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Wise Old Thumper
Wednesday night, there's a couple of matty clumps of black fur on the windowsill. I note them, give Barrie a quick bum check (just with my hand) but he's dry and clean, a little matty around the middle bits of his legs (ankle-knee) but nothing I'm concerned about, a one off wee incident isn't to worry about, or he could be 'wet' from the rain because Aboleth had that. Thursday evening, a couple more, his legs are definitely still matty and arguably worse, still dry, but like he's had wet on him all night, but under him he's not matty. This morning, more smaller fur pulls and he looks more uncomfortable. No worse than yesterday, but *he's* changed. Still eating fine, body condition fine, but fur on his back feels less good, a teeny tiny bit rougher. Still glossy as heck. Booked in for the vet tomorrow morning as vet said if he was eating etc. not worth squeezing him in today (they're rammed), but to call back if there's any worsening obviously. He grunted at me when I tried to have a look so I've left him to it as I don't want to stress him out, he finds me stressful enough as it is (he still runs away from me when i go in their house).
He doesn't smell of wee, or smell of anything except normal rabbitiness. It's almost like it's not wee but I can't think what it might be otherwise. He's pooing fine, eating fine, but fussing when resting now: pulling hay across litter trays, digging in them to get comfy, he even had his head on the back of Chibbs' neck this morning, cute but unusual. There's the usual amount of wee everywhere but I can't get him to wee for me on command :lol: I assume he's drinking because he still feels normal and the normal amount of water has gone down. He has no poo stuck to him, no excess caecos, nothing like that. He is moulting, this is adding to the mattiness, and I wonder if it's like Aboleth's matty bum skirt issue but further under? From what I can see of his skin it's OK, the wet hasn't soaked down that far yet if that makes sense? I'm just at a loss to explain it, and I'd rather someone with more confidence and expertise took a look, because he's 2.8kg of wriggly muscle (could be worse, could be Lopsy's superpowered back feet :roll
and the OH is RUBBISH at restraining and my hands aren't big enough
We don't know how old he is: he's a car park stray We can say for certainty 'relatively old' because he sleeps SO MUCH :lol: I've put him at 7 or 8. IIRC he was neutered when he was picked up by the rescue, but he's definitely been neutered well over a year either way. His legs seem too short for his body and he's never been able to run 'properly', like baby rabbits' legs are too short for their bodies rather than any serious issue. He does run at a decent speed now though, when we first let them out on the lawn he was running slower than ill old man Lopsy :lol: He stretches fine, he's so long he can reach half his face through the top of the shorter run we have so getting food off the top is easier for him His last vaccs were, uhm, October I think? Before we got him anyway
Should I take a clump of pulled-out fur with me? Poos (although they're normal for him)? Anything else you can think I might want to try and check etc.?
He doesn't smell of wee, or smell of anything except normal rabbitiness. It's almost like it's not wee but I can't think what it might be otherwise. He's pooing fine, eating fine, but fussing when resting now: pulling hay across litter trays, digging in them to get comfy, he even had his head on the back of Chibbs' neck this morning, cute but unusual. There's the usual amount of wee everywhere but I can't get him to wee for me on command :lol: I assume he's drinking because he still feels normal and the normal amount of water has gone down. He has no poo stuck to him, no excess caecos, nothing like that. He is moulting, this is adding to the mattiness, and I wonder if it's like Aboleth's matty bum skirt issue but further under? From what I can see of his skin it's OK, the wet hasn't soaked down that far yet if that makes sense? I'm just at a loss to explain it, and I'd rather someone with more confidence and expertise took a look, because he's 2.8kg of wriggly muscle (could be worse, could be Lopsy's superpowered back feet :roll
and the OH is RUBBISH at restraining and my hands aren't big enough We don't know how old he is: he's a car park stray
We can say for certainty 'relatively old' because he sleeps SO MUCH :lol: I've put him at 7 or 8. IIRC he was neutered when he was picked up by the rescue, but he's definitely been neutered well over a year either way. His legs seem too short for his body and he's never been able to run 'properly', like baby rabbits' legs are too short for their bodies rather than any serious issue. He does run at a decent speed now though, when we first let them out on the lawn he was running slower than ill old man Lopsy :lol: He stretches fine, he's so long he can reach half his face through the top of the shorter run we have so getting food off the top is easier for him His last vaccs were, uhm, October I think? Before we got him anyway Should I take a clump of pulled-out fur with me? Poos (although they're normal for him)? Anything else you can think I might want to try and check etc.?
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