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Eyes / Eyesight question

T

tigerbabe

Mama Doe
Poppy had some sort of injury or problem with her eye before she came to me. The general opinion of myself and the rescue she came from is she can't see much if anything out of her right eye. It's got a white mark as though from an old trauma and the eye is cloudy. It doesn't cause her any problems and the only difference it seems to make is she growls first and ask questions later if anything happens on that side of her.

I took some pictures of the buns today and when I was looking at the on the pc I noticed something. Her right eye (the cloudy one) shows up as abit cloudy in pictures taken with the flash....
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Her left eye goes red, but it has lines in it. I'm wondering if that could mean she has something going on with that one too which maybe affects her vision...
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I'm not worried about her or anything and I don't think it's something that needs a vet visit, although I might have a word with the vet when she goes for her next vaccination. I just thought it was strange and wanted another opinion or 2 :rolleyes: :oops:
 
I would advise you ask your Vet to check Poppy's eyes. She may have cataracts which can be the result of damage to the lens caused by EC.
Your Vet will also be able to check Poppy's Retina for signs of abnormalities

Janex
 
My doe has a cataract in one eye and it doesn't bother her. In fact in...7 or so months of life it's only bothered her once and she learned from that.

Rabbits sense of vision isn't that strong compared to hearing & smell and so rabbits can get on quite well even though they are partially/fully blind.
 
I realised when I was out with her earlier that I've got it the wrong way round :oops: It's her cloudy eye that shows up as red and the normal looking one that doesn't. I will get the vet to check them out.
 
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