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    • blackfang
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        I’m sorry if I made you confuse about my last message somewhere. I have to go through many horrible situations in my life since mid-August. I still have some unfinish businesses to do. Don’t want to explain here because it’s my personal life.

        No, I didn’t give my rabbits away. I still have my rabbits with me. It’s good thing that rabbits reduced my stress except few things (I’ll explain why soon)

        I won’t be here often for awhile until I will finish all of my unfinish businesses but I need helps that would make my life easier. Will you help me please? Thank you.

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        I adopt Belle in mid-august. She pooped everywhere. If she leave fecals around in free-range room, I tend to pick them up and put fecals in litter box (not in cage). Once a while, she pooped in her cage so I did same thing as I did when she pooped in free-range room but this time fecals go to litter box in her cage. Right now, she MOSTLY use her litter boxes in her cage and free-range room. That’s good, but..

        There is one thing that’s very furious me about her. For whole almost 3 months, she urined on pile of hay in her cage EVERY DAY! I have to replace her hay everyday. I already lost 50lbs orchard hay in nearly three months. 75 dollars worth of that hay gone because her piss was on hay. I tried to reduce her amount of hay for the day but hay would be gone in like less than 8 hours. I am at college and won’t able to come home until after 10pm because I have no car. I have to leave extra for her to eat. She is kind of rabbit who would eat 10 piece of hay at once. Few days ago, I ordered 50lbs of timothy hay and 50lbs of orchard hay and cost me around 150 dollars. I HOPE some day she will stop peeing on hay! Any solution for this situation?

        My roommate know someone who is a farmer and can grow non-alfalfa hay but it isn’t timothy or orchard hay. Just grass hay.. plain grass. I wasn’t sure if its good fiber for my rabbits? A local farmer willing to discount price for my roommate because my roommate helped her a lot. 2 dollars for 30ish lbs bale of grass hay. She gave us sample of grass hay to feed my rabbits to see if my rabbits like it. Seems like both of my rabbits love to eat it. That would be great for Belle because she urinated her hay. Its only two dollars.. that’s okay for me compare to 75 dollars worth of orchard hay.

        Is grass hay (no timothy or orchard.. just plain) good for rabbits as unlimited hay? I know it’s good but just want to have your opinions.

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        When I adopted Belle, she drank little bit of water. Next month, she drank a lot of water.. Pretty much like 1/4 of 96 oz water bottle so I replaced it like every 4 days. Last week.. she drank half of 96oz of water per day! She drank that amount of water everyday. I hope she don’t have diabetic. Isn’t she?

        I replaced Romeo’s water dish twice a day but he didn’t drink that much water as Belle drink.

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        Did you know that Belle didn’t shred her fur at all since I adopted her? A week after I adopted her, I tried to remove her old fur. Nothing came out. I was like . I didn’t groom her for almost three months.

        Romeo was shreding so badly for almost a month. I groomed him twice a day until last week. Whew.. a lot of work. However, Belle didn’t shred at all.. Isn’t that weird?

        Do you think something was wrong with Belle’s health or whatever reason for not shreding her fur?

        Last week, my roommate told me that he flipped Belle over and noticed she have hairless spot on her stomach. I was like it can’t be because she was already fixed almost two years ago! Is it something to do with slow growing fur? It looks like her stomach was shaved but it seem to be fine to me because no cut or scar on her stomach.

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        Since three months, it wasn’t good time for me to bond my rabbits but strange things happened.

        About two months ago, I stopped bonding rabbits because I don’t have time and dislike to deal with Romeo was trying to hump hump hump Belle. I didn’t want to deal with it for long time.  About a month later, I tried to bond them together in same room. Romeo didn’t hump her that much as he used to. They mostly laid down with their heads touch each other and starring at each other. Then I didn’t bond them together everyday.. just like every other day or every three days. Same progress.. Just their heads touch each other and starring at each other. I know they aren’t ready to bond together because Belle would hump Romeo if Romeo go in her cage.

        I didn’t wear any proper clothes to protect myself from rabbit fight. My rabbits didn’t fight expect to hump each other once a while..

        So.. What’s next step for me with them?

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        I know it is very long to read but please help me out. Thank you.


      • Monkeybun
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          Abotu they hay, you can try a hanging hay rack, instead of a pile on the floor. She wouldn’t be able to pee on it then! I can’t really help with the bonding, or water drinking, as I have no idea…


        • blackfang
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            I forgot to add about hay rack. Belle won’t eat hay in hay rack.


          • Monkeybun
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              hmm why not? can she not reach it? cant grab the hay from it?


            • blackfang
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                yes she can reach it. I don’t know why..


              • Monkeybun
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                  Hmm.. I’m not sure how to help with that then. maybe give her less hay, but more frequently? So she eats a bunch before you give her more. Less waste


                • Michelle&Lolli
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                    I wouldn’t worry too much about the hay and her peeing on it. They will pick thru and eat the good pieces. Unless she is peeing on all of it?

                    I eventually learned to put my buns hay in the litter box cause Lolli liked to pee and poop when she ate. lol Now it’s just Lolli and I just add a bit of fresh hay each day until I change the litter which is about every 3-4 days. But she will pick thru and eat the good pieces.


                  • jerseygirl
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                      Hi Taurus! It’s nice to hear from you again. I’m sorry to hear you’ve has some difficulties.

                      You do seem to be paying a lot for hay. If grass hay that this farmer has is horse quality hay then it’s probably fine for your rabbits. Another thing you can do is buy straw and put mostly that over the litter, then place some of the nice hay at one end. Straw is not as nutritional as hay but rabbits can eat it and it adds fibre to the diet.

                      Belle may have trained to use litterbox by peeing on hay. I sometimes feel like I’m wasting it but then someone here mentioned to look at it like it’s a litter material. So if you can get a cheap alternative for the boxes, you won’t feel so bad replacing it. And you can always offer orchard and timothy in a rack, bowl or cardboard tube toy.

                      With shedding, it happens differently for each rabbit I think. My doe doesn’t seem to shed much. Her main one which is now happens once. My lop buck though has a dense coat and loses fine underfur constantly. I don’t think you have to worry about Belle. If her coat is in good condition, she eats and toilets well, then she’s probably fine, just different to Romeo.


                    • RabbitPam
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                        I wouldn’t worry about the shedding. I have had Sammy for a while now, and she has never, ever, blown her coat or had even a remotely major shed. It’s just weird, but I comb her every few days, which she loves, and it all seems to stay the same. Every now and then I find a batch of fur stuck to her xpen bars, so it looks like she grooms and it leaves her, but it’s not visible to me at all. I think it varies among breeds and climates. Also, many bunnies take a long time to grow back the belly patch. If it’s not red or sore or infected, it’s OK, too.

                        I would suggest two hay racks, in two spots in her cage. If she’s hungry, she’ll eat it. If she eats a lot, she’ll have enough handy during your long school hours. And if she pees on it, it will be on the pile she pulls out of the rack and not the whole amount. Just be sure to give her something else as her litter.
                        Hope things start going better for you soon.

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