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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A Digdug’s personal business

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    • jackieblue
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        My son’s bun, Digdug is just a little sweetheart. Don’t know if it is a boy or girl and don’t really care at this point. Its an only child so it doesn’t matter (yet anyway).

        Dig is just about two months old now, maybe 2 and a 1/2 and I am puzzled by the bathroom business.  I think it is because I’ve added hay to the diet but at first, it was ALWAYS the regular brown mostly dry little balls of poo, no problem. Well, the past week or two, every other time of so, it moist and kinda pasty and 3 or 4 tiny balls make up one big poop ball (while still only less than the size of a pea).  Is it the hay as I suspect?

        Also, DD has a bad habit of nearly always weeing on my son’s bed no matter how long he has been in the cage prior as for having had ample time to “get it all out”. What I am wondering is why is it nearly always “milky” in color? Is that normal for rabbits?

        I do know I will eventually have to get a vet for at least fixing (if hormones get to be too much of a problem behaviour wise) but otherwise, I simply do not have the funds for all the other “little things” like nail cutting and grooming and shots, etc. My two cats are the same way. They have so much love and are fed and kept safe indoors but I just can’t pay for all the shots and other things, sorry if that is wrong.

         


      • MoveDiagonally
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          Hay should be 80-90% of a bunnies diet and is where they get most of their fiber. So the hay shouldn’t be causing any loose stool.

          What type of hay and pellets are you feeding? Are you feeding anything else (treats, ect)

          Rabbits often pee on beds because they smell very strongly of human and they enjoy marking stuff like that. Milky pee is fine I think the thing to look out for is “sludgy” pee.

          On vet care, if you’re in the US there are no approved vaccinations for rabbits. One thing to consider is that a little preventative care in the near future can help you save money in the long run. Preventative care is A LOT cheaper than emergency care.


        • tanlover14
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            Hmmm, I believe you are seeing cecotropes.  

            They are completely normal and are sacs filled with nutrients that usually bunnies will eat quickly before you can even see them.  But it’s very common for baby bunnies to leave them around.   Here’s a picture of normal poos and the cecotropes.  They are completely healthy.  

             

            The milky colored urine could be due to hormones.  All of my buns have produced this color urine when they begin to become hormonal.  And the smell is disgusting, LOL.   You really should take the new bun to get a vet visit so you can figure out the sex and determine whether or not to spay/neuter from there.  Waiting a month or two won’t hurt this though as sometimes at the young age your bunny is it is very common for them to be sexed wrong (even by an experienced vet).  If your bun is a girl – you will want to spay her.  Without being spayed, female rabbits have an 80% of developing uterine cancer by the age of 4.  So spaying is very important.  He/She will also most likely begin to loose their litter box habits when their hormones begin kicking in – mine was perfect until about 4 months.  And then it was too much.  They should all really be altered. 

             

            Hope this helped!    Also you can go to the information section of this website or the House Rabbit Society website to help find excellent vets that specialize in exotics (this is the type of vet you will need for a bunny). 
             


          • jackieblue
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              Yep! That is pretty close to them. Is he/she still considered a baby at 2-3 months? The food was the kind of rectangle shaped alfalfa bites I think. That is what the pet shop weaned them on to and sent me home with a bag full to help adapt from that to the kind that was in the rabbit kit which included food, cage, water bottle and bedding/litter box material. That food had all kinds of fruits and veggie looking hard bites as well as seed looking stuff. Dig has been on the hay + food daily for over two weeks now but the different poops has only been in the past 4 times I let him/her run free and exercise. When this stuff began is also when Dig got SUPER good at going in and out of the litter pan while out roaming free which he/r hadn’t done before which is why I noticed the difference—–I was picking them up as he/r went and got ahold of one that didn’t let go! LOL!
              I will call vets and see what happens. I think it is better to have a fixed animal but I DON’T think that is the cure all because my male cat still has “horny” times and tries to ride our older female. As my mom’s vet put it when she asked why they still did that despite being fixed “We don’t remove their brains Dianne!” and considering that is where the pituatary gland is and so forth….


            • MoveDiagonally
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                If Dig is female spaying is necessary, in my opinion, because of the high chance of uterine cancer without it. If Dig is male neutering isn’t as medically necessary and there are definitely male buns who live out their life without being neutered.

                If Dig is male than I think waiting until you see what his behavior ends up being like when he hits puberty (usually 3-5 months) before deciding whether or not you want to neuter is fine. Speutering is not a cure all but I would say that about 75-80% of the time spaying/neutering does help with bad behaviors and improving litter habits (based on what I’ve seen in forums and what my vet has said). Are there bunnies that get neutered and don’t “get better”? Of course! But the odds are in the favor of improved behaviors.

                I agree with tanlover and think a “baseline” vet visit where you confirm gender is probably in order in the future (but that it can wait for a bit). Rabbit.org has a really handy list of vets in different areas and you’ll want to make sure your vet is “rabbit savvy”.

                Blah rabbits, blah, vets, blah, blah. It sounds like you’re going to do right by Digdug though (cutest name ever).


              • jackieblue
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                  Thank you! My son was jealous of his brother and the cat that leans toward him and me and a cat that leans toward me and wanted something of his “own” to hopefully love him the most, lol. I think DigDug is a game character on one of those players.
                  And of course, I end up being the one supervising Dig and cleaning and feeding…go figure.


                • jackieblue
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                    I just looked thru his poops before dumping the tray, thank god they don’t stink, and didn’t see any of those other kind so either he/she is no longer having them or ate them all gone gone, ewww, lmbo!


                  • tanlover14
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                      He is definitely still a baby at 2-3 months. Rabbits aren’t considered adults until about 7 months of age.

                      The kind the pet store sent home is probably better than what came with the cage. Anything with those dried fruits, dried veggies, and seeds are actually bad for bunnies. (Why do they manufacture rabbit food with this junk in it? Who knows.) They usually have wayyy too much sugar for bunny. My favorite (and one of the best) is Oxbow Rabbit Pellets. They have a wonderful young rabbit food called Oxbow Young Rabbit and an adult food also. The young rabbit is made out of alfalfa which is great for growing bunnies but he will need to be weaned off this and on to the adult at around 5-6 months old.

                      Having three male buns I can tell you – their behaviors went WILD overnight when those hormones kicked in… peeing everywhere and be aware that they CAN get aggressive when this happens. As you said he is your childs pet, I wanted to ensure you knew that. If he bites or acts aggressive out of the ordinary you will know it’s time to take him in and possibly schedule an appointment for neutering. As for girls, my girls have turned into total jerks when their hormones began kicking in. My current female baby is about 4 1/2 months old and has began losing all her litter box habits (she has always been perfect) and has begun grunting and lunging (sometimes nipping) when I put my hand in her cage. It’s simply hormones. If your bun DOES begin to develop behaviors like this I would definitely advise altering as it usually takes any of those nasty negative behaviors right away.

                      If those were the poos you were seeing – there is no need to worry about seeing them about! Sometimes their bodies can also produce too many in which case they won’t eat them all. Usually this indicates a need for change in diet but with a baby this is VERY normal. Kind of like how you teach a kid to do things for themselves, the baby buns have to slowly learn also.

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