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Young Bun
My rabbit - Cody - is having terrible trouble with all of his front teeth following an accident.
(Short version: when I was in hospital my housemate who was supposed to be looking after both rabbits, dropped cody, on his head breaking all front teeth and a few back ones.&no, he hasn't been near the rabbits since.)
The vet says that the back teeth are now all right; but Cody's front teeth are absolutely hideous. He's having to have them burred every three weeks, and recently every two weeks. He last had his teeth burred two and a half weeks ago, today they are so long it looks like a really bad case of rabbit neglect. If you saw the photographs you'd think he hadn't been fed/let out/cared for in months.
He's eating some, but not much. He doesn't use his front teeth at all,crunches the pellets with the back teeth; he can't eat any treats even bread is difficult, and his teeth are starting to give him sores from being too long. All four of his front teeth are affected.
I'm obviously going to book him into the vets tomorrow to have the teeth burred, but it seems like time to consider whether I keep having his teeth burred, or risk having them taken out completely.
It seems mean to keep having his teeth burred every two weeks, and they obvously cause him pain: and it does seem that the growth is actually accelerating. He's been this way since last may (at first he needed teeth done every five or so weeks, the vet said wait and see if it settled down. )
The vet has suggested taking all four front teeth out. Which seemed like a viable option, until another vet told me that damaged teeth CAN actually grow back, in some cases, and that they can't give me a guarantee that cody's back teeth are actually okay enough for him to eat without his front teeth.
((but he can't possibly be using his front teeth the state they're in.))
He is very,very thin though. But it seems when his front teeth are burred right down, he eats normally - so he might well be okay with all four front teeth removed.
I just don't really know what to do: I would hate to take his front teeth out and put him in a worse position or unable to eat at all. But they cause him a lot of pain; and he is so thin it frightens me.
Has anyone else had a bunny with all front teeth missing/taken out?
Cody's back teeth seem allright, and he eats a diet of mostly hay, some herbs and suparabbit pellets. I just don't want to a)put him through pointless treatment or b) make this worse.
Also at the moment, he is hardly eating,and I wondered if anyone had advice on what I can feed him that's nutritous and will help with his weight but that he can eat with either long teeth or his teeth burred right back?
(Short version: when I was in hospital my housemate who was supposed to be looking after both rabbits, dropped cody, on his head breaking all front teeth and a few back ones.&no, he hasn't been near the rabbits since.)
The vet says that the back teeth are now all right; but Cody's front teeth are absolutely hideous. He's having to have them burred every three weeks, and recently every two weeks. He last had his teeth burred two and a half weeks ago, today they are so long it looks like a really bad case of rabbit neglect. If you saw the photographs you'd think he hadn't been fed/let out/cared for in months.
He's eating some, but not much. He doesn't use his front teeth at all,crunches the pellets with the back teeth; he can't eat any treats even bread is difficult, and his teeth are starting to give him sores from being too long. All four of his front teeth are affected.
I'm obviously going to book him into the vets tomorrow to have the teeth burred, but it seems like time to consider whether I keep having his teeth burred, or risk having them taken out completely.
It seems mean to keep having his teeth burred every two weeks, and they obvously cause him pain: and it does seem that the growth is actually accelerating. He's been this way since last may (at first he needed teeth done every five or so weeks, the vet said wait and see if it settled down. )
The vet has suggested taking all four front teeth out. Which seemed like a viable option, until another vet told me that damaged teeth CAN actually grow back, in some cases, and that they can't give me a guarantee that cody's back teeth are actually okay enough for him to eat without his front teeth.
((but he can't possibly be using his front teeth the state they're in.))
He is very,very thin though. But it seems when his front teeth are burred right down, he eats normally - so he might well be okay with all four front teeth removed.
I just don't really know what to do: I would hate to take his front teeth out and put him in a worse position or unable to eat at all. But they cause him a lot of pain; and he is so thin it frightens me.
Has anyone else had a bunny with all front teeth missing/taken out?
Cody's back teeth seem allright, and he eats a diet of mostly hay, some herbs and suparabbit pellets. I just don't want to a)put him through pointless treatment or b) make this worse.
Also at the moment, he is hardly eating,and I wondered if anyone had advice on what I can feed him that's nutritous and will help with his weight but that he can eat with either long teeth or his teeth burred right back?