Rabbit Medicine and Surgery Q&A 07
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This rabbit presents to you with soft faecal material caked around its perineum. The owner reports that it has diarrhoea.
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How can you determine if this is indeed true diarrhoea? | True diarrhoea needs to be distinguished from uneaten caecotrophs or abnormally soft caecotrophs that adhere to the perineum.
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If you determine that true diarrhoea is not present, what can cause this presentation? | Caecotrophs may remain uneaten or be abnormally soft for many reasons:
rabbit cannot bend to reach the anus to eat its caecotrophs.
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