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Sometimes bunnies do get sick of certain veggies, or they may get used to having them (food security) so they will eat more slowly (my Myra is like this with romaine… she always eats it eventually but doesn’t eat it as fast as her favorites).

Not eating can also be a symptom of a problem (tummy problems or a dental issue), but if he is eating…[Read more]

Hi mbp27! Rather than replying to an old thread, I recommend making a new topic of your own (click the [Create Topic] button on the top left when you are looking in a forum category, like HOUSE RABBIT Q&A). Since this is an old thread, I will lock it and you can start your own topic.

From hearing it, it might be just her “oinking” sound, though…[Read more]

Hello everyone! My rabbit (Cacau is from Brazil) is 9 years old and she’s very healthy. But in the last months she’s doing some strange noises when she’s licking her fur, eating or I’m petting her belly. She never did this before and the noise is getting louder and more frequent. We already took her twice to the vet but he doesn’t know what’s…[Read more]

That’s what my plan is to do but I’ll have to wait till the weather warms a bit. There’s an old desk in my room I’m getting rid of but with the snow and Covid it’s difficult to get a friend to come help me (father can’t because of his back). I’ve gotten a spray bottle for the cat, he’s gotten a hold of animals outside unfortunately which is the ma…[Read more]

Unfortunately if you’re in Australia I’m guessing a lot of vets really don’t treat rabbits so it might be hard to find a specialist. I’m not an expert on loss of sight but I want to reiterate what was said above that she would still be able to distinguish light and dark, shadows, movement. Rabbits don’t see the same way we do to begin with and I…[Read more]

Hi I don’t want to alarm you but it could well be EC. I didn’t have a rabbit savvy vet and he treated my bunny’s cataract without finding the cause. Sadly it turned out to be EC. I now travel a lot further to see a rabbit specialist vet so that anything serious will be detected. I hope things turn out better for your bun.

Oh good I’m glad to hear he gets time out. I have cats who like hunting and I was able to train them to be good with rabbits, but if the cat has been feral you’re good to be careful. Keep a spray bottle handy in case he sneaks his way into your room. As for play time, would you be able to put his cage into an exercise pen so he has a little more…[Read more]

Thanks for the response! His cage is 3 and a half feet in length but he has my whole room to roam and play around in which is about the size of your average living room. I let him out every morning and night for however long im here but if I leave I put him in.

Unfortunately I’m not able to let him free throughout our house because I’m wor…[Read more]

<p style=”padding-left: 40px;”>How cute! Keep in mind that bunnies can’t breathe through their mouths so it isn’t concerning that his mouth is closed. It looks like he’s behaving pretty normally to me.</p>
His cage does look too small though even if he’s a dwarf. It looks like he’s up on a table so I’m guessing he can’t just get out and play when…[Read more]

I’m also doing a trio but I have 2 bonded males and a solo female. I will tell you it’s been almost 2 years and I’ve taken a glacial pace for exactly this reason. My boys are so in love and I’m afraid of losing their bond. A few things from my experience that may or may not hold true for you…

1. Prebonding is a very good idea with integrating…[Read more]

Those stacking cups are the best! I don’t use them all the time so it stays novel but when the bunnies hear them, they start zooming! There are also small animal enrichment toys where you out the pellets in and they have to figure out how to get them out and that’s fun too. Basically any game you can make of feeding time is probably going to be a…[Read more]

My boy is very food motivated as well.. I also switch up how I give his pellets. I use baby stacking cups, snuffle mats, this one interactive toy where he has to lift the lids on the board for the pellets, and I made a treat dispenser (from this forum actually) by wrapping a toilet roll with a piece of paper, twisting the ends so it’s like a…[Read more]

Fur mites are common in rabbits, but its not something we do routine treatment to prevent. The bun as a rule gets the mites from the mother, and the mites then coexist with the bun, in numbers so low that they don’t cause any problem. The bun’s immune defense keeps the numbers low.

Young buns (and humans and dogs etc) don’t have a mature immune…[Read more]