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Nail curved over top of foot

JackieS

JackieS

Warren Scout
This might sound abit random so sorry!

Rose is one of my mini lops, and we trim her nails ourselves (indoor bunny on carpet, lives with her brother Axl) Whilst trimming them today we noticed that the inner most nail on her left paw had grown and was curved funny (I suspect I may have missed it accidentally when last trimming them as it was longer than all the others). Rather than curving back upon itself so it was on the underneath of her foot it was actually curved over the top of her foot so it rested on the top (does that make sense). I trimmed as much as I could and now it's shorter but what is left appears to be still curving inwards rather than under, so it more towards lying flat on the underside of her foot

None of her other nails do this - so I wondered if it might be due to an altered position of her toe making it grow this way.....any thoughts? She's not been in any pain, binkying and eating with no problem. If we had tried to trim them today we wouldn't have noticed that there was any problem.

Is it worth taking her to the vet to check it's not because of something wrong with her toe?
 
JackieS said:
This might sound abit random so sorry!

Rose is one of my mini lops, and we trim her nails ourselves (indoor bunny on carpet, lives with her brother Axl) Whilst trimming them today we noticed that the inner most nail on her left paw had grown and was curved funny (I suspect I may have missed it accidentally when last trimming them as it was longer than all the others). Rather than curving back upon itself so it was on the underneath of her foot it was actually curved over the top of her foot so it rested on the top (does that make sense). I trimmed as much as I could and now it's shorter but what is left appears to be still curving inwards rather than under, so it more towards lying flat on the underside of her foot

None of her other nails do this - so I wondered if it might be due to an altered position of her toe making it grow this way.....any thoughts? She's not been in any pain, binkying and eating with no problem. If we had tried to trim them today we wouldn't have noticed that there was any problem.

Is it worth taking her to the vet to check it's not because of something wrong with her toe?
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Nail growth can become distorted when the nail is very overgrown. It can also occur after an injury to the toe. So I would get the Vet to take a look, at the least he/she will probably be able to trim the nail down a bit more and hopefully the regrowth will be self correcting.
 
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