How many rabbits die everyday?

Explanation:

I first became aware of the extent of the problem when contacted by rabbit owners asking advice about what to do about their pet bunnies that just lost their partners. As a result of frequent requests for help with lonely bunnies, I started a bunny “dating agency” and now almost a quarter of all our rabbits adopted from CottonTails are re-homed as “match-ups” every year. This prompted me to carry out a small study of 100 case histories (kindly supplied by bereaved rabbit owners) to determine why so many rabbits die young, and what, if anything could be done to prevent at least some of these deaths from occurring in the future.

The causes of premature death in pet rabbits falls into many categories as seen above. Almost a quarter (23%) of the cases studied were either put to sleep or died due to teeth associated problems. This mirrors the high incidence of teeth problems (malocclusion and jaw abscesses) seen in the rabbits coming in to CottonTails, which makes up 20% of our annual intake.

Over 17% of the rabbits studied died from digestive upset such as mucoid enteritis or diarrhoea. However, if one could do follow-up visits for all rabbits bought from pet shops, garden centres and other sources, I strongly suspect that this figure would be much higher, many baby rabbits dying within days of purchase from this condition.

10% showed symptoms such as head tilt and other central nervous system problems, the diagnosis being unclear but possible candidates being E. cuniculi (a parasite), or inner ear infection caused by pasteurella, a very common bacterial infection in rabbits.

The remaining 50% were divided between the following:8% unknown cause after short illness;

7% killed by a fox;

7% respiratory infection;

6% cancer;

6% sudden death with no symptoms (perhaps VHD?);

3% died under anaesthetic;

3% shock from fireworks;

2% kidney failure;

2% myxomatosis;

2% flystrike;

1% poisoned;

1% heat exhaustion;

1% accidental injury;

1% escaped and assumed dead.

this disease is :

* endemic (present in a defined area that is a village)

* a bacterial infection (treated with antibiotic)

* communicable by contact (by the hands)

manu-porterage is the most common mode of transmission, it transmits germs from one individual to another via the hands. this concerns infections of exogenous origin.

endemic disease, or endemic disease, refers to a disease that is constantly present in a given population, often tied to a specific geographic origin, as opposed to a pandemic that is not a sporadic disease.

antibiotics are molecules that have the property of killing (bactericidal) or limiting the spread (bacteriostatic) of bacteria.