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if my rabbit were pregnant should I suspend meds for snuffles?

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Question
Hi Pam to clarify my question:
My buck that had been neutered for 10 days managed to get to the doe through a slit in the barrier I made so they could see each other but not be together through his recovery.
I know now they may have bred in the 5 minutes that it took me to find them together. The reason I did not spay her at the same time as my buck was because she has had the snuffles for a long time and I just started to try a nebulizer with her and the vet said to try it for one course of treatment (a month) and then see the resaults, and spay her when she is stable from treatment.  She is getting nebulized for ten minutes twice daily with a cocktail of 10ml sterile saline, 2ml amikacin (50mg/ml), 1ml aminophylline (25mg/ml)as well as getting oral baytril twice a day.
I hope she is not pregnant, BUT IF SHE IS, SHOULD I STOP GIVING HER MEDS(above) FOR SNUFFLES? CAN THESE SPECIFIC MEDS HURT THE KITS?
The vet said he thinks it is not likely she is pregnant, with the buck being neuttered for ten days and all (yeah, I asked), there for he dismissed my question about the medications, but I would like to know what if she were (and also do you think she could be pregnant)? Can these meds hurt the kits?
Thank you for your time.

Answer
If the buck had already been neutered for 10 days, I agree with your vet that it is highly unlikely that the doe is pregnant.  I would not stop the medication for snuffles.  If you stop the medication it can cause resistance in the bacteria that is causing the illness and it will be even more difficult to get rid of the snuffles.  In the rare chance that she is pregnant the far more viable option is to try to keep her healthy and not to worry so much about the babies.  It may sound cruel but in all reality if you take her off the medication and she is not pregnant it will make her worse, and if she is she may lose the babies but if she still has snuffles when the babies are born you now have an entire litter of rabbits to treat for snuffles.  Snuffles is easy to treat and difficult to cure.  

My vet puts it to me this way...  Which is better, a lifetime of medication or sniffling and death.  Save your female rabbit.  It is not worth her life on a very very small chance that the buck may still have been fertile.

Good luck

Pam