What is this on this rabbits foot?

[jon cornett]

We've shot 6 rabbits this year that have had this place on them. It has only been on the back legs of the 6 that we have seen have this. It is not a warble, its kind of a solid fleshy lump above the rear foot.

[S.R.Patch]

That lumpy flesh is scar tissue. I'd bet there was something in there that's worked it's way out or the rabbit pulled it out.
Been very wet this year and a rabbit sits on it's rear feet so that's a good dark, damp, warm spot for anything to take up residence.

[pine top]

that is a wolve hole

[Buckeye Blues]

Does anyone have a pic of what a wolve looks like?

And before anyone gets the cute idea please dont post a pic of the k-9 kind of wolf.

[just for fun beagler]

i shot one sunday that had about the same sore on its back leg. when i opened him up he had white spots on the liver. first sign of rabbit fever

[T LEE]

Does anyone have a pic of what a wolve looks like?

And before anyone gets the cute idea please dont post a pic of the k-9 kind of wolf.

This is a wolve that I dug out of a rabbit's hind leg last year.




I just had to do it Buckeye Blues

[Buckshot101]

Here is wolf worms/ bot flies.

Here is a squirrel infested with them:

[jon cornett]

what we have found is not a warble or what some call wolves or where a warble was, they have been solid lumps of flesh. very hard and solid.

[warddog]

It looks to me like tumors as it shows individual nodules. If it were from warbles it would be more watery and inflamed. I doubt you would see the hard encasiated nodules. If it were cysts they would not be real hard but kind of pliable and have fuild in them.

[mybeagles]

Did you eat the rabbits with that on the foot?

Mybeagles

[jon cornett]

warddog i agree with you they look like tumers too, just hard fleshy lumps.
and no we did not eat them cause we didnt know what they were.

[Buckeye Blues]

lol, Thanks alot T Lee. lol. That is actually the picture I had in mind when I wrote that.

And thank you Buckshot. I had no idea that wolves and warbles were the same thing.

[Bunnyblaster]

You guys need to toughen up!!! Old Bear Grylls would be eating those things for breakfast.

Seriously though, do we even have those up here??? I've never seen or heard of them before.

[ohlinger]

warble usualy die off after the first couple frosts of the year. That does'nt look like a warble spot to me.