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Poppy's eye...

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melaniejb

Mama Doe
I'm a bit worried about Poppy's eye...

I noticed that it looked a bit odd the other day but then the next day it was fine, then I noticed last night it was looking a bit funny but back to normal today. Now this evening it's happened again.

There's no discharge below the eye but the top of it does look a bit wet. She's not squinting, if anything her eye is more open wide (although not bulging...). She doesn't seem bothered about it and it's mainly that you can see more rim of her eye than anything else.

When you look into her eye balls, the left one is normal but her right one does appear to have a slightly cloudy appearance on the top.

Obviously we'll take her to the vets (although we won't be able to take her to our normal rabbit guru vet until next weekend) but does anyone have any ideas of what it might be???? I'm getting quite scared.
 
Bad picture but trying not to use the flash and capture it on all of her...
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Close up
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And this is the normal side - excuse the very annoyed Poppy!
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Her eye is completely normal now. I had to look at the photos to work out which eye was the one with a problem this morning.

Do you think it could be an allergy? And would it be worth waiting until next week when I can see my rabbit savvy vet as opposed to taking her to medivet??? She's not in any obvious pain and as I said - it's COMPLETELY normal now!!! Aghhhhhhhh!
 
My Poppy's eye went like that the other day - I've just brought her back from the vets this morning and he said she had slight ulceration to her eye - Poppy has a cloudy semi-circle around the top of her eye. He's given me some Exocin eye drops that I have to give her every 6 hours and take her back for a check up next week. To start her eye was runny, half closed and had some white gunk inside it. Hope your Poppy gets better soon :wave:
 
So many different things can present with eye symptoms. I think if you are still concerned it would be worth getting it checked out, it may not necessarily need a rabbit savy vet for an initial exam and to rule out obvious causes. I hope her eye feels better soon x
 
Thanks for the replies guys! Annoyingly we couldn't get an appointment for tonight so have got one for Saturday with a totally new vet! Eeeek! Plus we're going to the midlands next weekend so if I'm still worried about it I'll take her to see the rabbit savvy vet. :?

Fingers crossed for us! Luckily she doesn't appear to be in any pain and is not squinting at all.
 
She's going to the vets in half an hour but the eye is back to normal and has been since Thursday...very odd but I guess it's best to have it checked out, although we are using a new vets... :?
 
The vet couldn't see anything wrong with her! We've got some eye drops for her just in case but apparently she's very healthy! Hurrah!

He did say (in a very strong Polish accent) "I thought she was fat but she was just very fluffy!", which did make me laugh!
 
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