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Honestly i’m not too sure, my vet doesn’t seem very knowledgeable on rabbits. I know they do get rabbits but i’m not sure to what extent they’re knowledgeable. The fact that they don’t want to treat Winnie on suspicion is what rubs me the wrong way. Today i’m finally going to pick up the panacur to start the 28 days, and they’ve reminded me…[Read more]

In my experience, rabbits become more attached to the person who gives them meds, not less – even if the experience with the meds is very unpleasant. There can be individual exceptions to this of course.

The idea you had with applying the gel on the other’s buns head could perhaps work, esp if you mix it with a tiny little bit of mashed banana?…[Read more]

I agree. This sounds like hormone-driven behavior. If he isn’t neutered, then I would consider this normal. Something probably triggered him to start trying to claim you and your bed. This can happen for seemingly no reason, but I’m sure there is probably something going on in their little bunny brain. Has anything changed in your house? New…[Read more]

Oh yes, I had a bun that did that! He’d relax so completely, especially in my mum’s lap. And then he’d just pee 😄

Aww. I had a bun who’d pee on me when he got “too comfortable” in my arms, just as when he got nice and comfortable in his soft bed.

Took me nearly an hour to administer just two meds to her. I just smeared probiotic gel on her mouth chin area a tiny bit at a time… That little head goes this way, that way, swoosh swoosh quickly, smack me in head several times. And quick jumps up my chest that I have to dodge.

She does not like burrito. She isn’t squirmy at all normally and…[Read more]

Thank you. First one seems like a very good thing to have on hand for emergencies.

He is not peeing on you because he’s mad at you. When a bun pees on the human it is a form of courtship or claiming. The frenzied digging is connected to this, the peeing is not bc he’s angry.

Is your rabbit neutered? Sexually driven behaviors can occur in neutered animals as well as in intact individuals, but in an intact rabbit the behaviors…[Read more]

Hey, when my bunny was needing to take medication he really didn’t want the vet tech showed me a technique to make it easier to give him his (liquid) medicines. He told me to put Benjamin into a bunny burrito (wrap him in a towel snugly) and put my index finger under his chin and lift his head up. Be sure that you’re lifting the bunny’s head by…[Read more]

I use 2 kinds because one comes as a fluid replacement powder and has a strain of saccharomyces cerevisiae. I only use that one for sick bunnies. Here’s the ingredients list:

The other one I have has enterococcus faecium. It’s a bacterium that is found in the gut of healthy rabbits, but the capsules I can get are for dogs and cats. There’s no…[Read more]

May I ask why you have two different ones but same form? I only have two because they were different forms. Just wondering if I need to pay attention to different strains / use different ones for different purposes. All the times I’ve been instructed to use probiotics vets never said anything more than that.

Yeah, if it’s just powdered probiotics, you can just mix with water.

I mix rabbit probiotics with water, both types I use come in the form of  powder.

I agree it’s very difficult when you cant bribe a bun. Bribery is probably  the most useful tool a rabbit caretaker has!

I did not realize she would be so difficult so I didn’t ask for any alternatives. It’s probiotics that I have to give (since on antibiotics), which I have both in powder and gel forms. Human probiotic powder can be mixed with water so maybe I can try that.

Even giving her the liquid antibiotics was harder than any bun before because she very…[Read more]