Yesterday I went to my girlfriend's house to move her room around to fit a wardrobe in her dad/stepmum got her. We went outside to feed her rabbit and she was feeling thin when we patted her and barely ate her food, if anything. We thought it was because of her cage being full and we pick her up and there is fucking HEAPS of dried shit on her ass so we take her out the front to clean her off and notice there a massive hole in her ass with maggots crawling around in there.
At this point I start calling vets around the area and none of them have an opening until 4:00-4:30. One says if we take her now for a checkup and they gauge it really bad they'll take her in straight away. We go, nurse takes her and they gauge it's bad but not bad enough that other appointments shouldn't go ahead of her. It was apparently the latter to them.
After like 30 minutes the vet sees her, looks at her and tells us they CAN operate to get all the shit out, fix up the edges of the wound to be clean and then dress her, but hey hey! It'll cost upwards of $500. So they recommend us to go to the
Lort Smith animal hospital. We go, get checked in and wait. For at least an hour. Now my girlfriend lives in Epping/Lalor and this is in North Melbourne (which is the other side of town, for you non-Melbourne folk) so it took 30-40 to drive there through the city at 5pm and we initially discovered the problem at 3:30pm. And maggots have been eating her flesh all this time.
Finally see another vet (6pm) and she basically says we gotta put her down, can't do anything more. So we say our goodbyes and she takes her into a back room and I pay and we're out.
All in all a pretty shit day. We did end up moving her room around to keep busy, looks good.
edit: it's called a Flystrike. Look it up and be disgusted