Torchster
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My wonderful little bunny Bert (Rescue bunny - probably adwarf mix - probably a couple of years old and fixed)has had an issue with some scrapes he has been getting on his noggin. I haven't been able to figure out how in the heck this is happening, but something somewhere doesn't agree with my baby's head. Now these wounds aren't like a simple scratch to the head, you know a line from point A to point B. But something like you would get on your knee if you fell down.
After he got the first one, of course I noticed the bald spot and then the wound, I took him to the vet and she said everything was healing OK and in a few weeks his hair would grow back.
After the hair started growing back, he got another one near the first one. I watched it carefully. I put a little neosporin on it because I am a worrier. It too seemed to heal just fine.
Then he got another one. All over the space of a couple of months. I have NO idea what he is headbutting in his cage...but I wish he would STOP. Anyway, now I am worried that he might be getting an abcess (sp?). It is on the top of his head close to his eye. There appears to be a little bump there. I'm not sure if it just a part of his eye, or something else. If it is something, it is tiny.
Either way, he goes to the vet tomorrow! I am taking NO chances. Please god let it be nothing. I have done some reading on the various forums and the thought of treating an abcess is scarey - ME giving my tiny precious Bert injections, are u NUTS?
Needles are not my friend.
He is still eating and running around being a bunny, but I worry.
After he got the first one, of course I noticed the bald spot and then the wound, I took him to the vet and she said everything was healing OK and in a few weeks his hair would grow back.
After the hair started growing back, he got another one near the first one. I watched it carefully. I put a little neosporin on it because I am a worrier. It too seemed to heal just fine.
Then he got another one. All over the space of a couple of months. I have NO idea what he is headbutting in his cage...but I wish he would STOP. Anyway, now I am worried that he might be getting an abcess (sp?). It is on the top of his head close to his eye. There appears to be a little bump there. I'm not sure if it just a part of his eye, or something else. If it is something, it is tiny.
Either way, he goes to the vet tomorrow! I am taking NO chances. Please god let it be nothing. I have done some reading on the various forums and the thought of treating an abcess is scarey - ME giving my tiny precious Bert injections, are u NUTS?
Needles are not my friend.
He is still eating and running around being a bunny, but I worry.