Know Some of Rabbit Diseases

When we care a rabbit to be our pet at home, we should be an affective care person because rabbits are also living beings and entitle to love and care. To be an effective pet owner, you should be familiar of some diseases and illness of pet rabbits so that you can provide them an immediate care the time their health is being threatened with the disease. The identified rabbit diseases are coccidiosis, fur-mites and ear mites. Let us tackle these disease and some way to prevent your pet rabbits from acquiring these kind of infection so that their can live healthy and grow with ease.

Coccidiosis – it is either intestinal or live form infection caused by protozoan microorganisms which cause an extreme damage of your pet rabbit’s intestines and common bile duct. This can be considered less threatening but considering that the damage occurs internally, this can prompt that you can detect it late since you will just discover this the time when you rabbit is extremely weak or overly dehydrated because he or she can no longer eat or drink comfortable. The severe form of the disease could possibly lead to your pet rabbit’s life threat since it can cause mucoid enteropathy or the severe case called enteroxemia can protozoans can infect the circulation of your pet’s system. The cure for this infestation is very simple. A prescribed medication coming from a veterinarian called sulfaquinoxyline that will be incorporated in your pet’s water in a span of days or as prescribed.

Ear-mites – is also a parasitic infection characterized by invasion of parasitic organisms in your pet rabbit’s ears? The opportunistic parasite is called Psoreptes Cuniculi which stays in the ear canal of your pet rabbit. This invasion cannot cause a severe damage but it can cause irritation of your pet rabbit’s ears and can trigger them to scratch their ears because of itchiness. Once you see your pet rabbit scratching his head near the ear portion, it will prompt you that there is an itchiness going on and this is possibly due to ear infection like ear-mites. Better bring your pet rabbit to his veterinarian so that he will be treated accordingly.

Fur-mites – although this is very common in almost all animals, it is still important to tackle this one. The opportunistic microorganism will invade the fur of your pet rabbit. The causative agent is the bacteria called Gibbus and Parasitivorax and once infected, they are dominantly viewable in the back of the neck of your pet rabbit. The worst case if untreated can cause dermatitis of your pet’s skin that might lead to another type if infection which is no longer easily treatable. The medication of choice is depending on the type of bacterial medication wherein your pet rabbit doesn’t have any allergy but in some cases, pet groomers recommend the use of a cat flea mite powder being mixed with a concentrated Listerine mouthwash being applied over the areas of your per rabbit’s fur. This is a proven effective homecare remedy for fur mites in rabbits.