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Is ivermectin a good treatment for ear mites? I just read it was online. I have ivermectin i use it to deworm guinea pigs. 

Hormonal behaviour changes can be related to illness, but not necessarily. If you’re in the northern hemisphere spring can bring on hormonal behaviours as well, even in neutered rabbits. So that could possibly play a part.

In relation to the kidneys I’m afraid I can’t help with the x-ray. My Luna has severely damaged kidneys from E.c but on x-ray…[Read more]

Do they get fleas often? This bunny was in a small plastic crate up against another baby bunny at a live stock auction. So who knows what he could have got. But I know for large animals a vet comes there and gives them all their shots and examines them but im not sure if they do rabbits.

It looks like something is going on. If you just got him, it would be good to have a vet take a look at him anyway. He looks young in the video. My guess is that it could be ear mites, which are hard to see unless the infestation is REALLY bad. Revolution is the best treatment, which is only available through a vet in the US.

PSA: Never use…[Read more]

I haven’t noticed any molting, but he might be starting to from under his bottom and belly and I just have seen it yet.

Thanks so much for the reassurance. We’ve gone through stasis twice before (one required a trip to an ER 2 hours away on a weekend). Both times he had the characteristic signs.

If anything, he’s been even more energetic than usual and is totally ticked off that we took his pellets and regular treats. Such a spoiled little imp. 🙄 Stress may…[Read more]

Also didnt mention but now that I think of it maybe i should…

lately Harchie is acting very horny. Yep… a neutered male rabbit! When we wanted to bond him to our other male (also neutered) named Max years ago, he would hump him and Max was terrified. We wrote it off as a dominance thing and decided better they not be friends! LoL.

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He has never had EC. No other symptoms like head tilt, leg paralysis, etc.

It’s blood test to check correct? For the titer right? But i heard if its negative, its negative but if its positive it doesnt necessarily mean positive?

I would only worry can the treatment fenbendazole cause issues like with bone marrow in case he doesnt have EC?

Does he have a history of EC? When you think of kidney issues in rabbits, you tend to think EC first. There are treatments for kidney disease. @Azerane has some recent experience with this.

Hi, thank you so much! Regarding Gideon’s body language because that’ll be the quickest thing to respond to: it seems that none of my bunnies are very good with body language?? I mostly get worried because sometimes he goes into what I’ve started calling “torpedo form” — ears not quite pinned back, but noticeably angled pretty far backwards, but…[Read more]

Thank you both for these responses!

Bam — She was allegedly spayed before I got her, but I was thinking the same thing about a botched spay. It was very reassuring that you made this point, though, as most of the people I’ve talked to seemed entirely unconvinced of this possibility since there apparently is a low but nonzero chance of a spayed…[Read more]

Is he by chance molting? Sometimes we get small poos during a molt but thankfully it keeps moving and they keep eating.