Hmmm, I’m not sure… but rabbits do hide their symptoms so well that maybe? The other symptoms you describe sound like she is in some pain. Sounds like she could be having some gas pain? You could try giving her a tummy rub and simethicone to see if she perks up. If it is gas, moving around (and binkying) will help.

Has she completely stopped eating? Is she pooping?

Hmmm, usually with gas you see an improvement after a couple hours, not days. Less hay intake will definitely affect the poop. Do you think this might have been with this specific hay batch? Sometimes a batch of hay is off and buns will not like it. If you can, try to keep giving her the ones she gets excited about and see if that helps.

But if the hay is OK, it could be a dental problem (she might need a molar trim).  Molar spurs can cause the symptoms of pain and “picky” eating preferences.

If she ate one batch they it could still have just been the hay… but yes good to get the teeth checked to confirm!

Glad you found one that she will eat. Buns have such sensitive noses that sometimes I think they detect something wrong with a batch that we don’t notice.

Rabbits are so fragile if you explain the situation and your vet is pretty experienced with rabbits they’ll probably make time to see her! They can just go down hill so fast and hopefully they accommodate that!

It’s great to hear you’ll be getting teeth checked. Teeth problems cause a lot of hay-eating problems for so many rabbits, in addition to unattractive hay types, batches, etc…. if only the rabbits could tell us!

Rounding back to your original question, I will say that I believe rabbits can still binky if they are uncomfortable. This comes from the idea, from my experience, that not all binkys are done out of happiness. My Wick does not binky in happiness — he only binkies when he’s frustrated. While he’s never binkied during a bad gas episode, I can imagine that if a rabbit is only feeling slight discomfort, it may still be able to express itself (whatever emotion) through binkies, to an extent?

Glad she got her trim! Be sure to give her Critical Care is she isn’t eating on her own, and its ok to off extras of her favorite veggies at this time to entice her to eat. 🙂

If the poops continue to stay small, then I would be on alert. Sometimes poop may normally become a bit small, especially if we know the rabbit is ingesting more fur than usual due to a heavy shed.

Do you find she’s eating a lot of hay now, a week following the procedure?

Maybe she’s still a little sore from the trim? Can you get a refill from the vet? At least the gas drops seem to be helping a little.

Are the gas drops the meds the vet gave you? Simethicone is a very common, over the counter baby gas drop medication that is safe for rabbits to use, and I think the large majority of rabbit owners have it on hand for gas episodes! If you found gas drops helped, you can purchase/order it and administer it orally yourself to your rabbit. It is not a harmful medication at all and the rabbit can’t overdose on it or anything. Both my rabbits love it and I always give them some if I think there’s something up with them.

It’s great that she’s agreeable to your tummy rubs! Those can be really helpful. Also keeping the rabbit moving can be helpful too, even though sometimes it’s the last thing they want (similar to how we hate moving when we are gassy, but in the end it usually helps). I recall my Wick’s worst gas episode where he stopped eating, and every time I nudged him to move, he would poop, haha. It was so instantaneous and constant, while also providing relief that his GI was still working somewhat.

I wonder if the gas may be something separate from the teeth. It can be easy to link together things that happen in proximity, so sometimes I like to pause and think of symptoms in isolation. Is there anything new you gave your rabbit or something that changed which might have caused gas, outside the recent dental?