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Yes, spacing his meals and offering different hay helped for us too.

Sometimes he doesn’t eat much hay during the day, then we postpone his dinner half an hour to an hour, so he starts to eat a lot of hay. I’m sure everybunny would be seriously offended if they knew about this strategy…

We experimented with types of hay too and found out he…[Read more]

In my experience with both my rabbits, baytril made their urine orange over time!

It sounds very good! With things like a UTI, its often difficult to see when the abx take effect – it can be effeciacious in killing the bacteria just as it should, but there can still be some lingering irritation, which just needs time to heal. (Much like when we can cough for a long time after a chest cold, even though the causative virus or…[Read more]

Hi, I don’t notify folks if I use their pix usually. Thanks for continuing to respond. I haven’t been using the forums to select pix since the website was rebuilt over the last year or so, but it may be a good time to start again. If so, we can have a pix post in the Lounge. I think I’ll ask that you state in your post if binkybunny can use it.…[Read more]

I have those feelings as well, and it was more pronounced with my first bunny who lost the use of his back legs for about a year before he passed. We had new rituals of care that made him comfortable but it’s hard, and I often check on breathing (ie wake up Spike when he’s resting in his tent). These feelings are natural.

I guess one thing I’ve…[Read more]

Hi again, it’s been a week and despite saying I had a feeling small space bonding for Betty and Herman was perhaps a problem, I tried it again.

Here’s the reason and the outcome:

Last week I had a phone call with a volunteer from a rabbit shelter. They advised me to stick with the small space, they have a high success rate with it. However, they…[Read more]

Wonderful discovery, thank you for the warning! Many rabbits cope well with calcium-rich greens, but others don’t – and it’s of course especially important to be extra vigilant with buns who are getting on a bit in years ☺

Myb bun Bam was forbidden calcium- rich greens by his rabbit vet, due to high blood calcium. We barely ever get carrot tops…[Read more]

Thanks guys for these responses. Things have gotten a little better. Hotot – I’m sorry to hear about your health experience, and I hope you’ve fully recovered. I think you might be spot on with your suggestion. Over the last few days I’ve realized this might be an olfactory issue I’m dealing with, related to some GI issues I deal with. It happened…[Read more]

Another update:

Bunbun has been much more himself today! Last night after I posted he ran straight to his greens and ate them, but still seemed to feel crummy off and on. Tonight he avoided his greens for ~10 minutes, then ate them all up. He was also much more snuggly and didn’t seem to be as miserable as he’s been. He’s not spending as much t…[Read more]

Have you had covid-19? Menopause? This sounds like an olfactory issue to me. Or, a cat lived in your home previously and the cleaning is reactivating the odor. One of the lasting effects of covid-19 for me has been olfactory hallucination.  I lost my sense of smell and taste. It wasn’t so bad since menopause has made me extremely sensitive to…[Read more]

I saw you had posted elsewhere on the forum, so I figured I should check the chat thread. I haven’t been doing a very good job checking the chat threads lately. 🙁  Welcome back Ellie! It’s nice to see you!