He’s so cute!
I think it’s weird that the vet wants him to weigh less than he did as a tiny fluff ball. He doesnt look ft to me in the pictures. Bam is 2 kg now (2007 g last Tuesday) and there’s still some fat under his chin, but his vet says he’s a good weight now.

I have never heard about hard cellulite like abdominal fat in rabbits. I felt Bam’s tum now, but no hard cellulite-like fat. They can get fat around their inner organs just like humans can, but I don’t think you really see or feel that from the outside. A human can be quite fat on the inside and still look slim. It’s thought to have a lot to do with epigenetic markers and a little less to do with environmental factors. I’m sure you know all this though.

As a rule hard fat isn’t good, fluffy subcutaneous fat is better from a health perspective. You could perhaps ask if your vet means the hard fat is something like what humans can get, hard fat around the inner organs, the kind of fat that can lead to high blood pressure and type II diabetes (metabolic syndrome) in humans. Sometimes vets don’t explain things because they feel like they have to start with the very basics of biology and there just isn’t time for that and there’s a gazillion things the patient can misinterpret along the way.

Or maybe, perhaps most likely, the vet didn’t know and and felt he needed some time to think about it.

Theo really is seriously adorable.