Rabbit Eyes – Two Questions

[MimzMum]

I just get done with one trip to the vet for my bunny, now I may have to take the other two.

One: Mimzy’s right eye is crusting again. And I see he’s still kicking at his jaw with his hind foot alot, and last night his ‘tooth purr’ just sounded a bit too loud for my tastes. So I am going to make an appointment first thing Monday to get him in to be seen this week. I can’t tell myself that the clipping my doc gave him solved the problem, he must have tooth or eye or jaw issues still.

Two: Today I noticed, while they are in the xpen, Pip’s eyes look strange to me. I had my daughter get me the flashlight and I shined it at her eyes, it looks suspiciously grey in reflection, instead of the red one normally sees. Mimzy’s eyes reflect a dull red and they seem to have a bit of grey also, just not as pronounced as Pip’s.

On her, it’s in both eyes though, and I thought if a rabbit is going to develop cataracts, which is what this looks like to me, don’t they usually just get them in one eye at a time..not both at once?

Encroaching blindness would certainly explain Pip’s unwarranted aggressive moments. If I were a prey animal and couldn’t see well, I’d be a little ornery myself.

Comments? Opinions?….Help?

[Beka27]

how is Mimzy eating? i don’t fully remember his tooth thread, did the vet say he is going to need to be filed down regularly? it might be that time again… that would help to explain the eye…

as far as Pip, i have no experience with that, but i think it’s good you’re going to have it checked out. even in the worst case of blindness, she could still live a long and happy life, but i’d see what the vet says…

keep us updated… healthy vibes to everyone!

[MimzMum]

Thanks Beka, yes Mimzy eats just fine, but it’s this heavy scratching he’s doing at his right cheek and ear that bothers me, along with the purring that I fear is actually grinding and the weepy eye. Although today the eye seems fine, I wiped it with a warm water cloth and dried it for him last night, today there/s no sign of crusting.

His ears are both very clean and show no signs of infection. Although now that I think of it, lately I was wondering if he didn’t smell “off”…I can’t describe it rightly enough, but he almost smelled ‘dirty’, as if he’d been playing in something smelly. (It startled me for a moment as it almost smelled like something going bad or rotting and I meant to ask my vet about it.) Normally he doesn’t smell like anything at all, unlike my other pets, so I noticed it right away that he suddenly smelled like “something” and then the next day I think, it was gone. It went away and I haven’t smelled it since…but then I’m having sinus problems so I may not be picking it up anymore. Perhaps he just was sitting too close to the garbage bag while in the xpen that day or soemthing.

But then, I’m trying to remember, was that before or after he went in for his latest nail trim?? I would’ve thought the vet would notice it if so. See, my mnemonic skills are lacking as of late. But he doesn’t appear to be ill, I know that’s not something to rely on, but other than the scratching, the eye and the noises I haven’t noticed anything chronically wrong with him.

It was the front teeth that got clipped and I haven’t been able to invert him long enough to check them, but it wasn’t that long ago that he was seen. I can’t imagine it would be time again so quickly.
I’m hoping it’s not a molar issue, but-since my vet said if he had any further trouble we’d have to look into it-that the possibility this time is that he’d be put under to examine/treat him if necessary. Can you tell me if this is a big deal for a bunny? Any harder to deal with than his neuter? Not as hard for him? I think this is what worries me most and my vet too apparently, as she wants to avoid having to anesthetize him.

[Sarita]

Well I have an older rabbit with cloudy eyes – it’s usually a sign of cataracts I believe but that is age related from what I understand.

I have had many rabbits who have had to had their molars trimmed and they do have to be put under anaesthesia – it’s usually a isoflourine which is I think much like the gas we get at the vets but there is no way for them to trim and actually see those little bitty molars to trim them without doing this.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Chucks eye has the white cataract look to it too…{{VIBES}} For pip!

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