I’ve been having a lot of problems with my rabbit, Dumbo, regarding his lazing around on a cold floor and a general hatred towards carpets. When we adopted him 4 years ago, he would be out for 8-9 hours without a problem, but recently, whenever he’s out for a longer time (2-3 hours), he easily gets sneezing fits or diarrhea. We excluded his diet when we made him stay in his cage for a week and his poop was perfectly fine every single day. But, as soon as we let him out, he lazed around on the floor, moving every so often when his spot would get warm, and he got diarrhea pretty quickly.

I placed him back in his cage and made sure he had both enough of hay and pellets, and in a matter of a few hours, his poop was fine again. Before anyone says it could be caecals, his poop is completely formless – it’s not soft drops, just lumps of really watery poop. 

I tried bribing him with sweets to at least sit on a carpet, but he’s really unwilling to step on it. I’m slowly getting desperate because he gets sneezing fits too, and then I add extra bedding into his cage to make it warmer and place him inside for a day or two, letting him out for 10-20 min at a time, until he get’s better. More than that could cause him another sneezing fit or diarrhea, and it always seems to help him relieve him of the problem.

Surprisingly, it doesn’t really seem to affect him or his behavior much, if at all – he eats, drink, and pees normally. Whenever someone walks around, he jumps (unless he sleepy really hard), and starts running madly after that person. It’s the fact that he gets it so often that worries me. My vet isn’t a bunny specialist (I don’t know if there are even any in Croatia), so when I ask her something regarding him, she doesn’t really know how to reply. 

Does anyone know if his diarrhea is truly caused by being too much on a cold floor, as it’s really difficult to get him to move sometimes (he’s not one to play by himself and then just sleeps all over the place), or could it be some serious medical problem?