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Forum DIET & CARE Trimming angora rabbit face, whiskers?

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    • cubique
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         Hi all,

        I don’t have an angora rabbit, neither do I trim my rabbits whiskers but I was just really curious and it has been bugging me haha.

        For those people who have to trim their rabbits’ face fur, how do they go about avoiding the whiskers, I look at my bunny and his face is full of whiskers!

        How do they actually avoid it.

         

        Also,  i was reading this article: http://www.rabbitnetwork.org/articles/angora.shtml

        I quote: 

        For the cheek area I used to try to cut around the whiskers, which proved to be almost impossible, especially when you have a squirmy bun on your hands. Not to mention, Lily despises her cheek area being touched. Now, (based on the advice of an angora rescue fanatic), I just cut the entire area, whiskers and all.

        I thought we weren’t supposed to trim the whiskers!


      • manic_muncher
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          I don’t have an angora either, but considering my bunny would squirm if I were trying to do that, I imagine I’d probably end up trimming whiskers too. Thankfully whiskers in general grow back fairly quickly. I imagine they are used for the same reason dogs and cats have them, to judge hot and cold of things and measure distance. I remember when we were kids and didn’t know better, we gave our kitty a ‘trim’… whiskers and all.. when he went to run away, he tried several times, unsuccessfully, to run through the chain link fence. He just didn’t realize he couldn’t fit. I’m certain it was because his whiskers were gone.

          I guess if there were no changes to the environment, the bunny would know where he could and couldn’t go. But if he were startled and saw a getaway that was too small and he’s never used it, he might hurt himself trying to get in it because the whiskers were gone to judge distance.

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