My 12 week old bunny fell, will he be ok?

I had 2 baby bunnies bought for me day before yesterday and its the first time i ever came across a pet. The other day, my hubby tried to pick thumper up to get him back to his cage, then he struggled and fell from about 50cm high. i was very concerned and he seemed to be fine. But today the other rabbit, bunny happened to fall from a hight about 85 cm. I was trying to clip his nails on the worktop and he just struggled. while he fell, he supported onto the towel i was holding but he kinda sat there on the floor. he usually jumps out of my sofa from about 35cm but im worried 85 is too high and he was not expecting the fall and was not prepared for it. the guys at the pet shop where i bought him told me that if rabbits are scared too much, they get ill...now bunny just gone straight into his cage after 5 mins of fall and ate some hay..now he just sleeps on the corner.for the past 2 days, he loved going around the room with thumper and wont go into the cage before thumper..i tried to check him by patting on his body to se any bones broken and he was making some chatter sounds with his teeth.

im worried that he may be absolutely scared that he may get ill
or he may have broken bones( he ran about for a couple of minutes after the fall) no limping or anything. will rabbits limp with broken bones?

hes sleeping nw and dont wanna disturb him and he seems very tired.

please help!!!

If his behaviour has been out of the ordinary for 2 days (you say he has been sitting on the corner for 2 days when normally he is out with Thumper), you should take him to be seen by the vet. It is possible he has hurt himself in the fall.

Has he eaten since he had some hay after the fall? Has he been passing faeces?

ETA, sorry, I just re-read your post and think I may have misunderstood the timings. Can you clarify if it was today that the accident happened, or 2 days ago?

accidents do happen!
its not good bun has fallen, but it was unforseen, i had one of the litter we took on at 2 weeks old fall out of the hutch, same reasons darted at me when i opened the door.
with regards to peanuts, there was 2 in the litter we took on, 1 made it to day 2 and the other died on day 5 with intervention from us, at the time we didnt realise they were peanuts and did everything to help them, id be shocked if a peanut had survived for 3 weeks.

I would advise visit to vet.

(Is it just me, or is strange that this is tagged on to a thread which is 4 years old?)

Babsie said:

I would advise visit to vet.

(Is it just me, or is strange that this is tagged on to a thread which is 4 years old?)

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I assume that as the OP is a new member they will have searched for information regarding a rabbit falling from a height and came across this post.

following on from tag onto this old post............

johnnjohn2011 said:

im worried that he may be absolutely scared that he may get ill
or he may have broken bones( he ran about for a couple of minutes after the fall) no limping or anything. will rabbits limp with broken bones?

hes sleeping nw and dont wanna disturb him and he seems very tired.

please help!!!

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This is what I did when I first joined, i didnt look at the dates on posts! easy to do. I had problems with my rabbits wriggling, one in particular, when I first got them 2 years ago. I now know that rabbits will take any chance to wriggle free (unless they are 100% calm in your hands) and you have to hold them VERY firmly at all times to prevent this, they cannot percive the risk of their own potential injury in these situation.

I would get your rabbit to a bunny savvy vet asap. if you say what area you are someone on here will most likely recommend one in your area.

Rabbits are difficult to handle and it takes a lot of practice, I have handled mine alot over the last 2 years and still have a lot to learn. on a side note, i believe that my bunny developed a retrobulbar abscess because he wriggled out of my hands after I had had him only a week, the vet didnt think there was a link but I feel responsible. that was a long term problem that developed but the initial problem was a swollen mouth as he banged his chin, wasnt a head injury as i initially though but it was a hard lesson to learn about rabbit handling.

rabbits are prey animals and therefore WONT show they are in pain - best take him to the vets to make sure he hasnt damaged any muscles or bones xx

MoBo said:

rabbits are prey animals and therefore WONT show they are in pain - best take him to the vets to make sure he hasnt damaged any muscles or bones xx

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Ooo, that's interesting, I didn't know that :thumb:

If one of my rabbits would fall, I would rush it to the emergency vet! Your bunny might have some internal damage so it is best to take her to the vet!!
good luck!!!!

When my Jasper broke his leg he didn't limp and hopped as normal. When he sat still he was holding it slightly off the floor. His leg was a really really bad break and ultimately he ended up haviong his leg amputated. He is absolutely fine now and still zooms around and digs. However if he was taken to a vet sooner they would have been able to pin it in place and he probably wouldn't have lost it. Long story but I didn't actually own him when he broke it, so he was not taken straight to the vets, no matter what I said to the owners.