Rabbit Ear Mites

Were you aware that rabbits could get ear mites?  With a rabbit, watching your rabbit’s behavior and looking in their ears easily detect them.

Some of the symptoms may be:

1.    Constantly scratching the ears
2.    Ear tissue is irritated
3.    Rabbit is constantly shaking or tilting head
4.    Eye spasms are noticed
5.    Ears have crusty substance

Crusty substance in the ear

If a rabbit has ear mites, there will be thick crusty debris and build up in their ear canal.  This needs to be treated and removed quickly, or the debris can eventually moved to the outer ear and the face.

This is actually caused by a serum that is formed in the lining of the ear.  As the mites move around the earwax, this irritates the inside of the ear canal.

A rabbit will appear and feel like he is going crazy with so many thousands of ear mites crawling around.  This is extremely irritating to the sensitive hairs and their ears.

Treatment of ear mites in rabbits

As far as treatments go for your rabbit, there are several options to use.  You rabbit will first need to be seen by a vet to give a diagnosis.  If there are ear mites present, then the most common treatment is Ivermectin, which will be injected.  This will treat the ear mites and you will need to be extremely thorough in keeping his living area very clean and hygienic.

The injections are only one form of treatment that is available.  Miticides are products are also used in cats and dogs.  You may want to ask your vet is there is a miticide available for rabbits.

Prevention is the best medicine.  If you can prevent these ear mites from attacking the ears of your pets, then you will be saving a lot of suffering on behalf of your beloved animal.

There are some great products for keeping their ears clean, which can safely remove any build up, and dirt, keeping their ears safe from ear mites.

Also, please be in tune to their space, keeping it as clean as possible.  This will ensure your rabbit from being infected again by these irritating ear mites.