Reply To: Aging and sensitivities

[GlennTheLionhead]

Hey. I had another question and thought I’d ask here as its very related to the topic title but about Nellie… As you can see from previous she had a good health check with an exotics specialist who suggested both Glenn and Nellie were in very nice health for their age (no xrays or ultrasounds Ofcourse) Nellie is around 9 or 10, she does show her age a little and has arthritis medicated with one dose of daily meloxicom. I’ve notice as of recent months she’s sleeping more. She spends noticeably more time sleeping in hides than Glenn does, usually loafed. Not every day, sometimes she has very active days and is usually always bright and active in the morning but now in the evening she retreats to her hide periodically through the evening for 2 – 4 hours while Glenn his enjoying his ‘day’, still comes out and eats and runs excited for carrot tops but then back to sleep she goes. She does sometimes look a bit stiff and if it’s before 8 pm she might refuse to come out but will still eat food brought to her.

I will say around 10 pm she is usually alert and active for a few hours and flops relaxed in the open and again it’s not every night, but occasionally.

Side note – she gets meds at 7 pm so I would usually expect any potential lingering pain to be gone by 8/9 pm.

Is this normal aging do you think? I don’t have previous experience of aging rabbits. Thanks.