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My rabbit has a sore with a hole and brown liquid. What should I do?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Small Animal | Rabbit | Male | unneutered | 10 months and 16 days old | 3 lbs

My pet rabbit has a sore on his back/ bottom with a hole in the center. Brown liquid comes out. What do I do???

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Answered By Dr Stafford, BVetMed, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on November 17th, 2017

It sounds like Wagner has an abscess, the best thing to do is to take him to the vet to have this cleaned out, antibiotics and daily cleaning are usually necessary. There is a chance that this could be some sort of infected tumour, but the abscess is usually more common.

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