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- 03/06/2022 at 3:22 PM
  Bunnybutt
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  Hello!
  
  So my little guy has been behavior normally- playing, eating drinking pooping normally and then I noticed he left behind a little smudge of what appears to be diarrhea. He’s still acting pretty normally and he hasn’t gone again yet so I don’t know if he’ll do it again but is something I should be worries about? Does he need a vet asap?
  
  I appreciate any help I can get on this!
  
  Thank you!
- 03/06/2022 at 3:23 PM
  LBJ10
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  True diarrhea is rare. Since he has normal poops, I would think this is more likely a mushy cecotrope. How old is he? What is his diet like? It could be that something just caused an upset.
  - 03/06/2022 at 3:45 PM
    Bunnybutt
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    Hi! Thank you for the reply! So. He is a little less than a year old (he was a stray so the vet gave me a ball park age) his diet is almost entirely small pet select 2nd cutting timothy hay mixed with Oxbow timothy hay. Although I have been trying him out on small pet select 3rd cutting hay over the less couple of weeks, which he definitely prefers. He also gets spinach before bed time and an oxbow cookie. I was hoping he would poop more by now but he’s in nap mode. This the 1st time i’ve seen him have smidgy poop and some of it was in his fur around his butt which worried me.
- 03/06/2022 at 4:18 PM
  DanaNM
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  True diarrhea is liquid. I’m also guessing it was maybe a cecotrope that got smashed, or a soft cecotrope.
  
  Does he eat pellets? How much salad does he get?
  
  Also FYI, spinach is not good to feed every day due to high oxalate content. You can read about safe veggies and the ratio of high oxalate veggies that you can include here: https://binkybunny.com/bunnyinfo/veggie-list/
  
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  - 03/06/2022 at 5:14 PM
    Bunnybutt
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    He doesn’t like pellets unless theyre alfalfa so I kind of gave up on those once he was out of the baby stage and I found out he was so picky. When he gets his salad its usually about half a cup. I did for awhile try him out on Romaine and he wasn’t a fan, he does really like arugula though.
    
    And thank you for the link! That was really helpful 🙂
- 03/06/2022 at 5:25 PM
  DanaNM
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  Gotcha! I was just checking because sometimes too many pellets can cause some extra soft poops.
  
  Arugula is a great staple veg. My buns also love escarole/endive and bok choy. 🙂
  
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- 03/06/2022 at 7:14 PM
  LBJ10
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  If it were me, I would just watch him. It could have just been an isolated incident. If he keeps having poopy butt, then you may need to reevaluate his diet. Perhaps a veggie isn’t agreeing with him.
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