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They make heated water bowls. You would just need to protect the cable from getting chewed.

little update: he is eating hay like crazy and running around, he just pooped and peed and the poops looked really great! I think brushing him this afternoon really made a huge difference!

He is still eating tons of hay, drinking water, and acting fine, so I assume that’s a good sign? I got a ton of fur off of him today and he looks so much better and his coat looks thinner and shorter, I will continue with that tomorrow. His poops have seemed to improve over the last few days, so I’m hoping that he will be okay while I’m gone,…[Read more]

thank you!! She will be checking on him in the morning and at night and refreshing his hay and water each time. I told her to keep an eye on his poops, I’m just hoping that I can get him on track before I leave. Right now he is acting totally normal, just the abnormal poops that are strung together. I got a good amount of fur off of him in t…[Read more]

A big molt can definitely cause GI distress — it is fortunate it didn’t accumulate into a true blockage. Grooming is very important when your rabbit is molting. Definitely try your best in grooming before you leave; however, note that molting happens in phases of “releasing”, so it may happen that the 4 days you’re gone is when his coat decides…[Read more]

Id have his teeth looked into, unless you have. A proper dental exam during full anesthesia plus dental x-rays. If a bun cant chew properly it cant make proper use of the food it eats and it cant eat as much as it needs due to dental or jaw pain.

There are more sinister causes for drastic weight loss, and a full blood panel might give insights…[Read more]

Yes, if your rabbit lost that much weight, you should definitely see a vet. But something nobody has  mentioned yet is feeding a little bit of oats to help gain weight. Don’t give very much, because that is unhealthy. That is NOT a replacement for vet care, but it could help your bun gain weight.

Okay I’m 99% sure now that he is just shedding and took in too much hair. He is acting totally fine, but grooming himself a lot, so I just gave him a really good brushing with my favorite comb and I got a TON of hair off of him, so I think he was just starting to molt and I didn’t recognize it because it was coming from his undercoat (I feel so…[Read more]

Thank you for your advice! Freddie was adopted, and his records say he is male and neutered (forgot that spayed is for females!). Hummus I’m sure is a male because I got him as a baby from a friend who had a litter, and took him to the vet myself to get him neutered. However, even though I didn’t bond the two of them until Hummus was old enough…[Read more]

Update: just got home from shopping and he was asleep in his cardboard box, he came out to say hello and did a big yawn and stretch. He ate a few small pieces of treat and now he’s running around and playing. He is definitely shedding, but I didn’t notice it the other day, so that could definitely be contributing.

Well I spoke too soon, they escaped from my barrier when I went out of the room, so they found more of their stuff I put in the other room and now are running back and forth together.. phew.

I’m trying to add a picture of what his litter box looked like this morning, but for some reason it won’t let me.

When he was at the teaching hospital for stasis back in August, they did full X-rays and lab work and both were normal, so I know that there isn’t an underlying medical issue. It seems that every time I freak myself out about this, he just corrects it and ends up just fine. I guess bunnies can go through phases just like humans do, where t…[Read more]

He gets 1 tbsp. of Oxbow Adult Timothy Pellets in the morning and 1 tbsp. in the evening. He used to get unlimited pellets, but I think that contributed to the stasis back in August, so I cut back. He probably gets about 1 of the Oxbow treats per day (I cut them up into pieces) but they are quite large. He also gets unlimited Oxbow Timothy Hay. At…[Read more]

Thank you and thanks for all your help along the way!!! I did not expect this to be a 3 month journey 🙂

Their room is decent sized, but at least they won’t be roaming the hall or getting the chance to go under my futon just yet. I might let them out later tonight depending on how they do.. but so far so good! I got them back to the permanent…[Read more]

It’s good to be vigilant, and I think the poops you noticed were worth paying attention to!

How many treats does he get per day, and how many pellets? It could just be that he’s getting a bit too many, which is keeping him from eating enough hay. Perhaps it’s not that he’s adjusting to you, but that you’ve been so excited to see him…[Read more]

This morning I had a great litter box full of poop and he came running out of his cardboard box for his morning treat, so I may just be overthinking this. There have been multiple days that he has just slept all day and didn’t poop until 9 or 10 pm. I flipped out and thought something was wrong, but he ends up eventually popping every time. M…[Read more]

He hasn’t eaten any new treats, veggies, etc. but I have been giving him more treats (Oxbow Simple Rewards), so maybe that is the cause. I’m also trying to adjust the amount of pellets that he is eating to see if that will help. I did just get home from college a few weeks ago, so maybe he’s still adjusting to me being home? He just had his annua…[Read more]