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Wee accident resulting is sore foot

Crunchie

Crunchie

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I was letting the rabbits run around in the garden as usual and had left the back door open by addient. I was in the house when I heard the door being blown in but it did not shut. I checked outside and Honey was sitting just outside the door looking a bit shocked.

I paniced as I thought the door must have been blown shut on her as she tried to come in and I think I was right. She is now running around the garden holding one of her front paws off the ground some of the time. She can move the foot OK as she pulled it away when I had her in my arms she just doesn't seem to want to put it on the ground some of the time. She is currently still running around the garden eating the grass.

Should I try and take her to an emergency vet today or should I just keep an eye on her?:cry:
 
Personally if this was me i'd see how she is and if she isn't any better by tomorrow i'd take her straight to the vets.

I wouldn't take her to the emergency vets because its not a life or death problem, i wouldn't think leaving her one day would harm her much and it could be she just bruised it. Do you think she is in alot of pain?
 
She's still hopping around the garden, she's putting it down a bit more gingerly than her other paw but apart from that she's behaving normally.

Came rushing up with Roly to get a treat just then.:lol:
 
sound like she will be OK. It is horrid when it happens, esp out of hours. if she is no better in the morning I would take her to the vet just to be on the safe side.
 
Yes i agree :) I don't think it sounds like she's done anything too bad like broken it otherwise she woudn't use it at all. She probs just got it banged on the door. You know what animals are like.. they tend to refuse to use a limb even when it's stopped hurting so you can never tell if it actually hurts or if it's phsycological lmao!
 
Thanks for the advice guys, she seems to be stepping on it a little better now. I'll be at work tomorrow but I'll ask my mum to keep an eye on her.
 
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