Thanks, sure.
There’s a large litter box in front of a big hay box, she spends a fair amount of time chilling there each day, eating timothy hay. She has access to a chew log a few times per week. The vet has checked her teeth, but possibly not recently, I wasn’t in the room for a couple visits. But I would think she would. I’m going to start watching her hay habits a little closer to make sure her routine hasn’t changed.
Diet includes timothy hay, a few varieties of pellets in small amounts, kale, spring mix, broccoli, collars, turnip, mustard, romaine, green leaf, not all at once, but kind of on rotations. chew log. This has been the diet since I got her almost 6 years ago now. She’s had bouts of UTI, vet doesn’t think that’s it this time though. She’s had stasis a couple of times, once after losing her first partner.
On the weekdays, I go clean their room and feed them some kale in the morning. They (have 2 rabbits), then they run around their room, chew cardboard, chill in the litterbox, and around 11-12, get situated in a cubby or find a spot to start napping. This lasts until early evening, when I go down and open their gate so they can come into the rest of the house if they want. Usually the rabbit who is having this problem comes out right away, begs for ‘treat’ whenever I’m on my feet, and has recently started trying to chew and pull up carpet when she doesn’t get fed something, for unknown reasons, and sometimes just to mess with me, given her head shake and darting off when I go to stop her.
Around 10 PM, I usher them back into their room.
Her behavior seems less excited and happy than it used to be. She still is playful sometimes, but she used to flop a lot more. It hasn’t ceased entirely (she tends to roll all the way over and scares me cause she’s just very careless about where she’s doing it), but it’s just not as frequent.
The carpet chewing did make me think of potential dental stuff, maybe there’s pain there we can’t detect, but how would we dig deeper to find out?
.
