Pepper chewing up her fecals!

[Wascally Wabbits]

As some of you may know, I adopted Pepper a couple weeks ago. She is 9 months old, female, and spayed. I took her to the vet equipped with a bag of her poo after a few days of having her. The vet suspects that she might have some degree of megacolon (her fecals are very different sizes 0.25-0.75 inch in length and either grapey looking or elongated-egg-shaped). She always has a bit of gurgles, but she’s eating lots of hay and seems healthy so we decided we’ll just make sure we give her a small amount of pellets and lots of hay. No treats whatsoever.

Here’s the problem, I have never seen her eating her cecals or any cecals for that matter. She has these huge black soft wettish fecal (crumbles when you kinda pinch them a little) when she’s supposed to have her cecals. And she’d.. chew them up and spit them back out. Twice a day every day. I’ll take a pic the next time I see another pile of chewed up poop. Is this because she can’t form proper cecals and needs to get whatever nutrients she can out of the messed up cecals?

If anyone has a megacolon rabbit, is this normal?

[LBJ10]

No megacolon bun here, but eating/chewing up regular pellets is surprisingly normal. As for cecals, you typically don’t see them just lying around unless there is another issue. Some people see their bunny eating them and don’t recognize it and some people never see their bunny do it at all because some bunnies like to do it at night when no one is looking. Honestly, when mine do it, it’s pretty discreet. They look like they are grooming themselves, reach down to their nether region and come up chewing on “something”.

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