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Forum DIET & CARE Clumsy Bunny

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    • Lightchick
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        Lizzy is a complete disgrace as a hopper!  She misses and runs into things and wipes out and doesn’t jump hard enough and then falls… 

        She just tried to jump out of her pen, which she does approximately 30 times a day, and slipped on the hay in her litter box (the take-off/landing zone), and landed her back paw on the edge of the pen.  She scares the @#$% out of me!  So I go cooing after her, and flip her over, and look at her paw, and it looks okay, but I’m not a vet and I don’t know what I’m looking for.  She’s still hopping around and eating her lettuce and demanding pets, so I guess she’s okay…

        But I remember a post of Osprey’s recently about how some of his buns had wounds he couldn’t even see, that the vet found…

        Any advice to a mother of the world’s least-graceful rabbit on how to check for injuries when her clutz of a diva-bunny wipes out and smashes into the furniture?  Do rabbits get bruised?  What are the warning signs that they’ve bumped themselves hard enough to require a vet-trip?

        (It’s a good thing she has a hutch and not an NIC condo…she’d probably manage to fall off the top story and break her little neck…)

        ((In fact, once she got freaked out at the vacuum–the little cordless dust-buster!  It wasn’t even the full-sized one!–ran up the couch, onto the top of her hutch, and then JUMPED DOWN!  It’s probably 3.5 feet from the top of that hutch to the ground!  I almost had a heart-attack, and now I make sure she’s locked in her hutch whenever I run anything that sounds vaguely vacuum-like…))


      • bunnytowne
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          Hmmm how old is she? Maybe still growing would account for her clumsiness. Laith used to try to jump into his cage that was on top of Cotton’s. HE would miss or bang his face into it and sneeze n sneeze. Finally I decided to place him in his cage so he wouldn’t have an accident. He learned to wait for me on the floor and look up at his cage so I would go put him in there. Well Cotton could make that jump no problem and they were both the same breed. Same age too. I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe a trip to the vet. Perhaps they would have an answer for you. I really truly don’t know what else to say. Maybe someone else does tho. Hopefully.

          Poor bun. Poor bun parent. That must really give you a scare.


        • dmh426
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            honestly, i have Sophie who loooooves to binky…into furniture, walls, closet doors….. I think it’s like having a child. At least that’s how i try to think of it. You pick them up, brush them off and put them back on the bike. if she’s not ok, you’ll know.


          • Sarita
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              Have you tried putting a sheet over the top of her pen (just clip it with clothespens) to help deter her jumping over it?

              I don’t know if rabbits get bruised but I imagine they do and they can get strains – I think you just have to watch them hop around to see if they are injured in that way.


            • Cassi&Charlie
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                Sounds like Layla, she binkies into everything, tries to jump onto things, misses and falls down. I must be a bad mummy because I just laugh at her mostly because she picks herself up and wonders merrily towards her next clumsy act.


              • ilovemylittleman
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                  Just so you know you are not alone
                  Little Man is both clumsy and unlucky… He crashes into everything and ALWAYS falls on his head when he gets in and out of his cage. If he gets frustrated at me or scared it’s ever worse.Probably gets it from me, I have no grace either.


                • Kokaneeandkahlua
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                    Hehehe clumsy is kind of funny, like if Rupert gets running, he’ll run into things. Kokanee, a couple of times hopped on the coffee table and ended up surfing right back off on a peice of paper. I died laughing.

                    Apparently young rabbits are clumsy and can’t judge their abilities well enough. You want to be careful of extreme heights (If she gets up on a bookshelf etc). Back of the couch down is an average bunny jump height so no worry but a high table or counter you won’t want. I’d watch for any limping etc. I think like dmh said, you’ll know if they are not ok.


                  • BunnyLiz
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                      Oh my gosh i have a funny story! In Hammers attempt to keep up with the speed of light or something he went to fast and couldnt stop at a wall lol. He went straight into a door stop, the spring kind that go on the base boards. Of course he thought i was going to attack him or something with its sudden noise. He quickly ran off to groom himself, thinking to himself that if he acted natural nobody would notice lol. Now the door stop is a toy to him. He often hops and boxs at it. Its SOO cute! i guess as he gets older he will become less clumsy


                    • Sarah M
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                        wood floors make Maxwell’s binky attempts very fun to watch. Sometimes I worry that he’s gonna hurt himself but it never seems to faze him.


                      • Sage Cat
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                          Kay sometimes throws toys around so hard that she falls over backwards – then she attacks the toy even harder – I guess it is the toys fault she fell over.

                          As K&K said, watch for any limping and maybe excessive licking of what could be a tender paw.


                        • (dig)x(me)x(now)
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                            I want to see videos. Haha, the videos online of cats eating sh*t are pretty dang funny. I have a little more sympathy for rabbits, but it would still be a good laugh.


                          • (dig)x(me)x(now)
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