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The vet thought that if Matilda continued to chew on the abscess, she would open it herself and told me that if that were to happen, I should rinse it with soapy water. Soapy water sounded more painful to me than light salt water, so that was why I selected that option. The vet and I agreed that...

Thank you for all your advice and the links to the site on abcesses. By reading all the information on abcesses and alternative treatments before we went to the vet, I felt much better prepared to ask questions and make decisions concerning Matilda's treatment options when we were at the vet's...

Sounds like it is time for me to make the acquaintenance of the "rabbit vet" and have her checked out. Normally, she is ready to bite me rather than look at me, but tonight she let me palpatate the ball and rub VetRX into it, without any protest. I looked for anything that might be a site of...

My 2 year old Flemish Giant doe had a large dewlap and yesterday it got shiny and now it appears to have a round ball where her dewlap was. I thought she was just pulling fur off her dewlap, but upon closer examination it looks like her dewlap has been replaced by a ball the size of a lime. The...

I know mistaken identity can happen, even to experienced breeders. I recently bought a 7 month oldFlemish "doe" that turned out to be a buck - and I only discovered the error when I turned "her" upside down to put her back into the travel cage.... and again, it was on a warm day and little...

Thanks. I feel much better. The silly part is that of the 8 New Zealand and Flemish Giants that I had previously sexed as does, only 3 still appear to be does. Not very good odds on my gender identification skills since those are large breeds and each of them was at least 8 weeks old when I got...

Several rabbits that I initially identified as does, now appear to have testicles. Is there anything that looks like a small balloon that ever hangs down from a doe when she is outsidein the heat, or do I just have a lot more bucks than I thought? (yes, some of the "newly discovered" bucks also...