Bunny scared me!

[SambucaSparkles]

Hi!
This is my first post.
I have 3, one year old rescue bunnies, i got them at 8 months old. They are called, Astral, Lunar and Nova. Beautiful lion head crosses.
Nova & Lunar contracted e-cuniculi when they were 3 months old and were treated successfully. Nova was been left with a small but pretty constant movement of her head from side to side. But the vets were happy she isn’t suffering. So we adopted them.
We had some re bonding trouble after they were spayed, but no other issues.

I came home tonight and they were all fine, when half an hour ago, Lunar comes running across the room, pretty fast, but on three legs, holding her front right paw up, and her head slightly tilted to the right and her right ear hanging down. She looked in a bad way! I was really worried. I called her over and she came and ate food out of my hand. When I tried to take a closer look at her, she speed off limping. I was getting upset and trying to decide what to do. When she started cleaning her face, she wasn’t tilted and then she finished washing and hopped off normally!
She has been fine since.

Any ideas?

Is the e-cuniculi back?
Is it a weird symptom left over like her sisters, that I’ve never seen before?
Or could she have slept funny and got a trapped nerve or a dead leg or something?

Any advice would be appreciated

[LeahM]

I’m so sorry, that sounds scary!

I’m no expert, I only have one bunny and he is my only experience.

A few months ago I was cleaning under the bed which always gets him VERY excited. He was under there with me tearing around and then got into a tight spot and had to back up. He kind of jumped and then started “walking” away (rather than hopping) and using his back leg very strangely then basically collapsed and was panting. I was so terrified. I thought he was going to die right before my eyes.

I scooped him up and held him for several minutes and his breathing slowed down. I started slowly moving the joints in his legs and one of his back legs audibly “popped”. I held him and massaged him a little longer and very timidly set him down. He hopped off normally with no signs of that ever since. I think is was a pinch or a little dislocation or something. It was so scary but he seems fine now.

[SambucaSparkles]

I have been scouring the internet, and read about dislocation, but seemed unlikely for a front leg…..

Checked on her in the night and this morning and so far she is acting normally.

[LBJ10]

Sometimes seizures manifest in unusual ways in rabbits. That’s the only thing I can think of. You haven’t noticed any other symptoms at all? What you’re describing is definitely unusual.

[SambucaSparkles]

Nothing else at all, and since then she has been acting normally

[SambucaSparkles]

Nothing else at all, and since then she has been acting normally

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