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- 01/23/2013 at 6:10 PM
  Cooper
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  My rabbit is a 2 year old fixed male mini rex. I checked in on him after school today to find that his food area has two brownish-red puddles. I checked him over, and found it seems to be coming from his anus.
  
  I can’t see a vet until at least tomorrow, if not later. Any thoughts? I’m gonna dab him down with a washcloth to see if he’s still doing it, but I wanna know if you think it’s blood or something else.
- 01/23/2013 at 6:23 PM
  Snowytoshi
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  Is he eating or drinking? If he appears to be in pain you will need to get him to a vet ASAP.
- 01/23/2013 at 6:28 PM
  Cooper
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  Well, I just took him down to the main (my parent’s) house to clean him up (pipes froze last night, and they just got fixed, so water is incoming at the moment.) He doesn’t seem to still be doing it. When I wiped up the fluid it was pure brown.
  
  Thankfully, as I found when carrying him and trying to clean him, he’s acting completely normal. He bobbed his head curiously when we walked to the house, he kicked a bit when I tried to check him on my own (ended up having one of them hold while I cleaned him.) Now he’s sat in his cage grooming himself.
  
  Other recent information: Last night he was thumping up a storm, but I figured that was completely related to the fact that he had a bunny bonding session, and he could still see the bunny, and still wanted to play with her. I covered up his cage and went to bed.
  
  He has had celery recently, which is a new addition to his diet. (I’m trying to find a treat both rabbits like enough to enjoy during bonding.) It wasn’t a whole stalk, just a third of it (the end with the parsley-looking bit.)
  
  Edit: He tried to jump onto his food area, and fell off. I then offered him a treat (banana chip, his favourite thing in the world), and he took it, ate it, and then asked me for another, so he’s acting about 80% normal.
- 01/23/2013 at 8:27 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Is there any chance the liquid was just dark urine? Is he litter trained? Urine can be colored orange or red, and often new owners think it’s blood in the urine, but it’s colored urine, usually colored from vegetables.
- 01/23/2013 at 10:55 PM
  peppypoo
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  The best signs to watch for in a bunny are changes in apetite, drinking, pooping, and activity level. If any of these are noticeably diminished, it is a cause for concern. Otherwise, as Kokaneeandkahlua mentioned, bunny urine does tend to vary in color due to changes in diet.
- 01/24/2013 at 5:24 AM
  Cooper
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  Yeah, it’s quite possible. He isn’t litter trained, despite my best intentions, but I hadn’t seen him urinate up by his food yet. And with a recent change in diet, it would make sense it would be his urine. This rabbit gives me so many scares. XD
  
  (The last time he was out on the porch where my Netherland Dwarf had spent all of her 9 years running without any problems. One of the neighbours used a backpack blower and spooked him. He freaked out, and decided rather than try to get inside, or out through the gate, he would take a third option and jump through the bars of the porch (something we thought he was too big to do.) He was fine, thank God, but I learned my lesson. He has a pen now on the ground with a box to hide in. Biggest scare I had with the Netherland was the day we had to put her down. She had stopped eating, drinking, and moving around. Poor thing had been so miserable.)
- 01/24/2013 at 11:15 AM
  Elrohwen
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  It is probably urine as that can appear orange or even red.
- 01/25/2013 at 10:07 AM
  Cupcakesmom
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  It sounds like a similar situation I just had with my Dizzie. She would leave little puddles of brownish liquid that were coming from her bum. I took her to the vet and he suggested that maybe she wasnt eating her cecotropes (because I was finding them all over), so her gut was “out of sorts.” so he recommended that I watch for them and dont throw them away when i find them. He said if that didnt work, to try some benebac which you can get at a pet store.
- 01/25/2013 at 10:24 AM
  Sam and Lady's Human
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  When Lady decides her house isn’t clean enough she’ll pee on the floor, its anywhere from orange to red depending on what they ate the night before, and if there are poops nearby they tend to dissolve in the pee and make a lovely red brown mucky mixture.
  But, ditto Peppy, watch for changes, and if you do see it actually coming from his bum then I would call a vet. And write on here again, because sometimes a simple diet change can help.
- 01/25/2013 at 10:29 PM
  BinkyBunny
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  I just wanted to add that celery is okay, offers hydration since it is fluid rich, but just be sure to cut the pieces in 1/2 to 1 inch pieces as the those stringy pieces in the celery is thought to cause issues unless you cut it up.
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