Deep bite wound

[FluffyBunny]

I’ve really had no health-related luck with the bunnies lately.

As some of you may know from my bonding thread, my bunnies had a big fight several days ago after the female bunny, Ms. Rabbit, escaped into the room of the male rabbit, Mr. Bunny.

Well, I originally thought that neither rabbit had serious injuries, but the day after the fight, I discovered two rather large scabs on Ms. Rabbit’s back. They seemed to be healing well, and they were already dried out and scabbed over, so I left them alone.

So now, a few days later, I checked on the scabs again.

One of the scabs is very strangely shaped – it looks almost like a scab formed around a wavy piece of fabric.

The other scab – rather, where there used to be a scab – is my main concern. I had originally thought that the scabs didn’t go very deep, since neither rabbit had any bleeding when I examined them after the fight. That’s obviously not true, since the place where one of the scabs used to be is the deepest wound I’ve seen on a rabbit. It seems that Ms. Rabbit bit off the scab before it had finished healing, and the wound was covered in a very thin crust. As I examined it, the crust broke a little bit and it started bleeding a tiny bit. The cut didn’t seem to be infected (although the skin was just a little red on one side), but it’s a seriously deep cut.

Here are a couple of pictures of it. It’s much worse looking in real life. You can’t really see how deep or large it is in these pics.

Does this need to be checked out?

[mrmac]

The photos don’t ‘look’ bad but I know how much different it is in person. I would just keep an eye on them for now. You can use some saline to wash it a few times a day and apply neosporin (not the pain relief kind, just the clear ointment or vaseline) and try to keep her from messing with it. If it starts getting bumpy underneath the scab feeling then go have it checked but it should heal fine on its own.

[Lintini]

I’ve felt that wrinkly skin before on Bagheera when he escaped and Bee had a brawl with him. *rolls eyes and shakes fist at Bumblebrat* Of course I wasn’t home when it happened, I was on vacation with my grandparents and my brother found him out of the cage somehow. Anywho…I gave him a check over when I got home, and after killing my brother, I saw tiny scabs and that weird wrinkly skin too.

Keep an eye on the scabbies, and I wish Mrs Bunny (the are married now right? ) fast healing!

[BinkyBunny]

What you will have to watch carefully for is abscesses forming at the wound. If the wound is already healing properly right now then it’s probabally okay. Antibiotics from a vet can be given as a preventative measure if you are worried. But if you do decide to wait, just be sure to check the wound every day, (of course, allow it  to heal, don’t pick),  but the moment you see any kind of infection, (swelling, pus, redness increasing) then you will need to take your bunny to the vet as abscesses can grow very fast and get very nasty!   Bailey and Rucy got into a fight and I didn’t notice a bite wound — it got infected and an abscess grew quickly. She had to have it surgically removed as abscesses can attach to muscle and bone. $800 later! I sure wish I would have looked more carefully and caught it early like you did. So keep a close eye!

 

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Ditto BB about the abscesses. Rabbits (from what I know) heal a little differently then most other mammals-they’ll get an abscess (like we and others do) however they drain the fluid out rather then the whole abscess draining-and what you are left with is hard dry abscess (wherein lies the difference from most animals to rabbits)-so abscesses typically need medical treatment.
To watch for an abscess you’ll kind of (with clean hands) manipulate the wound and see if you feel a pocket underneath-almost like a zit would feel That’s an infected pocket-an abscess and they usually need to be seen by a vet.
And of course watch for infection.

TBH-I’d say go with your gut. If you think it’s a watch and wait then do so, but if you feel this could be bigger then that-I’d go in just in case {{ms. rabbit}}

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