hair loss on ears

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- 02/16/2011 at 1:20 PM
  sarasaphantasia
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  well my bunny coraline i noticed today that she is losing hair on her ears and the skin is kinda flaky and dry….. it is on both ears and when i touched /rubbed her ears hair just like fell out. she is not scratching at all and no other hair loss anywhere else on her. she does not have fleas because i put prevention on her…..it doesnt look gross or anything just dry with the flakes. the rest of her coat looks healthy and fine with the exception of that area……i moved her out of my room right now and where she is i have been leaving the windows open alot, could it just be dry skin or somehting? it is not all that cold out but we get a few cold snaps here and there. perhaps its just dry skin? or perhaps it sounds like some little mite problem? any ideas?
- 02/16/2011 at 3:13 PM
  RabbitPam
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  Well, I don’t want to prevent you from taking her to a vet visit if it’s necessary, but you could purchase a product called Bag Balm first to see if it helps.
  It is in a green square can, which I was able to find at my local CVS (in the skin lotions aisle). It is a medicated moisturizer for skin that is very healing for animal sores and also for human dry skin like heels of feet. Anyway, I would use a small dab on the ears to see if the flaking stops and it stops shedding with the moisture from the bag balm. It’s gooey like vaseline. But if it looks red, infected, or spreads in hair loss or flakiness, call your vet.
- 02/16/2011 at 3:35 PM
  sarasaphantasia
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  thanks i will have to go look for that and give it a try ^^
- 03/06/2011 at 4:30 PM
  sarasaphantasia
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  the problem cleared up on its own. i am not sure what it was but she has been shedding like crazy recently so it was probably just part of that.
- 03/10/2011 at 5:02 AM
  RabbitPam
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  Glad to hear it. Just keep an eye on it over the next few weeks in case there’s anything else developing, but it does sound like part of the shed after all.
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