Sarita, yes, that’s the medicine Mr. Bunny is taking. It’s a broad-spectrum antibiotic.

The ear isn’t quite as swollen now, but it’s still red and warm. I suppose I’ll just keep an eye on it until Monday (bunny illness always happens on weekends, doesn’t it?), and if it isn’t better by then, I’ll schedule an appointment.

I called the vet yesterday. The lady there told me that as long as Ms. Rabbit is eating/pooping/behaving normally, and there’s no pus coming from the ear, I don’t need to do anything about it. She seemed very bored with me, and as if she wanted to get off the phone ASAP. >.< She told me that if it wasn't better in a couple of days, I should schedule an appointment.

Ms. Rabbit is still eating, pooping and behaving normally, but her cut seems to be doing worse. The swollen area is more swollen now, and it’s a much brighter red. The outside of the ear is now red and swollen too – which happened in less than 24 hours. Her ear isn’t as warm now, but she jumps back if I touch the cut or the swollen areas too hard.

Here’s a couple of pictures I took of the ear today.

Here’s the inside of the ear. The picture’s a little blurry, but you can very distinctly see the swollen area now.

Here’s the outside of the ear. I circled the cut and the red area. You can’t really see the swollen part, since it’s covered by some fur. You can see some of the fur loss in this pic.

The swelling on the inside of the ear is now very visible from a few feet away.

I certainly don’t consider BB to be a vet. Just a place where I can get opinions, hear from people who have had similar problems, and share my experiences with bunnies. The pictures I put up were really so I could share them, and get some opinions about whether or not she needed to go in if the cut was getting worse, and if I should just follow up with what the lady at the vet said.

If there’s any possibility that I could be harming some other bunny, I’ll take down the pictures and/or my post.

I took her to the vet today. I can’t say I’m happy about it at all.

He looked at her and, even though I explained that the cut’s looking worse and worse, said that it’s healing normally. o.o He pulled the other scabs on her body off and basically opened all her wounds, even though they were healing fine (“she won’t grow new skin underneath if you let the scabs form”). He told me that since there’s no scab on her ear, nothing can be done. He said that she’ll probably always have a swollen, red and lumpy ear. He also said that she’ll probably get an abscess there, and when she does, I should just let it grow until it bursts on its own. He said that bunnies usually don’t handle antibiotics (uh, yeah, what about the one I have at home taking antibiotics?), so all I should do is put some Neosporin on her wounds.

So…I pretty much spent $80 to have a guy open up her wounds and tell me that I didn’t need to worry about an infected ear.

Does she really not need to have anything done? It just seemed like every bit of advice he gave me was the opposite of what you’d think to do.

BinkyBunny: I somewhat trust this vet. They didn’t quite know how to treat Mr. Bunny’s skin condition (they gave him fur mite treatments for 7 months without considering it could be something else), but I thought that they would at least know how to treat an infection and some wounds. I should probably have taken her to the rabbit-savvy vet – but his office is 2 hours away, and my parents didn’t want to drive that far “over a little cut on the ear”.

Ms. Rabbit seems to really be hurting tonight. If her ear wasn’t hurting her earlier as the vet said, it’s hurting her now. She was tilting her head slightly from the pain. She refused to lift up the ear. She was very hesitant to eat her salad, and she ran and hid every time I got near her. A lot of hair was missing from her ear – I think she scratched it off. The ear itself looks much worse; it’s even redder on the inside of the ear, and the outside is now almost as swollen as the inside. She was scratching at it and shaking her head furiously after I put Neosporin on the ear.

The wounds on her body seem really sore, too. She jumped every time that I moved my hand near them (I didn’t even need to touch them for her to jump), and I could barely even put the Neosporin on them before she hid in a box and didn’t come out.

It’s hard for me to see her like this, even after I tried to get help. I feel like all of it’s my fault. Maybe I’m overreacting, I don’t know.

I suppose I’ll just have to take her to the rabbit-savvy vet on Monday if her ear is still bad then. I still don’t believe that there’s nothing that can be done and that her ear will always be the way it is now…since it’s still changing.

Just thought I’d give a little update. The lady at the vet called me yesterday to see how Ms. Rabbit was. She was a little shocked to hear that Ms. Rabbit’s ear didn’t heal yet – apparently, by now I should have seen some noticeable improvement. She said that if Ms. Rabbit isn’t better by Wednesday, I should make another appointment.

Ms. Rabbit isn’t doing so well. She’s extremely afraid of me – not like herself at all. She spends all of her time in either her darkest box or her litterbox. She’s also suddenly gotten extremely destructive – as in, tearing off pieces of the wall destructive.

Her ear isn’t doing great, either. The inside is a little redder, and it’s still covered in little red veins. The swollen part has stayed the same size, or maybe gotten a little bigger. On the outside, she’s pulled out most of the fur that she could reach (and even pulled a little off on the other ear), and the whole area is more swollen. Her ear seems to be hurting her quite a bit now; she still tilts her head and doesn’t lift the ear up for a while any time you touch it too hard.

The wounds on her back are healing okay, but I think they’re bothering her too, since she’s still licking them until her fur is wet.

Sorry about not updating for so long!

Ms. Rabbit is doing much better. I stopped putting neosporin on it to see if it would have any effect, and it definitely did. I’m not sure if it was a coincidence or not, but within 24 hours of not putting on Neosporin, her ear started dramatically getting better. The redness mostly went away, and the swelling went down on both sides of the ear. She’s also been behaving more like herself – she no longer just sits in her box all day. Her appetite is back to normal, too.

Thanks for all of your healing vibes!