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Morgan
Hello all! Its been a very long time since I posted anything!
I did want to share this weird thing that happened this morning, just because its uncommon.
This morning I got up to feed Ellie and the cats in the laundry room. Walked in, its a murder scene. Ellie is hopping around, leaving trails of blood behind her. I immediately freaked out! I called the vet and told them it was an emergency, I loaded her up and got her down there as fast as possible.
She chewed all of her toenails down to the quick! My very rabbit savvy vet is a little baffled, because apparently its really rare for rabbits to chew their own nails off.
He took some fur samples from all of her feet, put them in this medium to help fungus growth, to see if it is a fungal infection. I'll get the results back from that in like 5-10 days.
I have antibiotics and I have to give her warm foot baths in epsom salt water until her nails heal up.
It wasn't just a few, its ALL of them.
My vet said, it was either a bacterial infection, a fungal infection or she got shocked by chewing on wires. The laundry room is rabbit proofed, so she didn't get any wires. So its either some sort of bacteria or fungus. He said she may have been nibbling privately, but then something happened and it sent her over the edge and she chewed all of them off.
Other than her nails, he said everything else looked good. Her stomach and heart sound good. He said shes a little plump, shes 5.4 lbs.
Everyone check your buns toes! Make sure their nails are looking healthy and good. Although, Ellie's nails DID look healthy and fine, I guess they were not.
I'll update as I get results from the fungal test!
I did want to share this weird thing that happened this morning, just because its uncommon.
This morning I got up to feed Ellie and the cats in the laundry room. Walked in, its a murder scene. Ellie is hopping around, leaving trails of blood behind her. I immediately freaked out! I called the vet and told them it was an emergency, I loaded her up and got her down there as fast as possible.
She chewed all of her toenails down to the quick! My very rabbit savvy vet is a little baffled, because apparently its really rare for rabbits to chew their own nails off.
He took some fur samples from all of her feet, put them in this medium to help fungus growth, to see if it is a fungal infection. I'll get the results back from that in like 5-10 days.
I have antibiotics and I have to give her warm foot baths in epsom salt water until her nails heal up.
It wasn't just a few, its ALL of them.
My vet said, it was either a bacterial infection, a fungal infection or she got shocked by chewing on wires. The laundry room is rabbit proofed, so she didn't get any wires. So its either some sort of bacteria or fungus. He said she may have been nibbling privately, but then something happened and it sent her over the edge and she chewed all of them off.
Other than her nails, he said everything else looked good. Her stomach and heart sound good. He said shes a little plump, shes 5.4 lbs.
Everyone check your buns toes! Make sure their nails are looking healthy and good. Although, Ellie's nails DID look healthy and fine, I guess they were not.
I'll update as I get results from the fungal test!