Please help

[hannahlovesbunbun]

   My situation inst an emergency im just desperate for some information from some knowledgeable bunny owners.

– first can anyone tell me what kind of bunny i have? Hes srot of calico furred like a harlequin, but long when he stretches like a Himalayan. I cant add a photo but I’ll make him my profile.

-I think my bunny is experiencing mild pododermatitis. I think its from his old owner because i lay down towels for him because i did read wire could irritate their feet. Any tips? I think theres just some hair loss and redness. I just noticed when inspecting his feet. Hes three years old and I’ve only had him for three months give or take a few weeks.

-He seems unhappy sometimes but I’ve been extremely busy these last few weeks and haven’t been able to let him out as much. We also think thees mice so ive been very hesitant to let him run anywhere besides my room because of the traps. swear one is big enough to hurt him. We still have a loving relationship, hes kissing me right now, but does anyone want to give me some tips on how to spruce up his cage life.

-lastly my bun bun is not neutered. I got him because i love animals and he was spending all of his time in someones shabby garage. He was so docile and hes become so sassy alert and buoyant. I’ve been trying to read up on behavior of unneutered bunny’s but hes never really aggressive, he does bite blankets and dig a lot but i think he’s making a bed? He’s bit my boyfriend unexpectedly before and my mom but that’s because she was feeding him too late and he was probably hungry and mistook her finger for a pellet. Anyway I’ve read its good to neuter them and i was wondering if my three year old bun is too old. Is it worth it? He’s never sprayed to my knowledge either.

Thank you! this got super long but thanks to whoever takes the time to read it, respond, and help if they can

[Bam]

Hi, and thank you for rescuing this bunny!
I can’t say what breed he is but his coloring is Japanese harlequin.

It is true that wire bottom cages can hurt the feet. There’s a difference between calluses and sore hocks, sore hocks is much worse and needs vet attention, calluses is just hardening of the foot soles. If it doesn’t progress further than to calluses, you’re good. You could use fleece in his cage instead of towels. Sometimes you can buy really cheap fleece blankets or pieces of fleece, and it’s a great material because it’s easy to wash and pretty safe to ingest little bits of. Buns often like to dig in fleece and build blanket mounds and drag pieces of fleece from one part of their area to another. That can be a nice activity for some buns.

Another activity that buns often like is chewing sticks or twigs of apple or willow. If you give him apple, make sure it’s from pesticide-free trees. Willow trees are rarely if ever treated with pesticides. Pet shops and online pet stores sell willow balls and apple stick, but it’s of course cheaper if you know someone that has trees and would be willing to give you a few twigs now and then. If you decide to buy chew toys for him, start with one or two, because he might not be interested. Because he’s an adult and has been used to a life of boredom, he might need a long time to understand how to use toys.

Buns also tend to like to destroy (“bunstruct”) cardboard boxes. An overturned cardboard box with two doorholes (they want two because that resembles a bunny burrow) works excellently as a hidey house and a home-improvement project. He shouldn’t eat the cardboard though. Ingesting a little bit is ok, but he mustn’t like devour it.

As for neutering, 3 years is not too old to be neutered. But if you have a single boy and he’s not displaying adverse behaviors such as pee spraying, he doesn’t have to be neutered. Neutering has few real health benefits for boys, we do it so they can have more freedom and to relieve stress in obsessively sexually interested males – and of course it must be done if the bun is to have a friend. Pee spraying and poop marking and other hormonal behaviors can crop up after quite some time though, for my Bam it took a whole year and he was an adult when I got him.

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