A few strung together poops here and there are OK, and if Tucker is still eating and having normal poops as well as the strung ones, then I think she will be fine until you are able to get to the store tonight. I have a couple bunnies that always have some strung together poops even though they get a papaya tablet every day. I’m not to sure myself about using the canned pineapple or the human supplement, but if you are unsure, then I think that Tucker will be OK until you can get to the store. Keep an eye on her to make sure she still continues to be eating every now and then and having normal poops – but otherwise she sounds like she’s doin OK!

I wouldn’t worry too much about a few poops like that. Bindi and Stormy get them occasionally, usually when they are shedding a bit. When I notice poops like that I make sure to groom them everyday for a while because they are obviously ingesting more hair than usual.

A great way to get off loose hair is to take a dish of water, wet your hands, shake off the excess and groom bunny with your hands, repeat until there is no fur coming off (be prepared for a severe disapproving bunny…). This gets all the hair off that would normally end up on their tongue.

Sometimes I see they’re strung by hay also, that hasn’t broken down so much in the gut. I think they can also ingest a bit of human hair unfortunately. Obviously your bun is able to pass some of it else you wouldn’t be seeing this ‘phenomenon’.

Read this, it tells you that hairballs actually do not occur because of eating too much hair. Read about the Hairball myth section.

http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/ileus.html

I also liked this answer on yahoo. It seems beliveable and has good links.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080304174832AA8Qwud

Read the link this link, it is also on the yahoo page

http://www.hrschicago.org/hairballfr.html

Sorry, this info kind of disproves all of you who feed your bunnys paypaya tablets, but it is what I think because it all makes sence.

I mean if rabbits have lots of trouble passing hair then how did they survive in the wild?

I think they survived because of the surroundings.  Running through overgrowth, under bushes and down into dens would result in the branches and other things pulling the loose fur off of them.  In the house though, we keep anything that could snag their fur away from them.

Maryann used to have the pearl strings quite often until I began feeding her hay regularly.  Now it is a non-issue.

It is actually good to have the string of pearl poops because that means the ingested hair is being eliminated out of the system.

We bunny people are a gross crew… haha

But, on the other hand, it doesn’t mean that it is a bad thing or building up in their system if there aren’t any.  Either way, if they’re poopin’ they’re good.

Yes, that is true too. Poopin is always good.

Pepe who had not pooped for 2 weeks finally pooped and he had lots of strings of pearls for about a week after he finally pooped. He did have a mass in his stomach and I was happy to have him poopin.

I would not give chewable papaya tablets for humans to a bunny- there is added sugar to make it taste good for humans.  In the Oxbow tablets there is only the natural sugar from the papaya itself.  If your bunny is not used to that much sugar it could cause diarrhea.  So I think you are better off not giving the human version- as it would be like giving papaya flavored CANDY.

Plus- as others have pointed out- it is common to see and it means that the fur is passing thru the bunnys system.