BarneysMum
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A few weeks ago i put a post on here about my female rabbit Misty and the fact that she had a really big chin!! I'd learnt that it was actually called a dewlap and there was nothing to worry about!! Well............
Yesterday i went into the shed that she shares with her male buddy Barney and saw that there was white creamy thick stuff everywhere!!! It looked like yoghurt and at first i thought one of them had been sick. :?: Then i saw that Misty's chin was a heck of a lot smaller than usual and when we eventually picked her up (which she usually hates!!!) we saw that her "dewlap" had a hole in it the size of a fifty pence piece!!! :x
Being out of hours we had to use the emergency vet number and got her looked at as soon as we could. The vet said that it was actually a massive abscess which had finally popped!! The vet pulled loads more of the yucky stuff out of poor Misty who was the best behaved that we have ever seen her. She's now on antibiotics and we have to swab out the empty hole twice a day. She is so much calmer now and lets you actually pick her up. All along i thought that she was just a moody bunny but the poor thing must have just been so fed up with her growing chin!!
I did feel really guilty for not noticing sooner but when she had her injections a while ago even the vet didnt notice so it was just one of those things!! Fingers crossed that it heals well!!! :|
Yesterday i went into the shed that she shares with her male buddy Barney and saw that there was white creamy thick stuff everywhere!!! It looked like yoghurt and at first i thought one of them had been sick. :?: Then i saw that Misty's chin was a heck of a lot smaller than usual and when we eventually picked her up (which she usually hates!!!) we saw that her "dewlap" had a hole in it the size of a fifty pence piece!!! :x
Being out of hours we had to use the emergency vet number and got her looked at as soon as we could. The vet said that it was actually a massive abscess which had finally popped!! The vet pulled loads more of the yucky stuff out of poor Misty who was the best behaved that we have ever seen her. She's now on antibiotics and we have to swab out the empty hole twice a day. She is so much calmer now and lets you actually pick her up. All along i thought that she was just a moody bunny but the poor thing must have just been so fed up with her growing chin!!
I did feel really guilty for not noticing sooner but when she had her injections a while ago even the vet didnt notice so it was just one of those things!! Fingers crossed that it heals well!!! :|