One ear up, one ear down

[Bam]

Yesterday Bam decided to move into the bedroom, so now Yohio gets his play-time in the living-room. Both yesterday and today he’s been exploring this new (to him) space meticulously. He’s not a lop, normally both his ears stand up, but both last night and now he moves about with his right ear down and left ear up.

Is this rabbit language for sth like caution? Or is he turning into a lop? I mean, if he is, he would’ve been a lop all the time only his ears hadn’t yet dropped. I don’t know his age. He weighed 1920 g (4.4 p) yesterday which is a gain of 170 g (0,6 p) since the day he was neutered (May 14). Maybe his ears are getting heavier too?

What else could it be? Injury?

[MoveDiagonally]

 Is it constantly down or just sometimes down? 

 

Penny is an up ear rabbit but once in a while she flops her ear sideways like this:

 

[Bam]

These last two days it seems to be constantly right ear up, left down. I now caught him and put him in the bathroom because I’m off to they gym, and now he’s lying down eating hay, one ear down, other up.

They were both standing up the evening after his and Bam’s latest fight. They flopping one is completely flopped, not just pointing to the side. Sometimes Bam, who is a lop, will raise his left ear when he’s cautious, but that seems more normal to me than a non-lop rabbit making his ear flop.

Penny is adorable! I’ll take a pic of Yohio when I return from the gym so you can see how he lokks now with his ears.

 

The above pic is of his new look.

[Bam]

It seems his ear is permanently down. Maybe the other one will fall, too. They do seem heavy. As long as it’s not a sign of sth wrong (injury, disease etc), he can carry his ears anyway he pleases. I’ve looked at his ears and felt with my fingers and there are no wounds and no signs of tenderness. I have noticed though that he’s grown more fur on his head and face, the “moulting-line” he had in the beginning has changed into a V-shape. Maybe he gets more hair due to better nutrition?

If anyone here knows anything that could be physically wrong with an adult bunny whose one ear suddenly lops, please tell me!

[LBJ10]

OMG, how cute is that? He might just be a one ear up and one ear down kind of bunny. It happens with lop mixes. He probably decided to not fight that heavy ear anymore.

[NewBunnyOwner123]

Too cute! Maybe he wants to be just like Bam

[Bam]

Yes,, maybe he wants to look like Bam =) Maybe he thought they would communicate better if they both speak the same ear-language =))

Great to her there are one-ear-up-one-ear-down-rabbits, I know it can happen with dogs, both crosses and pure-breds – for a long time I thought my German shepherd would be a one- ear-up-one-ear-down dog, she was almost 8 months when her second ear stood up. It is really cute but disqualifying in a pedigree-dog of course.

But my bunnies are both happily pedigree-less so their ears are free to do whatever they want =)

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