For Vets
Health
Good health care is essential for rabbit welfare, helping prevent illness, support wellbeing, and ensure a good quality of life.
Key points
Diseases
Find out how to protect your rabbits against potentially fatal diseases. Learn how to spot the warning signs so treatment can be given and further spread prevented.
Illnesses
Rabbits can suffer a number of painful and often deadly conditions that can easily be prevented with the right diet and environment. Find out how, and what to do when your rabbits are unwell.
Medical Treatment
How to make sure your rabbits have the medical care they need when they need it. Discover how to keep them healthy and help them recover after treatment.
Articles
Rabbit Nails
Part of a rabbit’s toolbox Rabbits have five toes on their front feet and four on their back feet. Their...
Megacolon Syndrome
Megacolon syndrome is a relatively common condition of rabbits. Clinically affected rabbits present with frequent bouts of gut stasis, increased...
Vaccines
It’s key for owners to vaccinate pet rabbits It’s important your bunnies live a happy, healthy life. So vaccinate them...
Brachycephaly
What is brachycephaly? This condition affects short-nosed animals, particularly their breathing, tooth growth, and tear ducts. You can read our policy...
Understanding Zinc Poisoning, Wire Types, and Fox‑Proofing
Why We Recommend 16g 13mm x 13mm Wire as the Only Fox‑Proof Option Foxes are incredibly strong, determined predators. No...
Rabbits and Guinea Pigs – Bordatella
We are often asked about keeping rabbits and guinea pigs together. This is not advisable for the following reasons: Bordetella...
Are Christmas Trees Safe for Rabbits?
While chewing on the bark won’t necessarily do rabbits any harm (unless it has been treated with fire retardants, etc),...
Farm parks, mobile zoos and animal encounters
Rabbits have the misfortune of being found in various locations, such as farm parks, mobile petting zoos, and animal encounters....
Body Condition Score
Why do I need to body condition score my rabbit? Body condition scoring is a technique used in many animals...
Permethrin
Regarding the inadvertent presence of permethrin in a brand of cat flea control products, it’s worth reviewing the situation for...
ACV in water
Apple Cider vinegar is a vinegar made from fermented apple juice. Bacteria and yeasts in the apples produce alcohol from...
Neutering – Castration and Spaying
Neutering – it’s not just about babies… it’s vital for a long and healthy life. It’s important to your rabbits’...
Pain Management for Rabbits
The signs Rabbits in the wild are at the bottom of the food chain. It’s hard-wired into them not to...
Recognising Emergencies
Rabbits do find vet trips stressful but seeing a rabbit-savvy vet is vital for their long-term good health. As prey...
Syringe Feeding Guide
It is vital that rabbits keep eating steady amounts throughout the day and night; however, sick rabbits or those that...
Sore Hocks
Hocks are the joints facing backwards in a rabbit’s hind legs, the equivalent of a heel on humans. They are...
Abscesses – Further Reading
What is an abscess? An abscess is a walled-off pocket of infection, which contains infective bacteria, in order to stop...
Body Condition Score
Why do I need to body condition score my rabbit? Body condition scoring is a technique used in many animals...
Urolithiasis (Urinary Sludge and Stones)
By Claire Speight, Veterinary Nurse, C&G certificate in nursing exotic species, MBVNA Urolithiasis (stones or sludge) within the urinary tract...
Nebulising Rabbits
Registered veterinary nurse, Rachel Sibbald, explains how to nebulise your rabbits. First published in Rabbiting On Summer 2019 A nebuliser...
Drug Focus: Meloxicam
By Richard Saunders, RWAF Veterinary Adviser (This article was first published in Rabbiting On, Autumn, 2014) Generic Drug Name: Meloxicam...
Bathing Rabbits
In normal situations, rabbits generally tend to shy away from getting themselves wet. As a prey species, rabbits do not...
Gut Slowdown
Digestive Problems If the appetite goes or the poos stop then see a vet now, this is an emergency Your...
Flystrike in Rabbits
What is “Flystrike”? Flystrike is also called ‘myiasis’. It happens when flies lay their eggs on your rabbit, and those...
