Still a little bald spot-for almost 3 months??

[MimzMum]

Poor Mimz. I snipped him down to almost velvet on his right shoulder waaay back at the end of January when we’d spilled that Pen-G on him. It’s a spot about the size of a silver dollar. And to this date, it has not grown back flush with the rest of his coat.

Any suggestions? Can I do anything to help it grow back? Is he always going to be bald here??

BTW, he’s gone through a few small sheds since then. He does not blow his coat much. I’d hoped that would stimulate fur growth here, but…no luck.

[mocha200]

mocha got a big cut from his out door hutch before he was a indoor bunny and his fur still hasn’t grown back ether and he just went through a big shed. ( but the cut was actually a good thing cuz after that i started crying saying his house wasn’t safe any more and he never went back outside.) but i would like to get his fur grown back to.

[MimzMum]

Mocha is your lop, right? I wonder if it’s just a lop thing?

[RabbitPam]

My brother has the same problem. He keeps asking if there’s anything he can do to get his hair to grow back. It’s probably just a guy thing.

I think I would learn to love the soft, downy spot of baby fuzz. If it grows back, wonderful, but it’s not looking good for it so as long as the skin is protected somewhat, it’s a small price to pay for him feeling better from the treatments.

[MimzMum]

Oh gosh…really, Pam? Not at all? 0_o
Geez, now I feel worse.

I mean, yeah, the skin is covered but…I dunno. I like symmetry. lol…

Hogeeze, don’t tell me it’s male bun pattern baldness…
…and yeah, my dad has no hair, nor does hubby’s dad, so it’s not looking good for my son either. He’s already losing and is worried about his receding hairline at 20! Your bro has my sympathies. *shakes head sadly*

[KatnipCrzy]

MM- I think that it will grow back but it will take all of the short hair to normally shed out to do so.  I have noticed on bunny spays that the shaved area (rectangle area) does not grow back quickly at all- but the incision grows hair back quickly.   I think the bunnys system is trying to be as effiicient as possible by healing the incision and regrowing hair as the body recognized that as “trauma”- but the other area that was shaved for sterile prep for spay is not seen as something the body needs to correct right away.

I have only ever noticed this in rabbits.  Cats and dogs seem to regrow their surgery prep area fur back evenly and quickly- where both Cotton and Penny had the obvious rectangle with a line of full grown hair right in the middle where the incision was.

[Monkeybun]

Monkey’s bald patch took forever to grow back in… dont think it was there fully til after her massive shed

[MimzMum]

That was what was so heartbreaking about my dogs, they had so many surgeries last year and the spots on their legs where they shave for the IV never fully grew back on the younger dog. Of course Shadow had a full body shave in February of 2009 and only right before he passed away last month did he even look like himself again. The back fur in particular would not come back fully.

I just want to be sure it’s not environmental…or that he’s ill. He is sneezing more again and seems a little depressed. I took him out on my bed last night to spend some quality snuggle time and he seemed to be dribbling urine, but it was all in his box this morning, so I don’t know. He just seems…off. So I’m thinking the fur may be a symptom of something else.

[RabbitPam]

My bro has the rim, which is typical in male pattern baldness. Like grandfather, uncle, cousin – all on mother’s side so naturally he’s bald. He had straight, shoulder length hair in high school. My folks let him grow it as long as he wanted because they knew he’d be George-from-Seinfeld-type bald by 25. He was. I thought that was cool of them, considering the administrators at the high school gave long haired boys a hard time. (It was the 70s.)

Have you considered doing anything more radical, like switching the buns habitats to the opposite side of the room, and rotating the bed to a different wall? Maybe there’s something accumulated that you can’t see that’s setting him off. If nothing else, it’s good Feng Shui to move it around a bit. Just wondering if a vent is on him, or a dust bunny under him, etc. No offense meant for your housekeeping, just thinking a little rotation in the environment might help.

[mocha200]

yeah he is a lop

[mocha200]

oh wait? we are talking about a human?

[MimzMum]

lolz, Mocha we’ve been talking about both, but mostly Mimzy, yes he is my Holland lop. I find that the lops tend to have similar physical anomalies, the main one being the runny nose. But I did snip a spot on his shoulder at the end of January that is still showing just the velvety fluff and no guard hair at all….really bugs me.

No offense taken Pam, actually I am a terrible housekeeeper and I’m sure there is dust I am not seeing. (and a whole bunch I can see) My room is starting to get a bit of a ‘musty’ feel to it and so we’ve been opening windows on days when there is less of a cold blast coming through. I’m actually looking forward to cleaning up the xpen and taking Mimz outdoors as soon as the snow is all gone. He looks like he could really use the pick-me-up.

As soon as hub is feeling better (that gum surgery has really messed him up) we’ll be taking stuff out of the house and over to his (now empty) pizza place and having some serious garage sales. The house is just too full of junk that we don’t use anymore and it needs airing out after the long winters.
I have to admit, I hate holding these because you always get people either trying to talk you down out of 0.25 cents for a used paperback or outright stealing something from you while your back is turned. That drives me up the wall.

Anyway, I wish I’d taken films of Mimzy’s “bed time” last night…he ran right over to Fiver and puddled at his door for pets. I have to rub both their noses (Fiver’s through the bars) while they sit there, or Fiver will get up and get restless. But Mimzy seems to love to be there.

Perhaps he is longing to bond with another bun and is showing me by being the little sad sack he is lately (and not growing his hair too)?

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