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Forum DIET & CARE Clipping nails on frightful bunny

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    • NewBunnyOwner123
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        I have no idea how I’m suppose to clip Sally’s nails. She refuses to be picked up. I tried wrapping a towel around her and she fights the entire time and I feel like I’m stressing her out too much  I don’t know what to do! And don’t say to put her on her back… I’m just not comfortable doing that to her at all. Is there any natural way she can grind her own nails down? I hate seeing her so stress when she is picked up. 


      • DUSTBUNNY-CLYDE
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          can u maybe get a friend to help!! usually if there’s someone to hold her and someone to clip, it might be easier!! if not maybe take her to the pet store or vet. usually it’s only $10. good luck!! I know it can be a struggle!!


        • NewBunnyOwner123
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            Yeah I was trying to hold her against my chest while my husband clips the nails but as soon as you even touch her feet she goes crazy! Question about the vet though, how is that any less stressful? How do they clip the rabbits nails? I feel like it would just be even MORE scary for her to go the vet to do it. She’d still put up a fight either way.


          • DUSTBUNNY-CLYDE
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              Maybe she’ll behave better for someone else doing it??? my dog behaves better if someone she doesn’t know clips her nails!!  I don’t like to stress any of animals out either!! it does break your heart !!!  good luck!!


            • NewBunnyOwner123
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                Can’t really compare a dog to a bunny when it comes to behavior but thank you we are going to wait mid day when she is done with her morning run. She is more active in the mornings and evening so maybe if she’s puttered out she won’t give us such a fight lol


              • NewBunnyOwner123
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                  Can’t really compare a dog to a bunny when it comes to behavior but thank you we are going to wait mid day when she is done with her morning run. She is more active in the mornings and evening so maybe if she’s puttered out she won’t give us such a fight lol


                • LBJ10
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                    My buns turn into absolute angels when they go to the vet. So much so that the vet thinks I’m insane when I say they won’t hold still for something. I have had the vet clip their nails before. It takes them like 2 seconds because they hold so still for them.

                    At home, I am able to clip Wooly’s nails without flipping him over. All I have to do is set him on an unfamiliar surface like a counter or table. He looks around all bewildered and I just sneak the little clippers (the scissor style) onto his nails one at a time.


                  • mia
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                      Alternative to one person holding and another clipping, is that one person both clips and holds while the second provides distractions such as nose rubs, body rubs, treats, etc.


                    • NewBunnyOwner123
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                        Thanks! I’ll give it a try! I know she won’t behave for the vet because at our check up she was an absolute terror to look over. I could see the frustration of the vet lol I’ll def try out those ideas when my husband gets home!


                      • Elrohwen
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                          Mine are also fantastic at the vet. I absolutely 100% cannot pick up Hannah at home – she’s good if we let her sit on the counter and clip her nails, but try to pick her up and she’s crazy. At the vet they have no issues. Otto isn’t nearly as hard, but not super easy, and at the vet they were carrying him around like a baby and cooing over him. lol

                          I think going to the vet is stressful, but because they’re more subdued and the vet techs are very efficient at it, the whole thing can end up less stressful than doing it yourself. I took mine to the vet for years before I was comfortable doing it myself.

                          If you really want to do it yourself, have you tried it without holding him? Since Hannah hates being picked up so much, we let her come out of her carrier onto the counter, then one person gently holds her down (with a towel over her) and the other pulls her feet out one by one and clips them. She’s sooo much easier this way.


                        • NewBunnyOwner123
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                            I’ve already seen her behavior at the vet and she was worse than at home lol I think that’s partly why they just shrugged me off and gave them a clean bill of health even though her brother died a week later. That’s how bad they both were lol Maybe a better vet will do they didn’t seem all that confident handling the buns in the first place :/


                          • Michele823
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                              Wow I would find a new Vet right away, My vet spent an hour with me and my 2 buns. She answered all my questions checked them out; their ears, teeth, eyes, gave them a little bunny massage to make sure everything felt right and there were no lumps or anything. She asked me questions like what they were eating, how much, and gave me tips on what I should change. Asked me about some of their behaviors and what kind of cage I had for them. And answered all my questions. She also told me if I had anymore questions to call them whenever. I really liked the fact that she asked me questions and didn’t just answer the ones I had, it showed that she really cared about them and wanted to make sure as a new owner that I knew what I was doing and didn’t just assume that since they were in good health that I was doing all the right things.


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                                I would find a new bunny vet NewBunnyOwner. Don’t feel bad if it takes you going to visit/talking to several vets before you find the right one. (I visited different three vets before settling on the one I have now.) All that matters is that you have a vet that you can trust.


                              • NewBunnyOwner123
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                                  Oh I found me a new vet after that! Not locally yet but I at least found one 90 minutes away to do her spay in a few weeks! It’s frustrating when they claim they do rabbits and then perform the way they did at a basic checkup wasting my time and money and their time. It’s like how am I suppose to believe another vet! But I’m confident the vet that’s doing her spay knows what he is doing. He does the rabbits at the shelters so I know he has plenty of experience


                                • DUSTBUNNY-CLYDE
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                                    that’s great!! good luck!!!!

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