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I have a few thoughts and I’m sure the members with more extensive rabbit experience will have great advice too. Firstly, no alfalfa. It’s fine for baby bunnies but not adults. It has too much protein and is a legume. She needs grass hay. That said, I don’t think a handful of grass a day is harmful. In the wild they would be eating more fresh…[Read more]

I have had this problem before too. About a year or so ago we bought a giant 10 kg bag of selective pellets and a few months down the line found the same issue and had to throw it all away.

I can’t remember the name of these insects but they are common pantry pests that breed like crazy and can infest your human food too if not caught quickly.…[Read more]

Aww poor Apollo. He’s such a cutie in that video by the way.

Nellie recently had a dental and Glenn had a dental about a year ago and if I am being honest neither of them displayed the symptoms that Apollo is showing in the vid, except for drooling, I agree that drooling is pretty characteristic of dental problems. The last time I was at the vet…[Read more]

I would feed singular pellets at a time — he may be going in with the healthy teeth gusto but his bite actually isn’t matching so he suffers as a result. For example, Fable vacuums up several pellets at a time, similar to what he did in the video, before/while fully chewing and swallowing. In contrast, Wick with his malocclusion only eats pellets…[Read more]

I tried to salvage the video from your link, but it was audio-only, sorry!

If you suspect the bag was contaminated when you purchased it, I’d take photos and contact customer service for a refund. I would not continue feeding any pellets from this bag.

Thankyou, I’m eagerly awaiting the chance to ring the vet tomorrow morning. I’ve just fed their evening pellets and he had a really bad pain response tonight (after none last night).

I recorded a video and uploaded it as an unlisted youtube video so I could share it with you (it was too big for me to upload direct to BB). The part that confuses…[Read more]

That’s great! Hopefully you’ll never need a vet in the middle of the night, but it’s really that there is one!

Gas pain can be symptomatic from one hour to the next.

One very important home remedy is to make the bun move around. Dont let it go into hiding, thinking that things will be better with a bit of rest. Block off access to any hiding…[Read more]

Min-Min throws himself into his flops. Sometimes he throws himself so hard he rolls 360 degrees (back onto his paws) . Then he seems stunned and offended he rolled all the way over (he wanted to either perfectly land on his back (180 degrees) or go slightly over where his paws flare out to almost bring him back to his feet but not quite (270 degrees).

Ah yes, I can see that it can be uncomfortable for her paws. A 2 cm layer of hay also protects against contact with the urine.

Rabbit urine is nasty concentrated stuff: my boyfriend’s first bunny peed her way through the steel bottom of her hutch over the course of 5 years.

The ammonia in the urine irritates the skin and can cause painful…[Read more]

LOL! They don’t show their butts… they sit there and just stare at you, you can feel their eyes in the other room! Two bunnies in unison just following every move with their eyes, like a pair of haunted house portraits!

That thread sounds amazing! Wish I could post photos as I would share the one of Dorian’s butt. Right now his molt just…[Read more]

Oh just found an emergency vet that specializes in exotic pets only 1/2 hour away! Bookmarked as 3am is not the time to be trying to google that. (Hopefully someone else reading this can learn from in retrospect seems like an obvious thing to do!) In my defense I had been told another closer emergency vet had a rabbit vet, but turns out that is no…[Read more]

Thanks @LBJ10 .That is good to know, when I was panic reading articles while she was having her incident I was worried it was much more common. Most of the things said you could tell apart by one being gradual and the other being immediate, which since she was fine and then not fine had me really worried. Though having read up more, she did do…[Read more]

Glad that I may be able to help you for once Dana! ^_^

We had to do a complete overhaul of the living room to welcome Owen and Molly. When we first clipped Molly’s nails we saw that she was getting sore hocks as well: hair loss and dark pink skin.

We have bought 1 large rug and several small rugs from IKEA. Even though they’re synthetic they…[Read more]

She’s spayed, but it’s just the litter. Maybe I can try to do hay over it

Yes, true bloat is rare. The stomach will rapidly fill with gas and become distended. The stomach will actually start putting pressure on other organs and major blood vessels. This is why bloat is so deadly. Bloat should not be confused with gas pain (which can lead to stasis). This is a much more common condition. As Bam said, there is a lot of…[Read more]