Hi

I'm so sorry That Bailey is head bobbing.
I agree fully with MM that we must be 101% sure that there is no type of infection going on here. I also completely trust her experience to comment on your video.
I just want to add that head bobbing isn't always caused by various infections or poor eyesight. (REW rabbits are classic)
My very nervous snuffles rabbit, Benjie, used to head bob to something new, or even a shadow when his snuffles flared up - lost his sense of smell (Smell is the major way they recognise things - predators & indeed us as individuals)
There was nothing wrong with his eyesight. He was trying to get more binocular vision than is the norm for rabbits to compensate for his loss of smell.
At the bottom of the list your rabbit [B]might[B] be doing head bobbing to compensate for some loss of hearing after the middle ear infection.
I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to be sure that there isn't a recurrence of the original infections.
If transporting him is a big stress out - some people use lavender to calm rabbits down during transport.
EC was taken so seriously that when 1 ear grew minimally larger than the other & lopped he had a course of panacure in case it was the early sign of EC
He also had the full range of tests for middle ear infection (recognised complication of snuffles) etc when he started head bobbing.
We only concluded the cause of his head bobbing after all Ix were negative - still watched very closely, but there was no further deterioration.
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