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Hey everyone,
Sorry to bother you all, just wondering if anyone has any advice? I've just come back from the vet with Mishka as she's been holding her paw up today. I thought it was broken but the vet doesn't think it is. He's felt the whole leg and paw quite thoroughly. There doesn't seem to be any swelling but when she was at home before she wasn't holding it right. Of course in the vets she looked normal and was walking around on it like there was nothing wrong :roll: She's always had something about her front paws, she never likes you touching them - not just in a normal 'don't you touch my paws' way that rabbits have anyway, she seems especially bothered by it. When she had her myxi/rhd vacc a couple of months back she seemed to be bothered by it then (I was clipping her nails before she went in and she wouldn't let me clip the nails on her front paws) but I got it checked then and again the vet didn't find anything wrong (that time it was my normal vet, today was a different one).
Now today it didn't look right to me visually and she definitely prefered not to use it, though a few times she has put weight on it and has used it twice to clean her face. So I'm a bit confused.
The vet said maybe it could be a soft tissue injury but doesn't seem to be too worried about it. He seems quite sure it's not broken and as I say he checked it thoroughly. He's given her a metacam injection and she's going back in 24hrs to see how she's been but I can't put my finger on what it is. Maybe he's right and it is a soft tissue injury but I'm sure it's not normal for her to be as bothered about her front paws as she is. Although she is a 'diva bunny' as my vet calls her :roll:
My instinct says there's something not right about it but it doesn't seem to be broken or swollen so I don't know what else it could be? She's only two so I really doubt it's arthritis. What else could it be in a front paw if it's not a break?
Sorry to bother you all, just wondering if anyone has any advice? I've just come back from the vet with Mishka as she's been holding her paw up today. I thought it was broken but the vet doesn't think it is. He's felt the whole leg and paw quite thoroughly. There doesn't seem to be any swelling but when she was at home before she wasn't holding it right. Of course in the vets she looked normal and was walking around on it like there was nothing wrong :roll: She's always had something about her front paws, she never likes you touching them - not just in a normal 'don't you touch my paws' way that rabbits have anyway, she seems especially bothered by it. When she had her myxi/rhd vacc a couple of months back she seemed to be bothered by it then (I was clipping her nails before she went in and she wouldn't let me clip the nails on her front paws) but I got it checked then and again the vet didn't find anything wrong (that time it was my normal vet, today was a different one).
Now today it didn't look right to me visually and she definitely prefered not to use it, though a few times she has put weight on it and has used it twice to clean her face. So I'm a bit confused.
The vet said maybe it could be a soft tissue injury but doesn't seem to be too worried about it. He seems quite sure it's not broken and as I say he checked it thoroughly. He's given her a metacam injection and she's going back in 24hrs to see how she's been but I can't put my finger on what it is. Maybe he's right and it is a soft tissue injury but I'm sure it's not normal for her to be as bothered about her front paws as she is. Although she is a 'diva bunny' as my vet calls her :roll:
My instinct says there's something not right about it but it doesn't seem to be broken or swollen so I don't know what else it could be? She's only two so I really doubt it's arthritis. What else could it be in a front paw if it's not a break?
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