So it started off as a normal morning. Hubby had already taken Amie to school, Mary was sat at the table eating her breakfast and watching Youtube Kids on her tablet. Lolly had had her breakfast and was enjoying her morning run around the living room. I'm backwards and forwards doing my early morning chores. I walk back into the living room and see a fair sized piece of rabbit fluff sitting in the middle of the floor. I pick it up and there seems to be something else on it, scab or skin like. Concerned I call over Lolly, who is just running about. I notice her tail seems shorter.
So I get a bunny biscuit and call her over so I can check further. When I look at her tail I nearly scream. It was half its usual size and there was a red, bloody stick like protrusion where her beautiful fluffy tail should be. I call the emergency vet. As its quite a distance away in rush hour traffic, they agree that I should wait the 15 mins for my local vets to open. Panicking I call hubby at work and put him on stand by. They manage to fit her in in 1/2hr time & hubby races home from work. I upset Mary by forcefully getting her dressed and off we all go to vets. Making sure I had plenty of treats for Lolly (and Mary, she's only 3 & I yanked her away from breakfast).
At the vets Both of my girls were absolute stars. Mary didn't create in the waiting room, even when I left her with hubby to take Lolly in to vets (She normally insists on following me everywhere). Lolly was great. With her teats she didn't bat an eye at the inspection, nor when they shaved her fur at the back. She sure did jump when they cleaned it up with iodine though. But again, for a rabbit whom I've had for less than 3 weeks, and I can't really pick up yet, she did amazing. She has been prescribed painkillers, antibiotic and I've been given some iodine to clean her stump with.
Giving her the medicine was really easy, she likes the painkiller and just licked it straight out of the syringe. Didn't like the antibiotic, but ate the little dandelion leaf parcel I put in.
I'd appreciate ANY advise on cleaning her tail with the iodine though. It was only yesterday that she actually jumped onto my lap and stayed there whilst I petted her. She's never done this before, and I'm worried that too much man handling during the 'friend making' stage will make her scared of me. Obviously its got to be done, but how to do it with the least stress for Lolly?
I am so upset looking at her stump . Thankfully she doesn't seem to even notice it and is her usual self. It bothers me even more not knowing how it happened.
Does anyone have any idea how she could have done it? I am absolutely puzzled. The wound seemed fresh but no-one was anywhere near her, and the fluff was in the middle of the floor.
So I get a bunny biscuit and call her over so I can check further. When I look at her tail I nearly scream. It was half its usual size and there was a red, bloody stick like protrusion where her beautiful fluffy tail should be. I call the emergency vet. As its quite a distance away in rush hour traffic, they agree that I should wait the 15 mins for my local vets to open. Panicking I call hubby at work and put him on stand by. They manage to fit her in in 1/2hr time & hubby races home from work. I upset Mary by forcefully getting her dressed and off we all go to vets. Making sure I had plenty of treats for Lolly (and Mary, she's only 3 & I yanked her away from breakfast).
At the vets Both of my girls were absolute stars. Mary didn't create in the waiting room, even when I left her with hubby to take Lolly in to vets (She normally insists on following me everywhere). Lolly was great. With her teats she didn't bat an eye at the inspection, nor when they shaved her fur at the back. She sure did jump when they cleaned it up with iodine though. But again, for a rabbit whom I've had for less than 3 weeks, and I can't really pick up yet, she did amazing. She has been prescribed painkillers, antibiotic and I've been given some iodine to clean her stump with.
Giving her the medicine was really easy, she likes the painkiller and just licked it straight out of the syringe. Didn't like the antibiotic, but ate the little dandelion leaf parcel I put in.
I'd appreciate ANY advise on cleaning her tail with the iodine though. It was only yesterday that she actually jumped onto my lap and stayed there whilst I petted her. She's never done this before, and I'm worried that too much man handling during the 'friend making' stage will make her scared of me. Obviously its got to be done, but how to do it with the least stress for Lolly?
I am so upset looking at her stump . Thankfully she doesn't seem to even notice it and is her usual self. It bothers me even more not knowing how it happened.
Does anyone have any idea how she could have done it? I am absolutely puzzled. The wound seemed fresh but no-one was anywhere near her, and the fluff was in the middle of the floor.