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Honestly regardless of if something is too small, rabbits love to have something that is space just for them. When I rescued Delilah she came in one of those crappy pet store cages. I kept it, stuck it in their enclosure with the door permanently open, and they happily claimed it as their...

Yes, Delilah does barbering as one of the side effects of the neglect she experienced as a baby before she came to me. It’s gotten MUCH better over the years but still resurfaces occasionally like all her stereotypic behaviours. She will be grooming Lahi, usually his shoulders, when suddenly...

@Alyssa and Bugs♡ yes, precisely! If you stop to give him the treat, you’re reinforcing whatever immediately preceded you stopping. If he bites, as much as possible you should not react, and keep going. If he’s gone a little bit with no biting or struggling, then stop to give him a treat...

So to be quite honest I’m not sure how I would go about objectively assessing a rabbit’s enjoyment of being put on their back, and differentiating it from a fear response that has been negatively reinforced. The only conclusive indicator would be if a rabbit flopped over on their back...

Gonna ramble a bit about some principles of behavioural psychology. I’m not saying you’re wrong because I don’t know your rabbits and what you’re basing your assumptions on, so I’m going to babble about how objective behavioural assessment works in the hopes that you’ll be able to use it to...

Honestly what you’ve described sounds a lot like trancing—please don’t do this. Being forced to lie on their backs is not good for rabbits, and a rabbit that is put on their back and then becomes pliant and “calm” is actually in a state of tonic immobility—a fear response. Bunny burritos are...

Indeed if one eye is significantly out further than normal, that’s concerning. This happened to Lahi and it was a retrobulbar abscess. One good way to tell if an eye is doing something funky is to look for the conjunctivia (that pink bit showing at the corner of Lahi’s left eye in the above...

If your two buns are the ones in your profile picture, if she’s getting poop stuck in her fur then there’s some sort of problem, healthy buns stay clean on their own. Is she overweight? Google “rabbit body condition score” to see how to score obesity. A really fat rabbit may not be able to bend...

Lahi doesn’t like humans touching him, and when he wants something out of the way his tendency is to shove his nose under it and then try to toss it out of the way. One day when he was really upset with me totally cleaning out the litter box, he actually grabbed my pant leg and tried to drag me...

I just called my previous vet, indeed on the notes from his last dentistry it said his molars were all normal. He had a checkup in September where the notes also said all teeth normal, but the bottom teeth might not have necessarily been visible just using a mouth scope while he was awake. The...

They actually sent me his xrays which was pretty cool but they’re chest x-rays, they never did an x-ray of his head. Should they? Can infection be seen on x-rays? The reason they didn’t do x-rays on Delilah to look for the source of the tear duct blockage is that there’s so much going on in the...

Okay READY FOR THIS?! Behold: Lahi’s appointment summary and the photos of his teeth! The two pictures on top, his right teeth, looking perfectly straight and even, his left upper teeth, looking like a jumbled mess and missing several premolars, and then his left bottom teeth. Tooth. Remaining...

To clarify, now that I’m thinking about it: Lahi is a 12 year old dwarf mix with a history of tooth problems, but only on his left TOP molars. The backmost left top molar was pulled when it became really wiggly. We were concerned that the bottom corresponding tooth would grow out of control...

I swear to any power listening that my buns have made it their life goal to develop every rare and weird health condition in existence. And today’s health condition is DISAPPEARING TEETH. I brought Lahi and Delilah to the OVC for a checkup on Lahi’s ear which had a tumour surgically removed in...

I have experience with a male who’s been neutered since he was a baby, a female who was unspayed her entire life, and a female who was spayed as an adult, so allow me to compare and contrast. I did absolutely no research before getting buns and decided that I wanted two females, so that I...

I’m a little concerned about the humane society that told you this. A) because seriously, misinformation to adoptees is really bad, B) they apparently thought they were giving you a wild animal, and C) they either didn’t know or didn’t care that this would be highly illegal? Most vets won’t...

The other option is making a NIC condo. These ^ are pictures from google. It’s a great way to give buns customizable, unique vertical space without taking up a lot of horizontal space. I created a condo for when they were living in a 4x8 enclosure to give them more space, and they LOVVVVVEEEEED...

Oh my god Oliver was the cutest, I adore otter rabbits! I can see from his face too that he was a pure dwarf, or close to it. Lahi is a dwarf mix, he’s small but doesn’t have the super rounded face and tiny cat ears. The thing with any rabbit breed with an atypical face is they’re VERY prone...

Yep! I had Lahi’s lump checked out when it arrived, and then showed it to every single vet for years. And the answer was always “not sure what it is but it isn’t growing or hurting him so unless you want us to sample it we don’t recommend doing anything” Once it started growing and getting it...

It got red and cracked when it started growing because of inflammation, but when it was stable it was just a black bumpy wart looking thing. Reminded me of my plantar’s wart I had on my foot as a kid. But keep in mind one of the primary characteristics of a melanoma is dark pigment. I think it...