Who’s Bleeding?

[angelicvampyre]

I have no clue and it’s annoying me!  I have been cleaning cages all afternoon as i am going away tomorrow for three days and I have a bunny savey friend coming in to look after my brood but I thought I would clean all the cages for him.  So i have done Anya and Bugz and had moved onto Miffy and about an hour after i start (I take breaks as this allows them to have a longer period of time out of the cage) I notice that Miffy has red stuff on one hind leg, so I try and look at it but she runs away from me.  Finally i catch her and sure enough she has blood on her fur, but it is not from her, it’s only on the tip of the fur, so i check both other animals, all the edges of the cage and the room and FINALLY find a small smudge on a skirting board but nothing to explain where this blood came from  now I am worried and confused!

[Karla]

Could a nail have broken? That can leave a little bit of blood around the room.

[Deleted User]

Just a question as I don’t know the status of your bunnies with each other (bonded or separate); could another bunny have sprayed at Miffy with pigmented urine? I had a rabbit that did that and when it hit Roger, a broken-white lop, it looked like blood on his fur tips.
But defiinitely check the nails as Karla suggested, too.

[wendyzski]

I’d check a nail – those can bleed like crazy!  I accidentally nicked the quick of a rather active foster-bun’s nail and by the time I recaptured him the place looked like a murder scene!

[angelicvampyre]

Pezty – did not know they could do this! That might be it. it would have had to been Bugz as all the rabbits are in the same room in seperate cages and each let out for a period of time each day on a roster system so they all have time out in the morning, during the day and at night. Bugz and Miffy can sit next to each others cages when they are out (Anya can’t as she is up high) so maybe that is it.

I checked all their nails (that was my first thought) but nothing… The mysteries of owning rabbits!

[TARM]

Oh man, I quicked a nail on a bunny once, didn’t notice, and held the bunny while I took a phone call and when I noticed the bleeding it had soaked into my shirt, all up the bunny’s leg…it looked like I killed someone and didn’t take a shower!

[angelicvampyre]

Tarm least if it was like that I might have been able to find the source it was such a small amount and only on Miffy and a little on the wall and that was it.

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