Lizzy is a complete disgrace as a hopper! She misses and runs into things and wipes out and doesn’t jump hard enough and then falls…
She just tried to jump out of her pen, which she does approximately 30 times a day, and slipped on the hay in her litter box (the take-off/landing zone), and landed her back paw on the edge of the pen. She scares the @#$% out of me! So I go cooing after her, and flip her over, and look at her paw, and it looks okay, but I’m not a vet and I don’t know what I’m looking for. She’s still hopping around and eating her lettuce and demanding pets, so I guess she’s okay…
But I remember a post of Osprey’s recently about how some of his buns had wounds he couldn’t even see, that the vet found…
Any advice to a mother of the world’s least-graceful rabbit on how to check for injuries when her clutz of a diva-bunny wipes out and smashes into the furniture? Do rabbits get bruised? What are the warning signs that they’ve bumped themselves hard enough to require a vet-trip?
(It’s a good thing she has a hutch and not an NIC condo…she’d probably manage to fall off the top story and break her little neck…)
((In fact, once she got freaked out at the vacuum–the little cordless dust-buster! It wasn’t even the full-sized one!–ran up the couch, onto the top of her hutch, and then JUMPED DOWN! It’s probably 3.5 feet from the top of that hutch to the ground! I almost had a heart-attack, and now I make sure she’s locked in her hutch whenever I run anything that sounds vaguely vacuum-like…))



