Mites or Fleas?

[stuwright]

Hi ,

I`m new here, I took one of my bunnys to the vets last week after i could see he was losing fur, he has fleas i saw one in his fur when the vet inspected him, so i spend £50 on treatment,but looking at his fur this morning, it looks like mites too, & if it is i`m really not impressed with my vet,she should of seen it. heres a photo i took this morning
http://oi44.tinypic.com/v5esmq.jpg

http://oi39.tinypic.com/kf4hzs.jpg



its like a white crust stuck to his fur & skin ,i couldnt get very good photos,i tried to get it off a few times,but he ran off :-( it must be hurting for me to touch the area, as hes a friendly bunny & never usually runs off, bit upset really. when i had them neutered i wasnt impressed with my vets either, pan had fur missing on his ear when i got them back

Regards,

Stuart

 

[Maureen Las]

I'm sorry but I really cannot see enough on the pics to determine anything. Can you tell us what product your vet used on your bunny?

 

[stuwright]

its called "advantage" just dont know how white painful flakes could be caused by fleas? i`ll ring a couple of vets in the morning.

my bunny pan http://oi40.tinypic.com/am5k54.jpg looking cute

 

[Maureen Las]

Advantage supposedly kill fleas but I have heard Revolution (selamectin) is better for fleas and mites.

Vet may want to do a skin culture.

 

[tonyshuman]

I too am not sure but it could be mites or ringworm. Since it is more localized, that would be more like ringworm, but the pics look more like the flakes from mites.

The missing spot of fur on the ear may have been to get better access to the vein in the ear, which is sometimes used for injections, or from the probe of the pulse oximeter they use during surgery. This is the thing that they sometimes put on a person's finger or other animal's tongue. It keeps track of the heart rate and the oxygenation of the blood. It's a little clamp and when my Tony was in intensive care for a while he got a small irritated spot on his ear where they had hooked the pulse ox on him.