That is rather odd. Was it a different brand of lettuce or one that was pre-washed that you didn’t wash at home? Im just wondering if there was something on it that caused a bit of a reaction in them both.

By “in between bites” do you mean that they were doing it while they were chewing still, or afterward? If a piece of veggie is larger than usual, when Luna first grabs it she does a little head motion while moving her tongue to help get the whole piece in her mouth. But she doesn’t have head movements after she gets the whole piece in her mouth or when she’s done chewing.

First of all, adorable! Second, I didn’t see anything abnormal – when Cinnabunn opened his mouth twice it looked like it was because he was trying to grab his next bite of lettuce and missed because you can see the lettuce move out of his reach a little bit when he goes to nibble on it .

Have you tried other veggies to see if they still do it, or maybe it’s just with romaine or that romaine specifically?

It looks like just getting momentum to re-arrange a piece of lettuce in the innards of their mouths. Wick turns his head and some times his body to achieve this, rather than cocking his head like that. Rabbits have really inconveniently positioned teeth in my opinion… some times Wick has a piece of hay in his mouth and he struggles to start actually chewing on it because it’s in the gap between his molars and front teeth, so he just tries to rotate himself until he gets leverage from a nearby object to bend the hay into his molars/front teeth, haha.

Cut the romaine into small pieces and see if this still occurs.

I thought it looked like a gag reflex. Strange that you’d see both do it on same occasion though! A coincidence? Or have you seen each do it several times?
Do they do it when picking their greens up from the floor?

They can gag, but not vomit. At least, I call it gagging.. I see one of mine do it after drinking.

Would it be worth buying another head of romaine and seeing if it still happens? It’s so strange!

*bump*

Im curious to know if you’re still seeing this??!

ETA: About a month ago, I got 2 bloodblister suddenly pop up inside my cheek. Id had this happen before directly after eating something with seasoned salt – the seasoning must have contained something I reacted to.  But in this instance, the most recent thing Id eaten was a piece of unpeeled carrot. It got me thinking maybe there was something in the skin I reacted to. Pesticides perhaps? 

It makes me wonder if there was some residual pesticide on the lettuce??

So weird!