Hi everyone, as a few of you know already my boy Toste struggle with ear problems.
In my country they recently did a study on rabbits. They had 100 rabbits (50 lops & 50 upright eared). The 100 bunnies where bunnies who visited a specific clinic who specialize on rabbits. They either went to the vet to get vaccination and spay & neuter etc. None went in to check the ears or control the ears.
From this study 64% of the lops had an ear problem of any kind while only 5,9% of the upright had it.
What they wanted to carry highlight from the study where the importance of health check up and that you as a lop owner should be aware of the risk of ear problems. They often don’t show any signs because rabbit hide really well their problems.
The study but it’s written in swedish except the abstract. You can find similar studies about lops by doing a search on research engines like PubMed. There are articles who will explain the difference on the ears and why lop ear have a higher risk. Where they will show pictures and different treatments that currently exist to treat lop eared rabbits.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DY_ItJB1vzm816S7YSvO1Yokrd4_qPGR/view?usp=sharing
How many of you that have owned a lop ear rabbit and had to handle ear problems?
In my country they recently did a study on rabbits. They had 100 rabbits (50 lops & 50 upright eared). The 100 bunnies where bunnies who visited a specific clinic who specialize on rabbits. They either went to the vet to get vaccination and spay & neuter etc. None went in to check the ears or control the ears.
From this study 64% of the lops had an ear problem of any kind while only 5,9% of the upright had it.
What they wanted to carry highlight from the study where the importance of health check up and that you as a lop owner should be aware of the risk of ear problems. They often don’t show any signs because rabbit hide really well their problems.
The study but it’s written in swedish except the abstract. You can find similar studies about lops by doing a search on research engines like PubMed. There are articles who will explain the difference on the ears and why lop ear have a higher risk. Where they will show pictures and different treatments that currently exist to treat lop eared rabbits.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DY_ItJB1vzm816S7YSvO1Yokrd4_qPGR/view?usp=sharing
How many of you that have owned a lop ear rabbit and had to handle ear problems?
