Urine soaked feet

[mia]

How can I alleviate the issue (clean, dry, fluff up fur)? The feet looks almost naked, just skin and sparsed out wet fur on it . He’s peeing on the carpet and sitting in it. It’s happened before but his feet wasn’t soaked, just a little wet bottom, and it gradually went away and/or the meds helped.

[tobyluv]

You may need to give your rabbit a bunny butt bath, actually, just bathe his feet, either by using the dry or wet methods explained here:
 http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/buttbath.html
Is it possible that he has a urinary infection or has some other health reason why he ends up sitting in pee? You mentioned medication, but didn’t say what it was for. I wonder if imitation sheepskin or some similar pads would help to wick away the moisture from his feet? If he has free rein of the house, those wouldn’t be practical, but if he is in an x-pen or somehow contained, you could try laying down various moisture wicking pads or piddle pads to absorb the pee and hopefully keep him dryer. Does he not use a litter box at all?

[Zombie-Sue]

That link doesn’t work.

But here is a link that I believe will contain the same information: http://www.disabledrabbits.com/baths–cleaning.html

and another that has some info on urine scald: http://www.disabledrabbits.com/urine-scald.html

[mia]

Already gave him a bath multiple times… I guess I was wondering what to do about him not having fur on his legs; it’s the inside of his legs so I didn’t notice it =/.

He does use the litter box and is very good about it but he goes elsewhere when this started happening. The tests before was inconclusive.

[Isabelle]

For now you might consider confining him to an x-pen for a few days and put down lots of bedding/litter to soak up when he does pee to help prevent his feet from becoming soaked in the first place.

[mia]

They are all confined to their home for now but I don’t understand why he’s sitting in it when there’s lots of other clean dry areas, even areas with tile. Thank goodness the other buns’ feet look fine. Should I wrap it or something? I’ve been cleaning with water and blow drying but it looks awful.

[Zombie-Sue]

There’s lots of information about what to do in those links I posted

[mia]

Yes I read all that. It doesn’t say anything about how to alleviate the fact that there’s no fur and he jumps around like crazy. I’m afraid he’s making it worse for himself with his running and playing with friends.

[Zombie-Sue]

They recommend a cream you can try to keep his feet from getting irritated.

I’d take him to a vet if I were you, too. There could be something wrong with him.

[mia]

Yeah, I saw there’s a giant list of creams but it says to talk to your vet to determine the best one to use so that’s what I was waiting for. Other than neosporin, I don’t even know where to find the rest; tried searching when you posted. Maybe I’ll get that or the corn starch/baby power.
Made an appointment when I found out but first opening isn’t till about a week from now so…

[Zombie-Sue]

Yeah, then all you can pretty much do is keep her clean and as dry as possible until then

[mia]

*sighs* once again, so many tests and still have no idea what’s wrong with him =(.

[BinkyBunny]

What tests did they do?

[mia]

Regular exam – nothing found.

A few urine tests – like last time, it’s diluted. Before there was tiny bit of sugar but thinking that was a false result/he was nervous, as this time it wasn’t there.

Did a panel last time but I started giving him meds from before once I found out so didn’t do it again this time because it might give false results. I don’t really think the meds worked as well as I thought; I think he just got better at hiding his issues though (before he would have his “accidents” in my room and now he doesn’t, or at least not as much) I think it did alleviate it a little bit though but it’s probably because he just like having meds thinking they’re yummy =D.
X-ray – nothing found.
Plan is to continue the meds from before as well as some herbs. Acupuncture and ultrasound was also thrown out as options if I wanted to go further. Money isn’t as much a concern as the fact that I did much more tests for his sneezing and there’s still no answer for that either. Feeling a little defeated.

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