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Rabbit abscess

Graeme27Uk

Warren Scout
How can you identify an abscess?

It's not our rabbits but a family member whose rabbit has a reddish lump under its chin and around its groin.

We are concerned about its welfare as they don't tend him very well.
 
I know my buns got lumps when they had myxi. It sounds like this little furball needs to see a vet, whatever is wrong with him.

If they don't look after him very well could you maybe take him to a vet?
 
We want to rescue him as we have a single bunny (was a trio but Cookie decided to make a break for Alpha Doe... and lost).

So we would like to have him to bond to Cookie so she is has a bunny to play with. Whilst we play with her currently, it's not quite the same.

Our other 2 are loved up and trying to rebond her to them is not going to work (Smudge remembers the fight).


But his owners (brother and sister in laws) won't relinquish their ownership of him to us. But they have left him for 9 days without being cleaned out, he is in a small hutch, and they used to just feed him museli with not much hay or even bedding!!! :censored:

We are continually applying pressure to rehome him to us.
 
As there is one in the genital area as well as the mouth it could be Vent disease.

It is imperative for the rabbit to see a vet asap for a proper diagnosis.
 
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