Hi All

I tried to post last night but I am not sure what I was doing wrong …  you all helped me out a while back when I was having diet issues with my new bunny which I took over from someone in my neighborhood and after the awesome advice in here, I got it all sorted out, thank you.

We just arrived back from a 12 day trip away, a friend watched our bunny for us, he is a 3 year old Holland Lop.  When we left him he was in great shape, I left our friends with instructions on diet and how to clean his cage and how to handle play time etc. all easy instructions which I thought they would follow and I am sure they did but on the first day they had him, I got a photo from them where they had his on the grass in their back yard, I am not sure our bunny had ever been outside on the grass, they didn’t leave him out there long, only while they were cleaning his cage and I didn’t think much of it at all only how it may have been strange for him.  I asked them if he ate the grass and they said no.

So Monday night we arrived back and my daughter quickly picked him up to give him some love and we noticed that his legs, feet and the butt area of his undercarriage was wet and he looked scruffy but they said the water had leaked and it was from that.  Because it was late I didn’t think anything of it till yesterday …

He was potty trained to go in his litter box before we left, he only peed in his litter box and you would find the occasional poop somewhere else in his cage but he was very clean with it all.  But yesterday there was poop all over his cage even in the area he sleeps where there is never poop plus he had peed in two different places in the cage, I let him out, cleaned the cage and then watched over the next few hours and again he was peeing in his littler box but also peed elsewhere in his cage, also when I let him out the cage he pooped a bunch all over the show which he never really does, his poop was not soft, poop seemed normal.

When my husband came home I asked him to take a look, Brody was still very wet underneath and it looked like he had lost a lot of hair on his legs, the rest of him seemed normal, his skin on the undercarriage, just by his man parts and his left and all seemed red and his man parts seemed bigger than normal, I was worried he had something down there that was itching him so we rinsed off that area with warm water and dried him off and then we went to bed.

This morning he looks the same as last night and still seems to be down there cleaning and I think biting a lot, he is also drinking way more water than normal.

I have no clue what I am dealing with but hope he is not in pain, I don’t know what to do, he still acts pretty normal when I let him out so he isn’t lacking energy or anything and seems to be eating normally, I don’t know what to do ?  Is there something I should be putting on that area to help ease the itch ?  Should I be washing it off or is that doing more harm ?

I didn’t want to ask my friend how often they let him outside but could he be allergic to the grass, I am pretty sure they did nothing else different ?  OMG I was googling a bunch last night I pray it’s not flystrike which I came across, I looked carefully this morning and cannot see anything weird or abnormal on him but I am worried.  If you have any advice for me, I would appreciate it, thank you.