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- 10/23/2018 at 3:48 PM
  Caitlyn C
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  Ever since we’ve stopped giving Stanley pellets, he’s had much healthier looking stool. However he’s being pooping in a spot he doesn’t usually and my husband thinks they smell. They’re arent runny at all, the shape/look is better than before. His new love is oat hay. I know poop smells but google says his poop should be almost odorless. It isn’t like an awful smell, just a poop smell – don’t know how to explain it. He’s always sort of pooped wherever but maybe the increase in hay hs caused more stool.
  
  Like I said the concern is the smell. Is it awful if I can smell it?
- 10/23/2018 at 6:39 PM
  Wick & Fable
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  If I’m not mistaken, there are two types of normal poops. One is dry and odorless, and then there are ones with a “sheen” on them which have an odor. These poops are territorial poop, so my guess is they are purposely odored doe marking reasons. This seems plausible since it seems to be occuring in just one spot. Have you tried leaving just one poop there for a bit to see if that satiates him to not mark there again? I don’t know if this is a traditional method, but that’s what I did with Wick when he kept marking our new home.
  
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- 10/23/2018 at 7:22 PM
  Caitlyn C
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  When you say the dry and odorless ones – are those 100% odorless
- 10/23/2018 at 9:40 PM
  Wick & Fable
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  Technically not odorless I’m sure because it’s hard for anything to be odorless. But it doesn’t smell strongly at all.
  
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- 10/23/2018 at 10:15 PM
  Bunny House
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  Yeah, mine have the regular poops that don’t smell and then ones that do smell, they are still hard but it’s their territorial poops, and then there’s the cecetropes, which we all know are smelly!
  I agree with wick, it sounds like territorial poops.
- 10/24/2018 at 7:24 PM
  Coco
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  Lord, all that I am learning! I had the best bun for 9 years, never fixed, nails never trimmed, free range.
  Now I have a girl bun who gets into everything she can! Found out why she needed to be spayed. Had to have her nails cut after having her for 4 months.
  Why such differences?
- 10/24/2018 at 7:27 PM
  Coco
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  And my un fixed male bunny never left any special smelly poos
- 10/26/2018 at 1:14 PM
  FlemishDad
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  My rabbit’s poop varies from just detectable to moderately smelly depending on what he eats. Bell peppers are the biggest culprit with him. Most of the time it is not a problem but not completely odorless.
  
  Oats have some unusual sugars that can produce odors when fermented. I don’t know how much of them are in oat hay.
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