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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

This topic has 13sd replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 11 months ago by Sara Darlingg.

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- 03/27/2010 at 8:34 PM
  Sara Darlingg
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  So my bun Sweetie has started shedding. I noticed this when petting her with slightly wet hands and having a huge ammount of fur stick to me! I started gently pulling out the lose fur and she seemed to enjoy the attention. I remembered that I had some clean horse brushes and grabbed those to brush her. her reaction to the brushes was better than I expected so i went to town!
  
  But now…that lovely light coloured fur in her picture is coming out leaving a much darker colour. and since i was pulling the fur out she’s got these ugly ugly patches of light and fluffy fur mixed with the dark smoother fur
  
  Oops! I wont be doing that again! I will add pictures soon!
  
  P.S.
  
  Noticed my bun doing the oddest thing once in a while since i’ve had her. She sits in an upright position with her head tucked in and her eyes are wide open but like completely blank, her ears are flat against the back of her head and she sits there for quite some time not moving at all except for the slightest rocking motion
  
  Is this that bunny open eyed power sleep?
- 03/27/2010 at 9:04 PM
  MirBear
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  lol she’s scanning, i started a thread about that when i first came on, its completely normall
- 03/27/2010 at 10:14 PM
  Monkeybun
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  Monkey does that, although she isn’t scanning.. she’s sleeping
- 03/27/2010 at 10:16 PM
  Sara Darlingg
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  Can you send me a link to it if you can find it? I’d really love to know a bit more about it!
- 03/27/2010 at 10:17 PM
  Sara Darlingg
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  I throught she was sleeping but I dont really know..
- 03/27/2010 at 10:19 PM
  Monkeybun
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  Monkey takes quick naps sitting upright all the time.. totally normal for her.
- 03/27/2010 at 10:23 PM
  Sara Darlingg
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  The rocking is what strikes me a really odd
  
  Does monkey rock too?
- 03/27/2010 at 10:32 PM
  Monkeybun
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  slightly, she’s so little and close to the ground its hard to tell sometimes. i think its a balance thing, to keep themselves upright while sleeping…
- 03/27/2010 at 11:47 PM
  lashkay
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  Don’t worry, the rocking is completely normal. Lash, my first bunny, would tuck herself into a furry ball with her forefeet curled under her chest and her hind legs tucked under her bottom, level with my hip, on my bed, and she would rock away!! She would gradually come to closing her eyes in this position and her closed eyes would twitch while she rocked her head every which way. I think they do this when they are in dreamland, probably dreaming of running and being active. No worries. Lash lived to be 7 and a half years old which outlived her normal lifespan for Netherland Dwarfs by two and a half years!
- 03/28/2010 at 9:37 AM
  Elrohwen
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  Yep, definitely sleeping. Scanning is when they bob their heads up and down actively while trying to judge depth perception or checking out something new. What you’re describing is like a power nap! Otto will often get rocking fairly hard when he does this – it’s so funny.
- 03/28/2010 at 7:15 PM
  wendyzski
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  Pepper sleeps with her eyes open, and rocks a little sometimes. It creeped me out until I got used to it.
  
  If your bunny is shedding, then PLEASE keep grooming or brushing, even though it makes them look funny. The more loose hair you get off them the less they can ingest which could cause serious stomach problems because rabbits can’t throw up hairballs.
- 03/29/2010 at 10:21 AM
  Sara Darlingg
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  The wide eyed rocking deffinately creeped me out lol
  As for the shedding I brush her with a soft rubber brush and she likes it!
  I try to do it once a day
- 03/29/2010 at 2:49 PM
  Mikayla
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  It’s fine, you didn’t do anything wrong. That’s totally normal, what’s happening with your bun. She’s not that old, right? She’s just losing her baby fur. The baby fur is fluffy and light colored, while the adult coat is smoother and darker. While they go through the transition from baby coat to adult coat, they have mixed patches, but that will disappear and it will be all of the darker color. But that’s totally normal and it happens to all bunnies. And you pulling out her loose fur did NOT cause the mixed patches.
- 04/12/2010 at 7:15 AM
  Sara Darlingg
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  Here are some pictures as promised so long ago lol keep in mind that about 2 weeks ago it was much muuuch worse lol!
  
  Can see it pretty well in the one below..the darkest fur on top, the medium colour around it and the patches of white still left over.
  
  Have YOU kissed your bun-bun today?
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