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Early stage hock sores i Think?

yoshi&gizmo

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Hi Fellow RU friends

Just wondered if anyone can help me with dear little gizmo AGAIN :roll:
If you have seen my other posts on here you will see this rabbit seems to be very unlucky. :roll: Just been vets and had a dental and when he was in i asked them to check his heal as he has had a small redish pinkish dry looking scabby thing on his heal[ the size of a pea]. The vet said it could be a hock sore but it isn't infected and to keep a eye on it.
Well i have been checking it each week when grooming him [not that i EVER would groom him back feet of course] and just been checking it to make sure it isn't any worse. However today when i looked it scabby thing is bigger [like maybe the size of 2 peas now] and the other heal seems to be getting one too [size of a pea]
Just wondering is there anything i can do to help him i don't want him suffering with this too. :( He seems to have plenty of fur on his back feet [proper little tuffties on the sides :lol:]
he has a wood base hutch not wire. He has a blacket downstairs of his hutch to lay on and has a towel and paper bedding [as yoshi is allegic to straw so we switched gizmo to soft paper bedding too] in his bed. He does come in and the whole house is carpet he plays in the garden to.
He weighs 2.1kg and is a lion lop. please let me know anything that may help. Don't want to have to take him to the vets again :roll: but will if i have too.
Thanks
 
I don't have much advice but last night I noticed Bella-our lop has little circular patches of pink fur on her heels. We got her from Erin who said that she has had them for a while and that they haven't got any worse. I'm just going to keep an eye on them.

I found a thread that had some info about prevention...
http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?t=172259&highlight=sore+hocks

I'm not sure if the vets can do anything to prevent hocks developing, but I think keeping them on comfortable surfaces and their hutch clean and dry, keeping their nails short and their weight down will all help. I think having lots of soft hay for Gizmo to stand on is also kind on his hocks.

I hope they don't get any worse and that they don't open, if they do-it's off to the vets asap. Poor little Gizmo!
 
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