Hello,
I have recently adopted a 3 footed bunny Nubsie, and her bonded pal Chubsie. The woman I got her from said her mother chewed off her back left foot and her brothers ears when she was under stress shortly after the buns were born. To describe it, it'd be as if she got her leg cut right below the knee. I'm not sure if this is a health or housing question, but she told me to keep carpet in the cage and that she had cardboard under the cage (which is made from those coated wire shelving unit pieces). I didn't want my new buns to be uncomfortable at all, and shortly after having them realized they were very well litter trained so I set up the cage on my carpeted floor with carpet on the other levels of the cage too. A few days ago I started to notice some redness on the nub where there is no fur. I know she uses it some when she hops around, but mostly just uses her other foot balanced in the middle of her body. The back foot that she does have is losing some fur on the heel. I don't know if it is sore hocks or not, I know this one back foot has a lot of stress on it and she also can't quite groom it properly because she can't balance on her nub to "comb" the fur the right way, so it's kind of parted in the middle of her heel. I'm concerned that she may be in pain, although she doesn't show it and want to know what else I can do to make her more comfortable. I tried putting towels on the floor to make it softer but Chubsie, her boyfriend, doesn't like them and digs them and moves them away into a pile.
I have recently adopted a 3 footed bunny Nubsie, and her bonded pal Chubsie. The woman I got her from said her mother chewed off her back left foot and her brothers ears when she was under stress shortly after the buns were born. To describe it, it'd be as if she got her leg cut right below the knee. I'm not sure if this is a health or housing question, but she told me to keep carpet in the cage and that she had cardboard under the cage (which is made from those coated wire shelving unit pieces). I didn't want my new buns to be uncomfortable at all, and shortly after having them realized they were very well litter trained so I set up the cage on my carpeted floor with carpet on the other levels of the cage too. A few days ago I started to notice some redness on the nub where there is no fur. I know she uses it some when she hops around, but mostly just uses her other foot balanced in the middle of her body. The back foot that she does have is losing some fur on the heel. I don't know if it is sore hocks or not, I know this one back foot has a lot of stress on it and she also can't quite groom it properly because she can't balance on her nub to "comb" the fur the right way, so it's kind of parted in the middle of her heel. I'm concerned that she may be in pain, although she doesn't show it and want to know what else I can do to make her more comfortable. I tried putting towels on the floor to make it softer but Chubsie, her boyfriend, doesn't like them and digs them and moves them away into a pile.
