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FORUM DIET & CARE HELP!! Urine Sludge at the bottom of litter box??

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    • Alfie and Ellie
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        My 1 year old bunny, Alfie, has been urinating some thick pee lately. He uses his litter
        box to urinate, and whenever I clean his box, there is some sort of creamy urine at the very bottom.
        I noticed it about 4-5 months ago but never thought too hard on it. It’s always there when I clean his litter box and it lately has been bothering me.

        What I can tell you guys is that Alfie appears to be very healthy.
        His diet is clean and fresh. I feed him Sherwood Forest Adult Rabbit Food,
        along with organic Timothy hay and sometimes some organic fresh parsley (but usually only 4 stems 3-5x a week)

        He is outside “grounding, or earthing” for 30 minutes 1-2 times a day.
        He poops a whole lot and regularly urinates. And, he eats and drinks just fine!

        I don’t know what could be wrong, or if anything is. I just want my sweet bunny to be healthy.
        Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.

        – Ellie


      • Dface
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          IF in doubt yoy should really go to the vet and get him checked, bladder sludge is very painful for a bunny

          Another thought is that rabbits do not have the same pee consistency as other animals, especially if they are using it to mark things and in some situations it is entirely normal to pass calcium through it – so you can get chalky pee, or high sediment pee, this is not the same as bladder sludge, which is a far more serious version

          http://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Bladder_sludge_and_stones

          This page might be of some use to you!


        • Bam
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            DFace has given you a good link, here’s another one with pictures of both sludge and normal pee with chalky residue:
            http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Uro_gen_diseases/generalities/Sludge.htm

            It is normal for rabbits to expel surplus calcium via the kidneys. It’s a peculiarity of the specis – most other mammals get rid of excess calcium with the feces. If your bun has chalky pee often, so chalky that it resembles paint when it dries, you should see over his diet. The food he is getting sounds good, but all buns are different and parsley is a high calcium veg. It could perhaps be rotated with cilantro or dill.


          • kurottabun
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              Dittoing what the others have said. You could try rotating the parsley with other vegetables and observe if the pee is still chalky. Alfie’s system might’ve been able to take all the extra calcium when he was younger but since he’s a year old now, there may be an excess that he flushes out through the pee.


            • Alfie and Ellie
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                Thanks guys for all the help!

                @KurottaBun, that makes a lot of sense.
                I will try laying off the parsley for now. I’m also going to try putting some newspaper under his litter box.

                I really hope this helps. And if it doesn’t, I will be making a vet appt. I love him to death and wouldn’t bare if something happened! I know you all probably feel the same about your buns, too.

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