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Date Posted: 04:07:17 08/16/01 Thu
Author: Susie
Subject: Re: Thanks Marguerite
In reply to: Marguerite 's message, "Re: Bunny bites his feet" on 16:37:07 08/15/01 Wed

Marguerite,

Thank you for the information. Since I am so careful about cleaners and diluting everything that gets near the bunnies, I hadn't thought of this.

What you said in your previous post made sense as well. I have a friend with a rescued Fawn Doberman who has allergies (they really act up in the summer) and although he doesn't "chew" on his feet, he nearly licks the skin off.

Susie, the Bunnies, the Dobies and the Piggies

>Hi Katrina,
>Here is a reply from one person I wrote to who is quite
>knowledgable about rabbits. I should have another
>reply son.
>
>Fwd....
>
>For your rabbit question, this problem is usually
>caused by the use of
>quaternary ammonium disinfectants, which can't be used
>for rabbits! So, no
>"farm-type" or "Lysol" disinfactants on any rabbit
>equipment, just use household
>bleach. Also, I would take out the shavings, virtually
>all export wood is
>treated with something, fungicides at least, and
>shavings have been banned in
>hog bedding for many years now because of that. Just
>use some wheat or barley
>straw for bedding. The problem should go away when
>these things are removed from
>the environment. That goes for cleaning the floors in
>the house too, the
>cleaning compounds leave residues! Just use water and
>a bit of laundry detergent
>to clean the floors, no cleaners with "disinfectants".
>Damp mop with some plain
>water with a bit of bleach afterwards if some
>"sanitizing" is desired.
>
>This was a big issue a few years back, with the ARBA
>type people, they were
>insisting this was caused by the use of ethoxyquin in
>the feed, and they put the
>bunnies on high vitamins and edta chelation therapy to
>try to "detoxify" the
>rabbits. But it was all nonsense, and not the real
>cause and not the proper
>treatment! All the "ethoxyquin" web sites are complete
>horse manure! Amazing that all that
>truly stupid info keeps floating around!
>*****************
>
>So there are some hints that may help.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Marguerite

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