Fur loss, vet not helping!

[charlxotte]

Hi, wondering if anybody has had a similar problem/ can recommend anything?

My bunny has been losing fur for a year now, with dry flaky skin, we never see her pull out the fur, it just falls out. We think it’s cheyletiella, it begun when I purchased bedding from a different store than usual, her skin hasn’t been the same ever since. I’ve been using a flea comb and xeno 450 to get as much of the dry flakes out as I possibly can, but it seems impossible. Her fur is growing back in clumps and feels really hard and rough which isn’t how she normally feels as a thick, fluffy lion head.

I’ve been back and forth to the vets countless times. I feel like I’m running out of options. My vet has not been much help, only doing standard health checks which I could do myself as I studied animal welfare for 3 years.

She’s still acting herself apart from the fact her belly has basically no fur on it, and the fur on her feet has also been falling out meaning she has sore hocks and she doesn’t run around like she used to 😭

[BinkyBunny]

I had a bunny that would get dermatitis and lose fur in specific places.  We weren’t sure the cause as tests didn’t reveal mites or anything.  Just unrevealing irritation.  Some bunnies can be allergic to different things.  Some hays will have a small amount of weeds that are intermixed and that can cause allergies.  (according to my rabbit savvy vet).  you could try changing the hay.   So it could be an allergic reaction to bedding too.   Did the vet test for mites?  Just making sure that was ruled out.

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