Posted By Azerane on 3/30/2016 9:19 PM

The digging would not have helped the healing, it could have set things back a day or two. Did the vet recommend to keep him confined while he was healing? You don’t want him jumping up and down from steps/surfaces like the couch etc or doing too much running around. If he’s still doing most of his normal activities 10 days is not long enough to heal. Give it more time, another week and you probably won’t notice much of the injury, another week after that and he should be pretty much fully healed. Also keep in mind that older animals do often take longer to heal than younger ones.

Thank you for the quick reply. I’m sure I’m just being paranoid, but I can’t help it. The vet said I shouldn’t keep him stuck in his crate, but I should make sure he doesn’t overdo it while he’s playing. I don’t have any stairs for him to climb, and I’ve been careful to keep him off any furniture he could jump from. He was doing fine and resting nicely until I looked away for two minutes, and he decided to try and dig his way to China. Clearly I need to keep him away from his bed until he heals up. But so far he’s still been playing around the living room, although not quite as much as before. And despite me telling him to rest , he still feels the need to leap around his crate every morning and when I get home from work. Hopefully this is just a combination of a little too much activity and his age, and of course me being way too overprotective.

Posted By Vienna Blue in France on 3/31/2016 6:45 AM
I suspect it will take longer as he’s older anyway, imagine a 70 yr old recovering from a sprained ankle, they won’t be up and running in the same time as a 20 yr old……
Zou did hers when she was about a year old…. she was holding it up for a few days and then got very calm so I shot her to the vets, her temp was sky high (vet said in theory she shouldn’t be alive… but she a big girl fighter!! lol)!
Was it an internal infection caused by the paw, or the paw which caused the infection…?? We’ll never know now.
So after antibiotics she was right as rain again and I suppose took another week or so before she was putting equal pressure on both front paws….

I guess if he was really feeling pain he wouldn’t be leaping around of his own accord….
Just keep an eye on Kiwi’s overall health to make sure there’s no secondary something going on.

Thank you! I’m glad to hear your bunny recovered! I hate to think of him as an old bunny, but I guess he is and I shouldn’t be surprised it will take a while longer to heal. I saw Kiwi holding his paw up a little bit, but overall I think he’s starting to put a little more weight on it. I’ve been keeping him in his crate a little more, since he clearly can’t rest on his own if I don’t. He seems to be a little bored, but if that’s what it takes for him to recover then he will have to deal for a little bit.