duct?  AHHH anther bun with rabitude!!
LOLOL... go Panda!!

marylee

Wow, that is great!  I just about visualize what they did to unblock
it.  After I had laser eye surgery, I had to go to an eye surgeon who
tried unsuccessfully to pull the plug out of one of my tearducts.  It
was not a good time to say the least.  Bless that little Panda!

Lisa, Hershey, Boo Boo, Louise & Sharkey (Thelma, Wendy & Cartman FTB)

Panda, sweetie;
we are sooo proud of you, that hard to be difficult, good girl; hope it
stays well.
hugs
Joe for Debbie (zoe,tabitha,tiffany,bugsy,honey bunny, gulp :( and Lady
Precious at RBB

Hi

We had been giving her eye medicine without any change in the eye's
runniness, so Sylvia;' our vet, had another look and decided to un-block it.

First S put anaesthetic eye drops in the eye and waited about a minute for
it to work. In the meantime she got a catheter, like the ones used to stuff
medicines intravenously and removed the central needle. S then forced the
corner of the eye so she could find the opening of the duct and inserted the
catheter into it. It took several goes before she found it and inserted it.
Then amazingly she let it go whilst she reached for the syringe of liquid,
presumably saline. I thought Panda would now shake it out and we had to
start again but no. S squirted a few drops into the catheter and said we
should see some fluid coming out of Panda's nostrils - which we did. Then
she removed everything, and Panda started to sneeze a bit.

S pointed out a few drops which had some white deposit in it.

Any way job done and we went home.

Normally Panda is put into her harness and confined because she likes to
jump anywhere in the vets. She took all this so quietly that Jackie and I
were amazed, and really couldn't believe it!

Cheers All - Richard

Hello Richard, just checking in to see how Panda is doing> Hope
everything is still good, her eyes and her bunnitude. Carla Liza and
Jodie.