Sick Rabbit

3 years ago
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Ok so this is another ill animal I encountered.. previously there was a dead groundhog with bloody ears and nose, and the animal rotting back in the bush I didn't trespass to examine but I could smell the dead rotting corpse while jogging by for a week. Today also found some eagle feathers but probably not related. I've been getting neck/jaw cramps while out running too or when I get back but probably nothing like whatever this has, but its neck was stuck sideways couldn't turn its head like some form of animal meningitis or something. It is easy to see why disease can spread of the food chain so easily... but also may make sense why animals wait until their prey gives flight to catch it as its inability to run away could indicate illness. None the less this animal seems to be easy prey for any preditor and would pass up the food chain with whatever it had if it was zoonotic and able to pass between species. Perhaps this is spreading in the rodentia / rabbit population the feathers if related may be a bird of prey that ate one of these sick critters and is loosing feathers or molting now. But probably not that but this rabbit definately looks sick with something.

I wonder if this is just head tilt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6NTrhhTFs

I wonder if it is E cuniculi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEsYuYz0PI

Encephalitozoonosis?

https://www.dechra.co.uk/therapy-areas/companion-animal/exotics/antiparasitics-antifungals/disease-information/e-cuniculi

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