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Hope you and your buns are hanging in there @DanaNM!

a bag crinkling in the kitchen, me eating a snack, playing tubes together. We call it penguining because he tries to walk too and it’s sort of a waddle.

Thanks Bam! I did end up doing some research and saw humans could eat them and make a tea out of the leaves, so was wondering about my original info that they were bad for buns. This will make life much easier when summer hits and it’s chasing bun chasing leaves 😀 . Dorian isn’t a big stick chewer, so he probably won’t even be interested… he…[Read more]

I was thinking the same, though they get restless in the small space after a while so may not be able to increase to more than an hour, maybe hour and a half.  I do agree since it seems to be working just keep it up and feel out when they are ready to move on!

That is sounding like a huge improvement! I would just keep doing exactly what you have been! I think you’ll have a good sense of when they are ready for the next step. No harm in taking things slowly. I’d probably increase the length of sessions before moving to a new spot.

So far nothing jinxed! I’m still only doing 30-50 min in the small ottoman. It seems like they are improving at a snails pace.. Maxwell has groomed Ruby 3 out of the last 4 sessions I believe, and he will for a pretty long time. She doesn’t groom him much, but there is a little cuddling too.  Yesterday after he groomed her a long time she still…[Read more]

I’m glad he’s improved a bit again.

Another thing you might try (run by your vet of course) are dried greens and herbs. Some bunnies cannot tolerate fresh greens, but do well with dried greens. You can get dried dandelion and some other greens online, and many people will dried herbs and veggies themselves for their bunnies. Some bunnies also…[Read more]

I agree DanaNM. He is eating a very good amount of hay. His poop is formed but soft and water is leaking where he sits.

I have had him on only hay for 48 hours, still had soft stool but there was an improvement,  and then I saw he got a little lethargic and I reintroduced critical care. Otherwise, he is ok, not very playful but active and…[Read more]

Perfect, thank you very much ! ❤️

I have much the same experience as Dana, the buns I’ve had that needed scent gland cleaning have been elderbuns.

It might very well be that your bun’s scent glands are pristine, sunce she is young and agile. It’s still good to add them to the routine once-over check list.

Thank you very much !!

Awww perfect you calmed me down a lot now 🙂 thank you very much !!

I’ve only ever had to do them on my senior bun that was a larger breed and was having trouble reaching them once she started having some arthritis. Even in her case, I only ever had to do them a couple times. I noticed she was getting a little smelly, but they didn’t seem to be causing her any discomfort. My other senior is soooo squirrelly during…[Read more]

That’s great you were able to see a trusted vet! It makes a world of difference. And a pain-related cause makes perfect sense with her symptoms. Hopefully she will start improving with better pain management.

Thank you for this update! I’m glad you have a great rabbit vet!

It sounds promising that you have found a possible root cause for this. Rabbits are sensitive to pain. The fact that her behaviour changes as the pain meds wear off is a pretty solid indication that there is a pain problem. Luckily rabbits do very well on meloxicam even for longer term use.

Ahh okay I wanted to know if every bunny needs cleaning as this is not a common topic in bunny world as I haven’t seen many questions about that.

Yep, i have seen the video already 🙂 okay so then I will check my rabbits glands in two weeks when I trim her nails.

Can it be uncomfortable for her If there is a built up in her scent glands? She…[Read more]

I think it can wait 2 weeks. Some buns never need their scent glands cleaned, some need them cleaned now and again. It’s not difficult, but its easiest if someone can hold the bun while you do the cleaning.

Perhaps you’ve already seen this HowCast video with Mary S Cotter, but in case you havent, here is the…[Read more]