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Sudden 7.5year old rabbit death

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Question
Hello, I had a 7.5 year old bunny full of health and energy. He behaved like a puppy to us and we loved him as our child. He spent 1/3 of the day out of his cage like a member of the family. 6 days ago he seemed more aggresive than usual and he avoided our company, but this lasted about 4-6 hours. Next day everything seemed normal. 2 days ago he had the same symptoms plus running like crazy all over the house, bitting everything like crazy, his heart beating like crazy also, so we had to put him back in his cage in order not to get hurt. After some time he lied down quitely and he looked like he would sleep for the night, only that he never woke up........
I tried to find an answer about this sudden death, but no one can help...
(The vet didn't know the cause of death and she said that there was a possibility of brain tumor...)
Please, if there is any possibility that you have a more specific answer about my rabbits death,
let me know....
(Please note that the bunny had never problems with his health)

Thank you for your time, and excuse my english writting
Anna Tsolaki

Answer
hi anna lots of rabbits are fine one day and then the next they have passed away.siezures are very common in rabbits and nobody really knows why they happen -it may have been a tumour but unless you have a post mortem on it you will not be sure why this happened.
dave.