Hey all.
Let me start off by telling you about my baby back home. He’s a New Zealand White, with the most affectionate, loving personality I, and anyone else, has ever seen in a rabbit. He loves to follow people, to lay near them, nudge them for affection etc.
His recent vet visit was early August for a cloudy eye. They didn’t know what to think of it, as there was no eye scratch that became visible when it was dyed, but they gave me his eye cream, and everything went well. During this vet visit, I also had them take his blood and stool since it was about time anyway. He also got his teeth checked. He was cleared all over.
Now, September 9th I left for college. He is in the care of my parents/family, who already care for the other rabbit at home, and know how to do all the small details. Since I left, Valentino has become aggressive. In the four years i’ve had him, he’s nipped me twice. Since i’ve left, he’s full blown biting people, leaving bruises on their legs multiple times. I don’t understand what’s wrong with him.
They gave him my entire room, so I don’t know if it could be territorial that now he has much more space to protect. Even when he only had his cage, he was never territorial.
He is litterbox trained, free-fed hay, and gets 1 cup of pellets daily. He is not neutered. My vet told me because it isn’t an immediate concern, not to worry about (we don’t know how old he is, anyway. Has to be more than four. He was a stray we found 4 years ago.)
If it was testosterone related, i’d think it would’ve come up by now.
My heart is so broken. He has been drooling a bit and I got prescribed ointment for his drool-burn on his chin. I wonder if he needs a more thorough dental exam when I get back home in November.
He also has always had a weird thin area on his back of fur since I got him. The vet, and some online research, says it’s common, but lately it’s been getting bigger and becoming more bald. The vet wasn’t concerned by it. Could this all be age related?
You might have to copy and paste these photos into your browser. The one of him laying down was in 2012, when he was younger. I think there is a difference in his appearance today, along with his patch.
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