Diarrhea

[CocoaPuff123]

I just adopted my newest rabbit Nico a few days ago. I woke up this morning and saw diarrhea in his cage. His foster mom said she fed him oxbow pellets, which I also feed. I gave him pellets from my bag last night, as the pellets his foster mom gave me ran out. They looked a little different than my bag, but I didn’t think anything of it. Could this have been the cause? I also gave him green leaf lettuce last night for the first time since I’ve had him. Could that have anything to do with it? He seems to be acting normal now. I’m just concerned.

[12345ABCDE]

True diarrhea needs urgent vet care.

[Bam]

You need to differentiate between true diarrhea and sticky poop. As Sarah says, true diarrhea is a vet emergency. When a bun has true diarrhea, it produces no other type of poop, i.e. Non of the normal round poop. The diarrhea is often ample, watery or mucos-y. The bun becomes very weak very fast, looks miserable, doesn’t eat and needs instant vet attention.

Sticky poop is sth else. It’s not avet emergency. It’s often seen when a bun has had a change of diet. There are round poops as well as smeary poop. The bun acts normal and eats and drinks.

Sticky poop is dealt with by making dietary adjustments. You want to encourage the bun to eat hay. New pellets should be mixed with the old pellets and introduced gradually. Maybe you could ask the foster mum for some more of the old pellets so you can do a more gradual transition?

[CocoaPuff123]

Its not watery and it doesn’t have mucus. It’s just kind of…mushy? But not wet. It looks like if someone took regular bunny poop and flattened it into a pancake with like a sheet pan. If that makes sense.

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