Looking for shears

[mia]

Anyone know what kind of shears works for bunnies?

I’ve only been able to find info on shaving or trimming buns, which I’m not interested. Want to keep my bun as natural as possible but help with the heat and grooming. It’s not even super warm but she doesn’t feel well (lays around when usually bouncing off walls). She’s also molting as same time and that also doesn’t make her feel well. Last time she lost a ton of weight and now she has stringy poop despite being a super hay eater

[LBJ10]

They sell them for dogs. But you’d need to be extremely careful with them.

[mia]

Yes but what kind? I heard that rabbit fur can’t necessarily use same as cats/dogs.

Also, how? I can only find info for shaving and trimming. Or does one just do it like cutting/thinning out human hair?

[LBJ10]

It depends on the fur type. What are we dealing with? If it’s wool with guard hairs, then I would not recommend the thinning shears. Those seem to just make matting worse. I would use trimming shears that were basically just like regular scissors. Like I said, you need to be very careful though because there isn’t any kind of guard to prevent you from accidentally cutting bunny.

I also used “manscaping” type trimmers to shorten fur (rather than actually shaving). I would simply use my fingers on the opposite hand to hold a clump of fur and then I would only “shave” off the top portion… then repeat. I typically didn’t trim him all over though, it was mostly just around his rear. I would use a hairbuster comb to groom the rest. He had guard hairs though, so it’s a little different than plain wool.

[mia]

I’d like to thin out my Lionhead’s mane, basically all around face, but the sides the most important (ahhh, whiskers!). It’s much much thicker than other lionheads I’ve dealt with. I don’t think there’s guard hairs in mane. Very little gets hairbusted out; tons of fur from rest of body with hairbuster. I have other brushes too but I don’t think that’s the issue. It’s just naturally super thick.

I’m also open to other ideas because I’d rather not do this :). Could do lots of dreadlocks…

[LBJ10]

Hmm… lionhead mane is different than wool. I wonder if thinning shears would work…

[mia]

Yes, that’s what I meant by shears. I guess I’ll just try and see. I actually saw a video where they just trim all around similar bun with normal scissors 😯

[LBJ10]

Thinning shears have the teeth on them. They just thin out the fur. Trimming shears would be more like regular scissors. I think you could try the thinning shears and see if it causes the fur to mat. Like I said, they did not work well with wool. But lionhead mane fur is a different texture.

[mia]

I accidentally adopted a monster… They call him a lionhead he’s really some sort of monster. He is groomed significantly down so I got tricked.

Anyway, I bought small scissors and thinning shears. I tried practicing a little on the bun that this post was for using regular scissors and it barely cut anything (fur way too thick and fine) so I really hope the ones I bought will work.

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