Snuffles-Is this the end of Future Bonding?

[A Happy Herd of Hares]

I’m SO sorry to make ANOTHER thread.

So, Fitz is getting over snuffles and I was going to neuter him and try to bond Magpie and him.
BUT.
I’ve been hearing snuffles never truly goes away, and it’s always contagious.
So does that mean this is the end of Bunny dating before it started, so that Magpie doesn’t get
snuffles?

[Bunny House]

Depending on the infection (pasturella) can be there forever, and when you have multiples buns, you probably cross contaminate and pet them and they injest the bacteria so they probably have it but have good immune systems. My one bun had it and gave it to my others, they never show flare ups but it’s almost inevitable that it spreads.
So it’s up to you if you want to try and bond them, I don’t see an issue doing it but it’s up to you!

[Asriel and Bombur]

I agree with BH. It’s like EC in that way. A bunny will always have EC, and if you have two bonded bunnies, odds are one of them has ingested spores from an active infection just by eating hay from the litter box or something similar.

[LBJ10]

I agree, she probably already has it.

[A Happy Herd of Hares]

Ok.
They haven’t ever met though, and they’re in two separate areas. I never cross contaminate and I even change clothes before holding magpie. I guess she may, I don’t really think she does though

[Bam]

Most rabbits actually do carry pasteurella bacteria in their nasal cavities. It’s more or less considered normal for rabbits. It’s often no use to do a culture for snuffles because you alwyas find pasteurella and that doesn’t mean pasteurella is causing the snuffles. So most vets prescribe enrofloxacine (pasteurella is sensitive to enrofloxacine) and don’t do a culture unless the enrofloxacine doesn’t help.

It could be like fur mites and EC – the majority of buns have been exposed, many, if not most, buns are carriers, some buns get sick, the majority don’t, and it’s not fully understood why. There are probably genetic components as well as environmental stressors.

[A Happy Herd of Hares]

He got baytril and that cleared it in two days, I’ve heard that I just don’t want it to surface from binding them, I don’t know what I’ll end up doing…

[LBJ10]

I wouldn’t worry too much about it to be honest. I can’t tell you how many URIs Wooly has had in his lifetime. And Leopold has had zero.

[Bunny House]

You can think of it like this, when a flu season comes, some people don’t get sick and some do, when they all have the same bacteria in them. Some immune system systems fight it and some don’t and they get sicks. As Bam said, pretty much all rabbits have it so I wouldn’t be cautious. Now if it was like a very destructive disease like RHD2, then of course I would keep them separated.

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