showrabbits
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I hate having english lops for this reason....Pheobe who i absolutly love to pieces is a black tort english lop. Hergrandma was my first english lop and did the same thing. Two days ago Iwent out to my rabbits for a few hours of play time. I almost had aheart attack when I saw Pheobe. I thought she was dead in her cage, andthere was blood every where. The first thing that came to mind was dogattack again. I pulled myself together and found a box and towel for aproper burial. (dont know what I was thinking at the time because as Ilater thought of the ground is pretty frozen.) I placed fionna in thebox and saw that it was her ear and that it had been torn. I then wentand cryed for a little and came back out to clean up the barn afterhaving made a mess making sure that there werent any more animals inthe barn(still having thought that it was a dog orsomething)and finding a box oh and checking on the otherrabbits of course. I picked up the box to take another look at pheobeand when i picked up pheobe she woke up and kicked me in the face! Onceagain she had scared me soo bad that I almost had a heart attack. Icaught her mid air after she kicked me in the face and I gave her a hugand ran inside with her. Her ear had stoped bleeding and I put aclothes pin on it to keep it from bleeding more. (I have been throughtorn ears before) Luckly it wasnt a blood vessel that supples bloodback into the ear or into the body from the ear. I started her onsupplments to get her gluclose back up and such. She spent the night inmy room and i made a sling to keep her ear elevated and clean. The nextday she was back to her normal spunky self and had her condition backso I took her back to the barn and she was pretty darn happy to see hercage. Still no clue what caused it. Then today she was chewing on herear. She had tattered the edges of the other one and now was working onher other ear. I cleaned up her ear and she threw a fit about it. Ithen put a mixture or stinky stuff and lotion that I was given for hergrandmother when she would chew on her ears. I covered her cage andgave her tons of toys and treats to keep her busy, calm and preoccupied. Well it didnt work she realy messed up her ear. Fifteenminutes later I checked on her and she had her ear chewed down prettybadso now her ear is bandaged up and she is inside. Ibandaged it up with enough pressure on the end so that is all good. Sheis leaving the bandage on and I rigged up a rubberband chain again soher ear is elevated and she can turn around and it wont bother her any.I had to tape up her other ear to keep her from chewing on it. I guessI just have to wait it out. I think that her ears might have gotten wetor something although it realy hasnt been cold lately. Fionna wich waspheobes mother chewed on her ears if it got cold, but it realy has notbeen cold lately.... SO I am lost to why she is doing this. My bestguess is it is becasue of the pressure changing stressing her. She goescrazy during the summer when there is a storm coming. I usauly end upstuffing her cage full of straw to keep her from running up onto thesides of it. Any ideas would be great!
. I hope someone has a goodsolution for you.
