Save Cricket: Fund His Critical Care

Hi there, I'm Gwienneth and I've got an ask!

Cricket came into our lives at 3 months old, having been rescued from a wooded thicket at 6 weeks with his siblings, the soup babies. My partner, Carly, fostered him until he reached 5 months. We loved his frenetic buzzing, and shadow chasing so much that foster became forever home.

He's grown in our care, learned how to clean himself, play, solve puzzles, and climb into the window sill. He lives with his two new house mates, Oni and Bean.

Oni is mostly flemish giant, and Bean is a netherlands dwarf. They love Cricket, and are teaching him the ropes.

They're wonderful creatures, full of personality and quirks. Sometimes they're wildly intelligent, other times they park, staring at the wall, and you wonder if the line will ever connect. Blessed, really.

The problem is, Lil man was in trouble.

He had a tummy ache, which you'd not think of as anything major.

Tummy troubles are the death of rabbits.

Our normal exotic vet (if it ain't a cat or dog, it's 'exotic') is incredible, he's knowledgeable, compassionate, and always straight with us.

He was out of the office, on a leave of sickness, leaving no one there to handle rabbits.

We took him to an emergency vet on the 23rd, and got no firm diagnosis. He was treated for stasis, and sent home.

The next morning, he was a flickering candle.

Back across the state, another emergency vet had an exotic specialist in. So we went. He was checked in, checked over, checked out, and sent to a veterinary hospital.

Cricket went into intensive care at the Pieper Memorial Veterinary Hospital on May 24th, with gut stasis and an unknown infection.

Gut/GI stasis presents as lethargy, an unwillingness to eat, excessive tooth grinding (basically rabbit purring) and pained reactions to getting pet along their flanks. Then usually results in death within a day.

The infection, still a mystery, led to swelling on his face, causing further discomfort.

Cricket somehow survived the first 24 hours, where fatalities usually occur. He stayed in critical condition for 3 days, receiving fluids and antibiotics. Any minute of those 72 hours, any second, we could have gotten the call that our boy was gone. It was nerve wracking.

His attending, Dr. Sojka, did incredible work. At the end of that 3rd day, we got a call. He'd been eating, pooping, makin' his lil noises, and wanted to come home.

Now he's home, and we've got the bill.

Grand total: 4544.69 USD

first exam:

$345 - fluids, an anti inflammatory, the exam itself, and a couple sips of the good ol' bowel encouragement fluid.

second exam:

$675 - radiology (them internals looked kinda bad.), another exam, and a tech to interpret it all.

the hospital:

$3500 - Exam, IV for 3 days, 3 day stay, an ultrasound, labwork, and all the bits and baubles that go with it.

The ask:

Help us out, this is a big hit, and it's completely outside of our budget. We'll do what we can to offset it, but every cent we get from external sources lessens the burden of this.

If you've got $5 or $10 to spare, consider helping us out.

Anything past the stated total of 4544.69, and gofundme's percentage, will be donated to the Every Bunny Counts rescue, where Bean, Oni, and Cricket were adopted from.