Hi!
I have a male rabbit I found on the street a year ago. At first he was really fine, but about 2 months ago he started to grind his teeth loudly and unfortunately I just now realized his front teeth are too big.
I don't know anything about rabbit's teeth so all I can tell is they are unusually large. Upper incisors look like having a "^" shaped space where lower incisors fit.
I know I should take him to vet asap, but in this little city I live in there's not even one bunny vet, or even an exotic vet
I don't know what to do or where else to ask for advice. Should I take him to a dog's vet with experience with teeth and see if he can clip or rasp the incisors? Would he need to anesthetize my bunny? If so, what should be used?

Thank you.

By the way, I live in northern Mexico, the nearest city is about 4 hrs away and I'm in the biggest city of the state. Can't believe I haven't been able to find a good vet for my bunny

I would make as many phone calls as you can first try and sus out all the vets, some will just be after money. Also try calling any rescue centers or rabaabit breeders for advice

is your rabbit having a hay based diet? handfuls of hay everyday a few veg and tiny amount of petshop food, if not the lack of hay would cause teeth to overgrow.

If his back teeth are over grown too and you cant find a good vet it might be kinder to pts, sorry

He eats no petshop food. I used to have another bunny who got very fat because of to much petshop food, so this time we decided not to give him pellets. He eats a lot of greens (broccoli, chard, coriander, celery, lettuce, cabbage, radish leaves, and some plants in the garden), carrot and fresh grass, as well as occasional strawberry, apple, papaya, mango, pear, oats, guava, tortilla, and bread because my father loves to give him bread and tortilla and there's no way we can stop him.
But the bunny stopped eating the fresh grass a while ago and now he doesn't eat as much greens as before. He even choked twice while eating lettuce leaves and coriander, we think because it got stuck in his front teeth and so he could not chew it well.
I've called practically every vet in the yellow pages, and any of them has experience with rabbits. I even took him before to a vet that seemed to be good, but the way he did the checkup made me think he didn't know enough. He just cut bunny's claws, looked for external parasites and gave him an anti-parasitic suspension. Right now I'm trying to contact one of the zoo's vet to see if he does know about bunnies since there are several very healthy looking rabbits in the zoo, but still had no luck with that.
And about rescue centers, well there isn't a rescue center here. It's not very common to have rabbits as pets and people who have one don't give them as much care as to dogs and cats and it seems they don't take bunnies to the vet.
Now I'll try to look for breeders, thank you for telling me.
Meanwhile, is there something I can do to help him while I look for another vet?
And how can I know if the back teeth are overgrown too? I really hope they are not 'cause I love this bunny very much

It's worth asking some of the local rabbit breeders, some breeders clip thir own buns teeth, I used to do my buns but only ones who came to me in a bad state, I havent done it for ages simply becase they stay down naturally with what they eat...and I would never advise anyone to do it if they weren't experienced. I'm surprised no vet can do it, I thought all vet did this in training.If not it's about time they did. They don't usually need anesthatising it's easy to relax..even sedate a bunny without the need for anesthetic, you just need a good vet to do it ...I hope you can find one soon
Clare xx

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