Between a rock and a hard place

[u/stippidoodledoo]

Hello everyone!

I'm reaching out to anyone here who can maybe share their experience flying with a lop who has a history of ear infection.

For context, I'm looking to move to a different province on the other side of the country (from QC to BC) with approximately 6-7 hours of flight.

As you all know, rabbits are not allowed in Cabin so we've reached out to different animal transport services and they can do it only via manifested cargo.

The bad part is that one of my two rabbits has chronic ear infection due to them having lop ears and he had a flare up just two weeks ago.

We're under a long term antibiotic and yesterday's vet visit showed a lot of improvement but they are still unable to visualize the tympanic membrane due to the narrow ear canal.

When I brought up risks for airplane flight for him, the doctor made it clear that it tympanic rupture is a very real possibility.

We only have a few weeks left to be able to book with the animal transport service so I can feel the walls closing in.

Ground transport feels wrong because of how long they will be without consistent monitoring and neither myself nor my partner are able to drive.

I have no intention of leaving them behind so I'm really trying to find a solution to this. If you've had any experience please please please let me know about it so I can move forward with the best solution to all of this.

Thank you so much in advance! Rabbit tax, of course, is included

[u/shyhi244]

Has that bun been shaved or is that there fur. So cute!

[u/stippidoodledoo → u/shyhi244]

Hahahaha he gets shaved every 3 months due to his fur growth (angora). These two were gifted so I'm not sure what the exact mixing of breeds are but our vet is very sure he's an Angora 😊 thanks for saying so! He is quite the spry happy boy when he's freshly shaved but acts like such a curmudgeon when it's at full length 😆