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- 08/27/2008 at 8:01 AM
  Graeme27uk
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  How can you help bunnies prevent their back teeth developing spurs?
  
  Ours eat loads of hay, and hard stuff that we give them.
  
  Front teeth are perfect, its just the molars at the back.
- 08/27/2008 at 8:18 AM
  MarkBun
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  The hay is the best way. Sometimes buns just develop spurs – especially the smaller breeds. My Maryann has done this and I’ll needta take her to the vet in a couple of months to have work done on them.
- 08/27/2008 at 8:44 AM
  Sarita
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  Sometimes you can also control this with the regular molar trims so that eventually you will do the trims less frequently – sometimes it’s an alignment problem too so no matter how much hay they eat that will not help.
- 08/27/2008 at 2:01 PM
  Graeme27uk
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  Frosty eats LOADS of hay… i couldn’t stuff more down him (not that I would of course!).
  
  When we got him he wasn’t well looked after by the breeder and he had BIG teeth issues, hence why we rescued him as the original owner didn’t even notice!
  
  So maybe its just him being him.
- 08/28/2008 at 12:46 PM
  laylalover
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  Our vet said in smaller “headed” buns (layla’s head in teeny, but her bum is big – hee hee) it’s quite common but it needs to be taken care of! good luck
- 08/28/2008 at 11:48 PM
  Graeme27uk
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  Oh he has been “done” in the teeth department so its not that I am asking about as I would never leave him with bad teeth. Just wondering how to stop this happening again.
  
  He’s a dwarf lop/mini lop cross we think, though maybe just a dwarf lop.
- 08/29/2008 at 3:34 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  im not sure there is really much per se that can be done, just as long as they have plenty of hay and things, it should be fine
- 08/29/2008 at 5:27 AM
  Sarita
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  The only thing you may be able to do is regular tooth trims. Sometimes once the vet gets it under control you may eventually have to go less and less for trims but even hay isn’t going to help with certain dental problems.
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