Foster rabbit help

[kiles94]

Hi! I just received three bonded foster rabbits this evening. Two neutered males (one lionhead and one rex), one unspayed female (lionhead). I’m keeping them in a separate room from my rabbits for now. Other than I fully intend on spaying the female, I had a question for ya’ll about the rex. I’m pretty sure the little guy had some urine scald, and I was wondering what you guys used to treat it or help keep your critters comfortable. I intend on taking him to the vet, but I just wanted to see what you guys did, there aren’t really any vets in my area that see rabbits on a regular basis. This same rabbit is also pretty overweight, and I was also wondering if you guys could give me some bunny exercise tips!
Thanks!

[Cocoa]

For exercise sometimes my bunnies hop up the stairs. They seem to like doing that and its good exercise. My bunnies are okay with walking on a leash so I let them run around the backyard. My backyard use some holes under the fence and a lot of bushes so they have to be on a leash. Those are my bunnies favorite things to do. I don’t know anything about the other issue though

[Sirius&Luna]

So urine scald can be caused by poor living conditions, (eg. a dirty hutch), which I guess is likely if they’re new fosters, or it can be caused by a rabbit peeing more than usual or being incontinent, such as due to a kidney or urine infection. So, it is worth seeing a vet just to make sure it doesn’t have a medical cause (which I know you said you were planning on anyway!). I’m from the UK, and have been told to put sudocrem on sore hocks and urine scald before. It’s a baby nappy rash cream, but if you’re American i’m not sure what an equivalent would be.

As for exercise, just give them as much free time to run around the room as possible, and make sure it’s carpetted/rugs so that they can get traction. You could hide veggies around the room to make them move and explore a bit more

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