Dead/Dying wild rabbits

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Last week I found a baby rabbit in my garden alive but unable to move.
I brought him to the vet and they told me it was a neural (I think that was the word) issue some rabbits get and had to be put down.
This afternoon I found a dead rabbit in pretty much the same spot.
I'm just wondering is there some disease that kills them going round.

Kristopherus

Is Myxo still around?

ganmo

Kristopherus wrote: »

Is Myxo still around?

Yup and there's a new virus that may have come over from Europe/uk

Op expect to find more

Rabbits breed... like rabbits.. as so many don't survive because of nature, predation, disease etc.. As a species they're still doing pretty good; myxo didn't finish them and any new virus won't either.

_Brian

Myxo is awful and seems to appear regularly in large populations.

Came across it last year, haddent seen it for maybe 10 years.

Eddie B

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Rabbits breed... like rabbits.. as so many don't survive because of nature, predation, disease etc.. As a species they're still doing pretty good; myxo didn't finish them and any new virus won't either.

I sure do hope that is true. Been at least four or five years here now since VHD virus has hit my area, and rabbits are
all but gone. No sign of any bounce back, like you'd usually get after the Mixi.

Its sad to see. One particular quarry used to have a huge population, now has very little. With weeds growing up through the burrow entrances, where once the place would be moving with them.