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- 07/17/2017 at 9:44 PM
  DutchhMunn
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  I don’t have money to take him to the vet and it makes me very upset ? But about a week ago DutchMunns pee changed to a dark red orangeish color, I red that it was normal as long as it wasn’t swirls of red, indicating blood. So I just removed romaine/green leaf lettuce from his diet. His daily diet was a small handful of pellets in the morning, most nights he would get a cup-1 1/2 cups of romaine or green leaf lettuce and hay and water 24/7. But today I notice his urine has turned to almost sludge, kinda lighter than honey mustard, but it also looked mixed in with more red pee. I called some vets and their advice was to remove everything from his diet and just give him hay and water and put a few drops of cranberry juice in his water.
  Is that what I should do? Is diet cranberry juice fine or no? (It’s all we could get when we ran to Walmart) if anything what else should I do? I wanna take him to the vet so badly but we have less than 200$ for the next 3 weeks.
  The vet who said to just give him hay and water and only that said to bring him in if it doesn’t change in the next 3 days, but I can’t and I don’t know what to do… I’m so worried. I also forgot that his poop and activity levels and at the way he acts have not changed just his pee
- 07/18/2017 at 5:20 PM
  Bam
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  Red pee is perfectly normal and just something that rabbits produce sometimes. It can be from plants or it can happen spontaneously (for no known reason).
  
  if there’s blood in pee you can find out by dripping hydrogen peroxide on the pee spot. If it foams, it’s blood. If it doesn’t foam, it’s not blood. Forum leader erseygirl has tested this with her bunnies, and it works.
  
  Cranberry juice is often recommended for urinary issues. You can use diet juice because its only a few drops. Read on the package, if the sweetener is sucralose (aspartame) or sodium saccharine, a few drops won’t hurt. We have members who have used cranberry successfully.
  
  It’s very important that your bunny drinks water so he rinses out his bladder properly. Give him two bowls, one with plain water and one with cranberry water. Some buns wont drink at all if their water tastes differently.
  
  Is he a good hay eater? If you cut out all other food, you must make sure he’s eating his hay. Some buns stop eating instead of trying the hay, and a bunny mustn’t go with an empty stomach for more than 6 hours max. Also if the bun only eats hay it’s extra important it drinks lots.
  
  I have a friend who’s bun got a bout of sludge, that resolved itself in a couple of days. She was told to cut back on pellets and give more vegs. This was because vegs have so much fluid. Lettuce is good for example, kale should be avoided due to too high calcium content. Cilantro is good.
  
  It’s absolutely great that his poop and activity level etc are normal.
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