Your salad, and your grooming routine?

[litheandgraphic]

Just curious, so here’s a two-parter for you all:

What’s in your bunny’s salad?
What leafy greens are your buns getting every day? Theodore gets a mix of green leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, and cilantro. 

What’s your grooming routine?
During heavy shedding, I’ll groom Theodore once and maybe even twice a day, and when he’s not shedding, I’ll do it every other day — though he doesn’t really need it that much. 

I use the HairBuster comb, which I bought from here, and a small soft brush originally intended for dogs. I’ll often start by pulling out those little loose chunks of fur, and then follow up with the “damp hand” technique, which involves gently wetting your hands and running them over your bunny, then wiping the fur off on a towel. I’ll then run the HairBuster at an angle through his fur, all across his body. Finally, I’ll brush him over with the soft brush until he looks glossy and smooth! 

So what do you guys do?

[Mocha]

Salad- my bunnie’s salads are always varying from week to week, but generally the buns usually get as a sort of base, romaine lettuce, red leaf lettuce, cilantro, and parsley. Whenever I go veggie shopping (once a week) I pick out 2 of these vegetables. Either bok choy, endive, curly kale, carrot tops (the nice ladies at the farmers’ market give them to me for free though ). In my garden, we grow lots of kale, beet tops,arugula, and dandelion weeds, so my bunnies also get those.

Grooming- Rumpus and Mocha get brushed once a day during heavy shedding. When they’re not heavily shedding, Rumpus gets brushed once a week (he literally only sheds twice a year), and Mocha gets brushed 3-4 times a week (she sheds A LOT). I usually just brush them, and every couple minutes sort of just blow all the fur off where i’m grooming them and pet them so all the fur goes away. I keep doing this, and then at the end lightly wet my hands and pet them. They get their nails trimmed about every 2-3 weeks. Their nail trimmers are just a basic small animal trimmer/cat trimmer from petsmart, and I use the
Furminator brush (It works really well for me, but I never overbrush them with this as they do seem to go a little bald).

[Aeyja]

Harvey gets a big handful of kale, a stick of celery, big handful of dark lettuce, a baby carrot with the top OR a couple of slices of banana, spinach about every second day, and a third to a half of a fennel bulb. Feel free to tell me if this is wrong or not – it’s just that he’s a fussy bun and these are the things he reliably eats

So far I haven’t groomed him at all. We have had him 3 months but he hasn’t shedded yet. Just wait until summer

[gingerg]

My babies are pretty young, so I’ve only introduced them to a few veggies. They get romaine lettuce and cilantro everyday (far and away their favorites). I’ll give Gadget some mint, if I have it (she likes it, though not as much as she likes the cilantro). When I have it, they’ll both get small pieces of strawberry or cucumber.They tried bok choy but didn’t really dig it all that much. One time I bought beets at the farmers’ market, and they loved the beet greens, so I’ll probably do that again soon.

[Stickerbunny]

Their salad varies by what is available. Romaine, kale, cilantro, parsley, etc but our store is haphazard in restocking so I buy what is available.

Their grooming is.. they shed 24/7 so hands can handle most the loose fur. I have a human brush I use on Powder sometimes, but Stickers no brush I know works on her rex fur, so a wet hand. They get their claws clipped as they need them.

[Bam]

My bunnies get dandelion greens, yarrow, Jerusalem Artichoke-leaves, ground-elder, some clover, plantain (not the banana), apple-leaves and rose-leaves and mint and nasturtium, kale and black kale. The ratios vary. This is what is available now, some I grow myself and some I pick in nature – and it’s a delight to be able to offer them such a variety of bunny-appropriate greens. When winter comes, they have to make do with bought stuff, and that means the variety drops. Organic greens are crazy expensive here, so most often I get conventionally grown stuff. I try to dry some fresh leaves to use as hay-toppers, but I can’t keep up, they eat SO MUCH.

I brush them when there’s a need, which is not very often, but they are not long-hairs. I groom their little faces with my nails, if there are any small crusts attached to hair that looks like a little fan, often found among their whiskers, because I imagine that’s how bunnies groom each other. I also pick out loose fur.

[boogercj]

Ours get spring greens as a staple, with a changing combination of parsley, coriander (cilantro), mixed baby lettuce leaves, carrot tops, basil, broccoli, cucumber and the very occasional small piece of carrot. 

We’re pretty bad at grooming, I have to admit. We probably groom them once a week with a “slicker brush” but when they’re moulting, we try and tease as much loose fur out as possible when we pet them (which is several times a day). 

I know, being long-haired bunnies we should be grooming them properly much more often. They hate being picked up, which is mostly the reason we don’t do it so often. We’re going to try and train them to tolerate it a bit more (by rewarding them with treats when they’re picked up) so we can facilitate more grooming.

[litheandgraphic]

Thanks for sharing guys! So interesting to see what everyone else does!

[B]bam[/B] – that is such an interesting mix! You clearly live somewhere that has very different flora than where I live. Of course not much grows in New York City. XP

[B]Boogercj[/B] – Have you tried setting a bowl of food in front of them and grooming while they munch? I do this with Theodore whenever I need him to stay still for anything. He will tolerate anything – even medication – for pellets! But not all bunnies are like this.

[B]Aejya[/B] – What a spoiled bun! Does he get the carrot and banana every day? My only concern with that would be too much carbs and sugar. He’s probably loving it though!!

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