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MY RABBITS NAIL HAS FALLEN OFF

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Question
My rabbit is a doe she is only about 4 months old,she lives outside in a two story hutch.And today i was playing with her and i noticed her nail was hanging on by 1 thread i put her back in her hutch and it had fallen off.Is this something i should be worrying about?  

Answer
Not really Katey, this happens VERY often when a person picks the bunny up and takes her out of the cage - they do not notice that a nail gets caught in the door frame and they pull on the poor bunny and rip a nail out.  This hurts very much for the poor bunny.  Solution is to be very careful when you take her out of the cage and put her back and try to avoid strangers taking her in and out of the cage.