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Cataracts

rachylou

rachylou

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Is there anything that can be done?
Jimby and Cookie went to the vets for their combi vaccine on Friday and the vet said they both have the beginnings of cataracts :(
 
One of our buns had surgery to remove cataracts in both eyes last year, most rabbits it seems adapt well to cataracts however the situation with my boy was less common in that he lost his eyesight in a matter of days and did not have a chance to adapt. Our girlie bun was found to have the beginnings of cataracts a few months before she passed away and in that time it did not appear to progress.
 
iiisecondcreep said:
One of our buns had surgery to remove cataracts in both eyes last year, most rabbits it seems adapt well to cataracts however the situation with my boy was less common in that he lost his eyesight in a matter of days and did not have a chance to adapt. Our girlie bun was found to have the beginnings of cataracts a few months before she passed away and in that time it did not appear to progress.
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The cataracts wasn't connected to her death was it?!
 
Cataracts are often age-related. If your vet has only just seen it and they are minor, I would just monitor the situation. Maybe get them looked at in 6 months if you are worried. The rabbits will probably cope well with a small reduction in sight - it is not something that would really bother them at this stage. I would certainly not be looking at any radical treatment for early stage cataracts.
 
rachylou said:
Is there anything that can be done?
Jimby and Cookie went to the vets for their combi vaccine on Friday and the vet said they both have the beginnings of cataracts :(
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I have held back incipient cataracts by natural means for several years, but by conventional methods there is nothing you can do to slow their progress.

They may develop fast or slowly, it's impossible to tell.

Phacoclastic uveitis, which mimics cataracts, can be caused by E.C. and occurs in younger rabbits. There's no treatment for that either.

Rabbits manage very well without one of their senses though :D
 
My Eddie bunny had cataracts in old age. He lived for a good two years with them and died when he was about 11.

They came on slowly. The vet said he'd be fine living with them, and he was. We decided against putting him through unnecessary surgery as they're quite adaptable creatures.

He was an outdoors bunny and still enjoyed free-ranging and destroying the garden. :roll:

:wave:
 
my mowgli got them due to old age, they adapt pretty well he also had rosie to help him get about, we didn't do surgery as back then it wasn't common in rabbits only dogs, and we left him as he was getting on ok as he was
 
If its sudden onset they may not adapt well - if it comes on slowly they often do. We had Charlies removed and a new lens fitted last year - but only because it was sudden onset and had caused him to become very very timid and hardly move at all.
 
They both seem ok at the moment so I guess need to just keep an eye on them for now. My poor babies :(
 
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