Wheezy burrito

[qtipthebun]

Tonight, I flipped and wrapped Q to cut her nails. She's always a really good bunny for that. Doesn't mind a bit.

However, about halfway through, she started wheezing a little.

I've posted before about her wheezing when being held on her back, but it hasn't happened in a while, and doesn't often happen when we're at the apartment (at the house, I attribute it to the fact that my partner smokes).

Do other bunnies wheeze a little? It wasn't bad, and I just rubbed her nose and finished clipping her nails, and she bounced off like normal.

Is this normal?

 

[saidinjester]

I don't have much bun experience, but S.D. Head never wheezed that I know of...

 

[LakeCondo]

I don't think I'd worry about it, but maybe you should just trim one paw a day & see if it still happens.

 

[I_heart_Fraggles]

Does she have a dewlap? Maybe its pressing into her windpipe when you hold her on her back. Just a theory.

 

[qtipthebun]

She has a little dewlap.
The problem is, she likes to be held that way...it's the only way she'll snuggle.

 

[I_heart_Fraggles]

Maybe the clippers make her nervous. My bunnies hate the clippers.

 

[qtipthebun]

But it's weird...I clip her nails all the time and this is the first wheeze.

She's wheezed when I've held her before, but not during clippings.

 

[Maureen Las]

qtipthebun wrote:

Tonight, I flipped and wrapped Q to cut her nails. She's always a really good bunny for that. Doesn't mind a bit.

However, about halfway through, she started wheezing a little.

I've posted before about her wheezing when being held on her back, but it hasn't happened in a while, and doesn't often happen when we're at the apartment (at the house, I attribute it to the fact that my partner smokes).

Do other bunnies wheeze a little? It wasn't bad, and I just rubbed her nose and finished clipping her nails, and she bounced off like normal.

Is this normal?

I am going to say this straight out. You are killing your rabbit by allowing someone to smoke in the house. Can't you get your partner to go outside. You have no idea how much damage that smoke can do to the fragile membranes of a rabbit's nasal passages, trachea etc.

The wheezing could be from the smoke inhalation.

 

[LakeCondo]

I had a friend who FINALLY quit smoking, but the interesting thing is that she hated the smell herself, so always did it outside or on the balcony.

 

[qtipthebun]

She doesn't smoke in the house. But because she's a smoker, the house always has a lingering smell. but we're at my apartment 8 months out of the year, and no one smokes here.

 

[Maureen Las]

qtipthebun wrote:

She doesn't smoke in the house. But because she's a smoker, the house always has a lingering smell. but we're at my apartment 8 months out of the year, and no one smokes here.

If she wheezes only when turned over then it may be nothing but a slight blocking of her trachea in that position but if she does it other times could be something more serious.