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Blue eyed white lop girl.....deaf? Any particular BEW health issues?

treacletrim

treacletrim

Young Bun
Hi all,

Just a question out of curiosity really! I know REW bunnies are prone to poor vision/scanning, but are blue eyed white buns prone to anything in particular? It wouldn't surprise me if my BEW lop girl was deaf. It's more apparent after she lost her husbun a few months ago (new boy arriving next week hopefully!), you can be stood behind her shouting and she doesn't react, but panics when she eventually sees you. I remember reading that white dogs are prone to deafness, and wondered if BEWS were prone to anything?

Thanks!
 
My Daughter has a blue eyed white cat who is totally deaf, not sure if the same is true with rabbits?
 
Possibly epilepsy.
Frances Harcourt Brown said heard another vet say that at an event in the last few years and when she asked where they'd read that, they said in the Textbook of Rabbit Medicine that FHB wrote - but FHB can't remember where she got it from originally. I'm sure she wouldn't have included it without justification though
 
Blue eyed white Lion Heads may be prone to idiopathic epilepsy. It is rare though.

Is your BEW a Lop ? If so I would think being a Lop is more likely to cause hearing problems than the colour of the eyes x
 
dumblepaws said:
Possibly epilepsy.
Frances Harcourt Brown said heard another vet say that at an event in the last few years and when she asked where they'd read that, they said in the Textbook of Rabbit Medicine that FHB wrote - but FHB can't remember where she got it from originally. I'm sure she wouldn't have included it without justification though
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Indeed - agree with dumblepaws :D
 
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