{"id":9019,"date":"2021-07-22T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2021-07-19T17:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T22:47:50","slug":"rabbit-leg-injury-makes-miracle-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/rabbit-leg-injury-makes-miracle-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit With Leg Injury Makes Miracle Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9021\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottontail-rabbit-epps-202107-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"cottontail rabbit with healing leg injury sitting in grassy yard\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottontail-rabbit-epps-202107-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottontail-rabbit-epps-202107-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottontail-rabbit-epps-202107-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottontail-rabbit-epps-202107.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This story was shared by licensed wildlife rehabilitator Deanna Epps of Waxhaw, North Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I received an adult Eastern cottontail from my veterinarian\u2019s office. It was unknown what had happened to him. He had a large tear with partial degloving to the left hind leg area. Intake weight was 900 grams (about 2 pounds).<\/p>\n<p>On Day 1, the wound was cleaned and pain medication along with antibiotics were given. I called our wildlife vets, but both were out of town for 10 days. I then called my local vet to see if he would stitch up the bunny. He looked at my pictures and said, \u201cHe won\u2019t recover even with surgery.\u201d So I called our wildlife vets back and made an appointment for when they returned.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I continued wound care, debridement of dead tissue, pain meds, and antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of Day 1, I started feeding him <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-herbivore\/\">EmerAid IC Herbivore<\/a> daily with fluids. I made a slurry of the <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-herbivore-sustain\/\">EmerAid Sustain Herbivore<\/a> that I put in his container in the evening. In the morning when I would go in to feed him, all of the Sustain was gone, as were the greens I provided. I continued this daily.<\/p>\n<p>I then cut back on the regular Herbivore feeding, but kept the Sustain feedings every night.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got him to our vet. He cut off the dead tissue and stitched him up. I brought him home and continued meds and EmerAid Sustain Herbivore nightly. He did very well with no problems after the surgery. He healed very quickly and gained weight.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, 28 days later, I released him weighing 1,000 grams (about 2.2 pounds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cottontail rabbit with a bad leg wound is nursed back to health in about a month with daily care from wildlife rehabber Deanna Epps and help from wildlife vets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rabbit With Leg Injury Makes Miracle Recovery - 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