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Wet Eye - Could it be his bedding?

Cari

Warren Veteran
My bunny lives indoors and when I adopted him his owners told me to use sawdust in his cage. Recently his right cheek is wet around his eye and I've read that sawdust can make eyes sore, is this true? Should I take him to the vets or just change bedding and see if it clears up? What should I use instead?
 
I would take him to the Vets and I would also change from sawdust to a paper based bedding or megasorb.

As it is just one eye that is effected it is more likely to be infection, possibly related to Dental problems, rather than an allergy. But sawdust is best avoided anyway

Good luck at the Vets
 
I agree with Jane, best have a vets visit asap, sawdust is bad but it shouldnt cause proper eye weeping. It could also be the beginning of snuffles or problems with tooth roots.
 
wet eye.

hi, silver came with an on off running eye, we had him vet checked and took away the wood shavings, I ordered some vet bed off ebay and put it in his cage and hutch, however he seemed to initially really dislike the vet bed so we ended up with a 75 % vetbed and 25% woodshavings mix and his eye has been fine ever since, he is slowly getting used to the vetbed but im pleased with the results.x
 
Wet Eye - Could it be his bedding? UPDATE

Took little Stephen to the vets, who said it is just a case of conjunctivitis. He popped some dye onto his eye to rule out ulcers and said their is nothing wrong with his teeth but to keep an eye on it as it may be a blocked tear duct and he might have to be sedated and have it flushed (scary :(). I have some antibiotic eyedrops if anyone has any tips as to how to put them in without terrifying him?

He has not been a happy bunny since he came back from the vets, I think he's in a grump with me.
 
Took little Stephen to the vets, who said it is just a case of conjunctivitis. He popped some dye onto his eye to rule out ulcers and said their is nothing wrong with his teeth but to keep an eye on it as it may be a blocked tear duct and he might have to be sedated and have it flushed (scary :(). I have some antibiotic eyedrops if anyone has any tips as to how to put them in without terrifying him?

He has not been a happy bunny since he came back from the vets, I think he's in a grump with me.

My Barney had eyedrops before his snuffles was diagnosed as snuffles. He really loves cuddles, so I got him used to me sort of kneeling and leaning over him on the floor and stroking him, then when he was relaxed I could hold him gently but firmly in place with my arms. There was nowhere for him to back out to, and my arms stopped him from going to the sides, he wouldnt go forwards as that was where my hands with the eyedrops were, and I did the eyedrops very quickly with my hands and then gave him lots of cuddles and a big treat. As for actually putting them in, I used the hand on the same side as the eye I was doing to hold the eye open whilst I used the opposite hand to the eye to put in the drops, steadying it by resting my wrist on top of the rabbits head/neck.

I hope that makes sense. It was all cuddling with only 30 seconds or so of eyedrops, so a lot less stressful for him than picking him up. If you have someone to help you another way might be to get them to hold the rabbit on their knee whilst you quickly do the drops.
 
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