Please help me!! My bunny is always having soft and yucky poop!! What could be wrong with him??

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- 04/15/2013 at 11:19 PM
  iluvbunbun
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  My bunny is a two year old n. male, white with black spots. His name is bun-bun and he’s my best buddy. He’s part of my family but I’m scared he’s sick and I don’t know if he’s having a belly ache all the time or not. He has soft yucky poop and it gets all over the house and him. I took him to the vet a few times and they said he appears to be fine and he weighs what he should. However they just give him the same antibiotic and I never get any answers, I don’t have a lot of money or else I would have his stool sample checked and all that. I love him but I’m at a lost here. I have stage five cancer and he’s been by my side through all of it. I wish I knew what to do to help him?!
- 04/15/2013 at 11:32 PM
  Bwbedard
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  What is his diet?
- 04/15/2013 at 11:51 PM
  iluvbunbun
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  His diet is high fiber oxbow pellets, botanical hay, fresh water, some rabbit treats from the pet store, and sometimes he eats grass from the backyard,
- 04/16/2013 at 6:15 AM
  LittlePuffyTail
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  Were the vets you saw rabbit savvy? They certainly should have done more.
  
  It could be several things. Without doing a stool sample there is really no way to know. My vet doesn’t charge very much for a stool sample. Have you inquired about a price?
  
  Does he have any normal poops at all or is at mushy?
- 04/16/2013 at 7:10 AM
  Sarita
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  Could possibly be “cow poop” syndrome as he has the coloring, I’m not an expert on this but here is a link from Dana Krempels and one of our former Forum Leaders who had a rabbit with this problem:
  
  en.allexperts.com/q/Rabbits-703/200…os-Cow.htm
- 04/16/2013 at 8:34 AM
  Beka27
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  In another thread you posted that you feed yogurt drops and granola bars…
  https://binkybunny.com/FORUM/tabid/54/aft/124211/afpg/3/Default.aspx
  
  I give my bunny yogurt drops and granola bars for bunnies that they sell at the pet store. I hand feed him those and some veggies sometimes like carrots and such.
  
  Neither of those are an appropriate treat for rabbits. Just because a pet store sells something for rabbits, does not mean it is the healthiest option. Yogurt is too high in sugar and granola/oats are too high in carbs. Both can (and probably are!) contributing to the poop issues he is having. I would stop giving those today.
  
  You also said he gets carrots “sometimes”. Is he receiving a minimum of 2 cups of leafy green veggies every day, or just the occasional carrot?
  
  I recommend you take a good look at his daily diet and modify it to mimic HRS guidelines. Keep it simple right now. Just a limited amount of quality timothy pellet (no more than a 1/4 cup per day!), lots of grass hay always available, and 2 cups of greens per day. No treats, no fruit, no oats, definitely no more yogurt drops! See if a solid diet helps.
- 04/16/2013 at 8:57 AM
  Sarita
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  Beka makes a good point – I did not see the post where you feed yogurt and granola bars – not a good choice for a rabbit. Definitely get him on a proper rabbit diet.
  
  I just reread your post as well and I’m sorry you are going through stage five cancer – I am sending you strength and healing vibes and definitely an animal companion can bring you joy when you are feeling down.
- 04/16/2013 at 3:27 PM
  Bam
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  Healing vibes from me too.
  
  I too think your bunny’s problem has to do with the granola bars + yogurt drops. Pet-stores often sell idiotic stuff like anti-tick-pills with garlic for dogs, even though garlic is poison to dogs, you can’t trust them at all. When I gave my bunny bunny-muesli, which he LOVED, he got sticky and soft poop. When I stopped giving the muesli even piece by piece as treats, his stomach became fine in about a week and it has been since.
- 04/16/2013 at 4:25 PM
  Bwbedard
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  Yea Winston’s stomach is very fickle. Most treat or over feeding of pellets cause him to have yucky poops as well. If i cut back his diet of pellets and up the diet of hay and greens it usually sorts its self out.
- 04/19/2013 at 9:05 AM
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  Generally soft poops happen for the reverse reason diarrhea happens in people: soft poop happens when the food is taking TOO LONG to pass through the gut. Sometimes benebac is helpful with moving out accumulated hair that may be slowing digestion down; some people swear by fresh-squeezed pineapple juice (my rabbits always thought that was too acidic), and there’s always the vaseline petro-malt which can help, if it is indeed due to hair caught in the caecum slowing things down. . . . Just a thought.
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