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- 11/12/2010 at 12:55 PM
  FluffyBunny
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  As if worrying about bonding, Mr. Bunny’s infection, and him starting on Penicillin shots isn’t enough…
  
  Three days ago, Mr. Bunny somehow hurt his paw when he was running to get treats during a bonding session. He was still putting some weight on it, and only his claws seemed to bother him, so I figured that he had just caught a claw in the rug while he was running.
  
  I still wasn’t concerned yesterday. He’s hurt his claws before, and it usually takes until the next day for him to start hopping on it normally. He was putting less weight on it, but that didn’t concern me.
  
  Well, his paw is even more sore today. He can’t seem to quite get it comfortable. The only comfortable position for him seems to be with the whole paw bent under his chest. He puts hardly any weight on it while he’s hopping. He also gasps and jumps away when I touch or bend the paw. After I touched it today, he didn’t even want a craisin – that’s HIGHLY unusual for him.
  
  Should I get this checked out? I’m going to see if the vet can look at it today when he gets his first injection, but I’m not sure if they’d be willing to do so when they were just giving a shot. Any ideas as to what he could have done to it by just running fast on a rug?
- 11/12/2010 at 12:59 PM
  Sarita
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  If you are taking him to the vet, go ahead and have him check it. The injection is pretty easy to do so don’t worry they cannot do both. It makes sense to have them check it while he’s there.
  
  Healing vibes to Mr. Bunny.
- 11/12/2010 at 3:59 PM
  FluffyBunny
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  Well, the vet tech didn’t seem particularly concerned, so I suppose that I’ll just keep watching it. I’ll call the good vet in a day or two if it’s still hurting him.
- 11/12/2010 at 4:02 PM
  Sarita
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  Seems like the vet techs never are…hopefully it’s just sprained and he will be fine soon. How did the shot go?
- 11/12/2010 at 4:07 PM
  FluffyBunny
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  It went great! Mr. Bunny actually didn’t jerk away as he usually does for shots. It seems that I am, in fact, slightly allergic to Penicillin (my eyes are still watery from looking down at him on the way home, and it’s been 20 minutes), but at least Mr. Bunny isn’t. Should be quite fun to give him a high dose of it every other day for the next month, though. I’m hoping that this will finally knock the infection out of him.
- 11/12/2010 at 4:15 PM
  Sarita
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  What is the dosage?
  
  I truly hope this works as well. Poor Mr. Bunny has been through so much.
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