Rabbits Ear Canker: Easy Guide to Bunny Owner
Ear canker in rabbits is a condition that is caused by the ear mite Psoroptes cuniculi. It is a common parasite of rabbits worldwide. The canker makes the irritation the lining of the ear, and causing oozing serum and thick crusts to accumulate within the ear canal. The lesions get to spread over the face and neck and make a hole in the eardrum that causing middle ear disease (otitis media). This condition is more painful and distressing for bunnies, and showing the symptoms, including head shaking, ear flapping, and ear scratching more often than usual. Ear canker is a zoonotic disease that means it can transmit from rabbits to humans, although this is rarer. This condition can extremely create and generally spread by direct contact from an infected to non-infected animal. As well as, your rabbits can be also infected, if make contact with the environment whenever any animal gets to scratch or shakes, due to flakes of the mite-infested canker having the live mites and egg...