BriceBunnies
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I have a 10 month old female Flemish Giant. She lives indoors but occasionally i have to put her outdoors in a completely enclosed child's playhouse (which has 1/2 ft window pane openings at the upper door) but no animals i can imagine could fit thru them. I have the little house right near my glass patio door so i see her within view. She had been in there for a fewdays because she destroyed her indoor quarters and ihad to rebuild everything with stronger materials . I finally got it done last night so i brought her in and i noticed something was terribly wrong with her tail. There was very little fur and a wound . Honestly i never even knew Bunnies had much more then fur in their tails let alone 16 bones come to find out. So it looks like the bones may be exposed? She has fur left on the tip and the fur on the bottom end of the fur is pretty gunked up which i believe from the smell is feces. I would snip that part off but scared of her fighting me and potentially hurting her tail more. She is in good spirits, eating a ton , popping/peeing fine, hopping around fine. I noticed she is shedding right now so is it that a possible connection that she pulled out too much fur on her tail and there was friction on the tail flesh? Im just at a loss how this could happen. I honestly do not have the money to bring her to the vet and it's breaking my heart. Ive been drizzling Hydrogen Peroxide on her tail every few hours and keeping her litter box extra clean to prevent infection. Im praying the skin on the tail will heal and the fur will start growing again but right now im just trying my hardest to prevent infection. Do you have any suggestions or insight on this? Im attaching a photo so you can get a clear idea whats going . It does look better then it did last night after a few cleanings.Should i put ointment on it? Im pretty sure gauze would be useless because it would upset her& cause her to go on arampage trying to rip it off. And what happen ifthe bones in thetail are broken?