Dogs eating rabbit poop?

[lovebellabun]

I just read that if dogs eat rabbit poop they can get avian flu and other diseases! Is this common? My dogs eat anything and everything. They don’t have access to her but I am nervous if a few roll out under the gate to her area and they get to them.

[Benthebunny]

honestly, i have never had a dog. my advice is, keep the dog away from the rabbit area. possibly buy an xpen covered in blankets to make sure nothing flies out 

[lovebellabun]

That’s what I was thinking. I am still working on getting her home all together. When I got her I didn’t have any clue how expensive this little diva could be. So my kitchen has been taken over and I have been eating tv dinners in the living room. So this weekend I am going to work on getting something more permanent and sanitizing everything. She is such a brat. She wants in the dryer all the time. I left it open one morning and couldn’t find her and she was just hanging out there.

[Benthebunny]

My Dog Ate Rabbit Pellets. Should I Be Worried? Probably not. Most people who live in the country aren’t much concerned about their dogs eating the occasional rabbit poop pellet and accept it as a normal part of their dog’s behavior. However, here is what veterinarians say about the risk of worms or other diseases. Some dogs get an upset stomach after any change in their diet. Eating too many rabbit pellets can cause the same discomfort for a dog who isn’t used to them. If this happens to your dog you will notice signs of nausea or stomach pain. These include loss of appetite, vomiting, drooling, and lethargy. If your dog remains lethargic for more than a few hours, still refuses food, and/or vomits any blood, take them to the vet right away.

https://pethelpful.com/dogs/My-Dog-Ate-Rabbit-Poop-Now-what

[lovebellabun]

Yea my parents dogs eat it all the time. 

[Benthebunny]

Hope that hepled <3

[lovebellabun]

of course! Thank you! Sorry, I am still at work and I was on a long call.

[LBJ10]

With indoor house rabbits, the risks are minimal. Unless your bunny has a parasite, it’s unlikely a dog would get anything from eating bunny poop.

[flemishwhite]

My belief is that bunny poop is not all that dirty.  Their principal gut bacteria is a bacteria that transforms cellulose to glucose. This is the bacteria that lives in their cecum stomachs.  You get this bacteria on your hands and ingest it, it isn’t going to cause you any problems.  On two occasions, I’ve scooped up bunny poop pellets in my hand and smelled them.  There is no fecal odor. Bunny poop has a herbal smell to it with a onion or slightly sulfur overtone to it.  Rabbit poop is known to have a residual protein content to it.  When we first got Bunny, a rescue rabbit, our grandson had a hamster..  We put the hamster in the rabbit’s cage. Bunny licked the hamster as if it was a baby bunny.  The hamster kept itself busy eating bunny poops.  I really don’t think your dog will be harmed by eating bunny poops.

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Cellulose is a long poly saccuride molecule.  If you snipe it off at the correct short lengths, you create glucose.  The bacteria in bunny’s cecum stomach cut the cellulose molecules into the short lengths to create glucose.  The cecum bacteria live on the glucose they create and the excess glucose they create feeds the bunny. That’s why your bunny can eat grass hays. 

[Bam]

My dog eats bunny poop now and then. She’s especially happy if she finds a left-over cecal.

[Vienna Blue in France]

My rainbow dog used to sit waiting patiently and eagerly for bun to come out of her cage and then spend loads of time head in cage, bum out, eating everything she could. Choosing the scrummy poops and leaving the unscrummy ones…..

(PS : rainbow dog died of old age…. not of poop-eating consequences !!! )

[lovebellabun]

I feel better. They haven’t had a chance. This weekend I am making her a more permanent area, so they can at least see eachother. Right now they know she is there but haven’t seen her yet.

[Q8bunny]

Oh, this thread made laugh. VIENNA!

[BinkyBunny]

I volunteered for a local rabbit rescue for many years. There was this amazing gentle dog (hunter dog no less) that had a really calm energy and he loved just hanging out with the rabbits, and the rabbits would come up and check him out if he passed by their pen. No fear. He was so gentle and sweet, but it must have just been his doggie manipulation to get close to eating rabbit poop LOL! He would eat whatever rabbit poop he could find (gag!). We had to shoo him away when we were cleaning, but he had a real obsession with rabbit poo snacks. He also died of old age — no rabbit poo consequences

[BinkyBunny]

Oh, I forgot to mention — a previous member posted, from a couple of years ago, posted  that he was snacking on some stuff that he placed on the floor,,but then realized he had just popped a bunny poo in his mouth accidentally…..(ACK!!!). 

 He survived.

[Q8bunny]

You know, you guys are all mentioning how bunny poo eaters lived to a ripe old age despite their choice of snacks. But did it ever occur to anyone it might be BECAUSE of the poos?

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