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This was Watson's birthday cake this year. Banana slices with canned pumpkin as the icing and a raspberry on top. He shared it with Cricket.

The published dose for meloxicam for rabbits in the most recent edition of Quesenberry & Carpenter's Ferrets, Rabbits, & Rodents is 0.3-0.5 mg/kg every 24 hours. However, I don't know the concentration of the meloxicam you have on hand or the weight of your rabbit so I can't get more specific...

Other options are using a carrier and purring a trash bag around it to keep the air in during the nebulizer treatment.

I have a nebulizer I used on my Cricket for her upper respiratory issues. We just nebulized with saline which seemed to help. I constructed a chamber out of a plastic storage container because she would not tolerate a mask. This is a video I made of how I made my nebulizing setup. Not sure...

Does she get offered (and if so is she eating) greens? As long as she's eating something and still pooping I wouldn't consider it an emergency, but if she's not eating anything you can expect to see signs of stasis. Eating selectively can be a sign of dental problems (their mouth may hurt more...

Hi and welcome to RO! Congratulations on your new bun. Where on the rabbit is this? I'm having trouble orienting myself. Regardless of what it is, getting yourself established with a veterinarian is a great plan.

I use a wide, low bowl to feed my pair their pellets and they can easily fit their faces in simultaneously. I also hand feed them some of their pellets so I can bond with them and as a reward for doing certain tricks so that helps me know who is getting pellets. They're good about sharing...

I'm sorry for your loss. Unfortunately the only way to know why your rabbit died would be to perform a necropsy and after a week that's not likely a good option. The challenging part is that you won't know if you were dealing with something like cancer or possibly something contagious to your...

I have done some clicker training with my two buns. They stand up on their back legs and will touch a target on a pole or my hand when I ask them to (if they're feeling motivated). I don't spend as much time with them on it as I should and I've faced some challenges when it comes to clicker...

My rabbits get ~1/3 of their pellets dumped in their bowl at breakfast time. The rest they have to work for by doing tricks or using a treat ball. My favorite treat ball is the pet safe slimcat because the opening is adjustable so I can make it small enough that only ~1 pellet falls out at a...

Looks great! I agree that he'd probably appreciate some vertical space like a shelf (or at least it'd be nice for you to be able to take advantage of all that vertical space). That could also give him something to hide under. Not sure where you're located but consider whether it might get too...

How motivated is she? If you put an obstacle there would she try to move it? I'd definitely try giving her an appropriate place where she can dig. My Cricket likes to dig and bite her grass mats and it's fine if she destroys/ingests those. You could try squirting her with a squirt bottle...

I have a jumbo cat pan with ~ 8 inch sides in their cage which I find is deep enough for us there although I have had problems with them digging litter out of shorter sided pans. We have some members with older rabbits who find that when you see litter box habits becoming more poor it can be...

Congratulations on the new additions! It helps if you know what they were eating previously and ideally you'd slowly transition from there. The usual rule of thumb is 1/4 cup of pellets per 5 lbs of bunny body weight per day. My 5 and 3 lb bonded pair share 1/4 cup of pellets/day, unlimited...

There are pros and cons to early spay neuter that we know about in dogs, particularly large breed dogs, but we don't have studies on those possible effects in rabbits. All the data I know of would support early spay neuter (prevent hormonal behavioral issues, faster recovery time, etc). with...

I think this is very bun-dependent. My rabbits don't really chew on towels/blankets, etc. They have a sherpa bed (actually supposed to be a small crate mat) that they love. Eventually they dig through it but they don't eat the material. If you do have a rabbit that's a chewer, either no...

I agree with your line of thinking. With our pets it's really about quality of life, not necessarily quantity. Often we like to recommend to owners of any animal that you take time now to think about the things your pet enjoys doing (for example, eating, digging, running through my favorite...

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I'm glad to hear you're seeing improvement!

Welcome to RO! I'm sorry you have to join us under such difficult circumstances. Unfortunately mammary tumors can occur in spayed or unspayed rabbits. In dogs there's evidence that spaying early in life may be protective when it comes to mammary tumors and we can presume that it may be...