Bunny on a health kick?

[Tony's Mum]

Hey, I brought Tony to the vet for the first time the day before yesterday, and I’ve noticed he’s not eating normally since. He seems to be eating a bit more hay but he’s leaving behind about 1/5 of his veg and pellets, which isn’t like him. He’s pooping normally (actually they look a little bigger than normal but still healthy), and drinking plenty, and he’s just as active and leapy as ever, so I’m wondering should I be worried? 

He seems fine except for the leftover food, and as far as I can tell his hay box is emptier than usual, so I can’t tell if going to the vet’s has just put him on some kind of health kick (I don’t need pellets Mom, I’m really into an all natural diet right now), or if he’s just suddenly decided that his tissue box of hay is really interesting, or what… But it’s unlikely to be some kind of stress-induced stasis or anything, right?

As I type this he’s eaten a pineapple chunk and some pellets. So I’m thinking he’s probably okay?

[Bam]

Bigger poop and eating more hay is as a rule not a sign of ill health, certainly not stasis. With stasis, poop decrease in size and amount. Since it coincided with the vet visit, I’m thinking some kind of stress-response (albeit manifesting in a somewhat unusual way)?

Normally if a bun changes his eating habits and stops eating certain foods, you’d suspect a dental issue. But that’s generally seen together with reduced fecal output, because the bun eats less overall.

I’d wait and see. It’s not an emergency or anything seeing that his poop is actually bigger and you know he’s eating the hay.

Sometimes buns do things we can never understand. F ex my Bam drank from a water-bottle for three years, I could always hear him drink in the night. He had back-up water in a bowl. One day he decided he wasn’t going to drink from a bottle anymore. I still change the water and hang it up for him as a back-up, but he hasn’t touched the thing in more than 2 years.

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