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Mischa getting bald spot!

gil

Mama Doe
Hi all
more advice needed for Mischa and Lola. Mischa now has a bald spot on top of her head where Lola has pulled her fur out! it doesn't happen when i'm about think it must be happening when i'm at work. otherwise they seem quite happy together so wouldn't want to separate them.
any advice would be welcome as wouldn't want Mischa to loose any more fur!
 
Sounds like to much licking :lol: , check theres no dandruff if there was it could be mites.Some rabbits can over groom there partners. If it gets worse then you may have to try and think of something to put on hte head that dosent taste very nice :lol: . val
 
This happened to two of my former rabbits once, one of them over groomed the other one in the same spot and it went totally bald. The first vet I saw was a locum and he said "there's nothing for it, you'll have to separate them" (advice which I thought was wrong so I ignored it) and went back to see my usual vet.

She said that often there can be a reason why the other one is attracted to an area to overgroom, like a fungal infection for example, so gave me some cream to put on it which conveniently also didn't taste nice so the other one stopped fairly soon and the fur all grew back eventually.
 
Does it look like this? See the patch on his ear? That was from over grooming .. its all grown back now though :wink:

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thanks for the tips! Mischa looks very similar to your rabbit! but not the bald patch! actually with Mischa it looks more like she's had a bad haircut as it's all uneven with this wee bald patch in the middle - i can see her skin!
i have seen Lola try to groom her but it's more like pulling at Mischa's fur but that's been on her body not her head! if i see it getting worse i will take her to the vet. they are both still young so perhaps they are still trying to sort out who's boss? Lola from the early stages looks as if she is going to be the dominant bun, yet she is a couple of weeks younger than Mischa!
 
Sounds like the other rabbit is biting the hair :roll: , rabbits do do that to themselves sometimes and its associated with bordom,but thats not likly to be the case here. val
 
Hi Val, no definitely not boredom, Lola seems to start out by licking Mischa but then goes on to pulling at her fur. aslo if Mischa is lying relaxing Lola seems to to annoy her by doing this too and i'm not sure why? lola also does the same with me in that she licks my hands for ages then she will start pulling at my clothes, particularly my fleece tops! this morning she peed on my top that i'd left lying on the sofa!
 
I am fostering two French Lop sisters and when I collected them in September, one had a bald spot with cuts throughout it. It was a dominance thing with these two and Daisy would pull the fur out (wasn't grooming). She would chase Maisie around and it looked so sore. We brought forward the spaying and they are fine now. The fur grew back. They are so happy together and love each other, I am glad we didn't split up.
 
thanks, yes i think it's a dominance thing too! Lola is definitely the boss betwen the two but as they are only 12-14 weeks old they won't be getting spayed for a while yet! lola is an english lop and i think Mischa is a french lop!
 
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