Scabby Hare?

[Guest SJM]

I flushed a mountain hare the other day for the gun and my pup retreived it very nicely, but afterwards when I was taking the belly out of it, I noticed it had crusty, pussy sores around its mouth now the pic is not very good as its off my phone, but it looked for all the world like myxy this is the first time I have seen this, just wondering if anyone knows what it is? I checked its eyes and they seemed normal, no sign of puffyness or scabs, but the other place you usually see it in myxied rabbits is around the arse, had a look and sure enough its arse was red and scabby as well, ok dont laugh, I did take a pic of that too but then I thought well if I by any chance get stopped by a friendly and enquisitive policeman and he sees the mouth pic he might go stand by with the straight jacket officers, but the scabby arse pic well that will be the clincher, he will be calling for the men in the white coats so I deleted it, but basically it looked very much like the mouth, scabby and infected :sick:

 

Anyone seen this in hares or know what it might be?

 

[wullielennox 158]

well sjm they have started to shoot there,,so my opinion is the hoity,toity shooters blew the face aff it bad shootin,,,been eatin jaggy nettles

Edited October 25, 2008 by wullielennox

[Guest bigredbusa]

that is pretty far gone , i havent seen mxyi like that on a rabbit either . you do know what you have just opened yourself up to ' them dogs can only retrieve mxyi ones' lol

[Guest SJM]

PMSL no Wullie it was definately not shot, the scabs were the same kind you see on myxied rabbits I asked one of the keepers and he mentioned a tick borne thing called "louping ill" which apparently affects hill sheep quite badly, but when I googled it I couldnt find anything about the hares having sores around their mouth/anus ?

[Guest SJM]

that is pretty far gone , i havent seen mxyi like that on a rabbit either . you do know what you have just opened yourself up to ' them dogs can only retrieve mxyi ones' lol

 

aye I should have known better than to post on here and get sensible replies lolol but I thought it might be worth a try, never seen one like it before and I have retreived plenty with the dogs, I really should have kept the arse pic and give youse even more ammo hahaha

[wullielennox 158]

that is pretty far gone , i havent seen mxyi like that on a rabbit either . you do know what you have just opened yourself up to ' them dogs can only retrieve mxyi ones' lol

 

aye I should have known better than to post on here and get sensible replies lolol but I thought it might be worth a try, never seen one like it before and I have retreived plenty with the dogs, I really should have kept the arse pic and give youse even more ammo hahaha

cought 1 localy few years back that had white puss around the mouth area and back end but was not in good order that 1 did look like maxi very thin,,

[Guest SJM]

this one was in normal bodily condition and ran ok, I didnt notice the scabs until I was gutting it, what was the one you saw wullie was it a brown hare and did you think it was myxy or something like it when you saw it?

[Paul in North Lincs 15]

maybe it's been doing the mighty growl on a mucky old whore;.....I mean 'hare' :sick:

[wullielennox 158]

this one was in normal bodily condition and ran ok, I didnt notice the scabs until I was gutting it, what was the one you saw wullie was it a brown hare and did you think it was myxy or something like it when you saw it?

a did that thoght it was maxi and a brown hare up quarter really looked scabby n milky puss around the mouth n scabby a**e

[Joe Kelly 0]

Some hares get Macsimatosis. I read that before. I have never one.

[Guest SJM]

Cheers Joe, I wasnt sure about that, if myxy was a zoonosis (sp?) that could cross the species or if it was rabbit specific, off to do some more research about it now

[scothunter 12,609]

Maybe it was fighting with something?Another hare perhaps.I dunno just throwing that in there

[Guest jordy p]

good looking hare that lol

 

jp

[Guest SJM]

Good idea Adam. . . 'cept I fed it to the dogs mate nowt goes to waste in my kennels no even the scabby lepers

After a bit of research on the net today I beleive I have found the name of it, the symptoms seem to match something called "Contagious Mucocutaneous Dermatitis" nasty stuff by all accounts :sick:

[Back Stabbath 1]

Could it be orf? Dunno if hares can get that, but you'll know in a few days if it is anyway! lol