those pictures have put tears in my eyes, such a sad way to go and such stupid advice from a vet. sometimes i go and know more about rabbits than they do. when i was younger they never told me about fly strike. so i sadly learnt the hard way from one of my rabbits catching the horrible disease. so ever since my rabbit has never ran out on fly strike protection and never will

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ah this made me cry
aw my god man look at the little thing
it makes me so angry when vets give bad advice/info

so sorry for your loss and ty for posting this

So sorry to hear about your poor rabbit, very very sad.

I'd just like to say the Jabs don't always work! I had two rabbits when i was younger 1 called Snowy who lived till she was 8 had just died of old age, she went to the vet once to get the myxomatosis jab i never kept it up to date. The other rabbit i had was Smoky who died at the age of 4 who was at the vets a few times, survived fly strike twice but died of kidney failure and who also never had the jab. Then recently i found a rabbit whilst walking the dog which we kept and named him Yogi the vet said he was around 1-2 years old his claws where about 2cm long!!! we then rescued a rabbit from the blue cross called Milly both had there jabs then last thursday took Yogi to the vet as his eyes were all wet and swollen he went a few weeks before with the same thing and was told he had an allergy to the dust in the hay but this time it was really bad, same vet took one look at him and diagnosed him with myxomatosis! he was given some pain relief and some antibiotics and was told to bring him back next day which we did and has was given more antibiotics and we now have some to give to him. Hes still eating, drinking, weeing and pooing. But he does find it hard to breath some times his eyes are swollen and also his genitals. He looks in a bad way but the vet said if hes still eating and drinking he may get through it. So like i said the jabs don't always work.

There is always a risk that rabbits will contract myxi, the jab doesn't stop the infection BUT any rabbit that is up to date with vaccinations has a chance of fighting it with around the clock care.

I hope your bun can fight through this horrible illness, also as your rabbit is vaccinated you need to tell your vet to report it to the manufacturers because at the moment there is a HUGE outbreak so any vaccinated rabbit that catches myxi need to be reported to them so that changes to the vaccine can be made

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Unfortunatly My Bunny Yogi died last sunday. He was doing really well untill the early hours where he was taking short sharp breaths and could no longer stand just wanted to lay on his side and was breathing fast. We knew he was in alot of pain even tho he had pain relief that morning which is ment to last 24 hours so it wasn't fair to keep him going when he just seemed to want to give up. So we had him put to sleep. Our other rabbit at the moment is showing no signs of it and i hope she dosen't. She does seem lonely and we will be getting another its a shame this is the second husbun she has lost this year! we have another 2 weeks if shes ok we can go ahead a rescue another for company. RIP Yogi bear x

I will definately be takeing my 2 buns to the Vet's after reading this, I brought them from Pets at home and the guy said they didn't need it as house rabbits and how the Vet 's just try to get money from you, I think I would rather trust a vet and know my buns are protected.