Desperate for help with bleeding claw!

My male unneutered dwarf lop named Barnaby has bitten one of his back claws off following a rather nasty infection which caused the skin round it to swell. The infection seemed to go away after medication with Baytril, and this last month he seemed perfectly fine once more. Though the nail was mishapred slightly due to the complications of the infection.


However, this morning I found blood on the floor and immediately looked at his back foot. He had chewed the nail off leaving a bloody stump of nail. The skin around seems to have become inflamed again. Upon emergancy visitation to a vet I would not go normally, and told her about the previous problems. Her words greatly concerned me when she said "This is fine. Rabbits can do this occasionally."

(Forgive me for the poor quality of the image, I only have one pair of hands.)



No, no they do not.

She then said that I should just monitor it and bathe his foot occasionally with salt water and perscribed Septrine at a 0.8 mil dosage.

I'm grossly unhappy, upon washing his foot it has started bleeding badly again. Barnaby himself seems to be taking it in stride but I am angry at how I was treated and now have no clue if I should give him this medicine offered to me or just try and get him to his usual vet who lives 2 hours away.

Please, help!

Hello, my bunny used to have similar problems with 1 particular claw which kept breaking off and bleeding (leaving just the stump), maybe once a month or so, it never looked as bad as it does in that photo though and never became infected. I was also told the same, however, they had this black stuff which they put on the wound to stop it from bleeding. Its the same black stuff the nurses use if they cut animals claws too close to the blood vessel as it stops the bleeding. They would also prescribe oral pain killer (sorry not good memory right now).

I am no expert hopefully someone with more knowledge will come along with advise, and I hope your bunny makes a speedy recovery xxx

I wonder why they prescribed septrin rather than baytril? It's a different antibiotic but baytril is the usual first choice, maybe as baytril was used last time she has decided to try septrin. Does he seem ok in himself and is the wound ok as in not smelly or having any puss oozing or anything? I would probably have expected a couple of days pain relief as he must have chewed the nail for a reason so it must have been annoying him. I agree with bathing with a mild warm salt water (use cooled water out the kettle) and keeping it clean. Maybe just use newspaper and hay, avoid anything like shavings that may stick to the wound.

I swear by wound powder for things like this (obviously would not advise for a big wound). It helps clog up the wound and it has anti-biotic properties. Just type in 'veterinary wound powder' into Google and loads come up. I use vetzyme stuff but I'm sure other brands are fine x