Thank you for all the information. At his age, I don't really want to do a lot of invasive testing like blood work and x-rays, so my next step will be to stop the Critical Care and see what happens.
My husband has been buying various brands of hay to try, but always Timothy. Fred was also boarded at a bunny B&B about a month before he got sick, so they were giving him a different type of food and hay. I had hoped that if he got a parasite from that stay, the medication that the vet gave him...
I'm not giving him pellets now. He is only eating hay and a little Critical Care.
He is just having the oblong poops now and they are kind of soft and wet looking, but no more mucus or diarrhea at this time.
My 10-1/2 year-old bunny Fred started having oval-shaped poops, diarrhea, and mucus in his poops about 3 months ago. I tried a couple of weeks of Bene-bac and it seemed to help somewhat, but not completely. I took him to the vet and she gave him ivermectin and metronidazole and told me to stop...
Thank you Preitler! I will definitely give the pet sitter a thorough walk around. As an aside, I live in upstate NY, not NY City. NY is more than the city, more than 54,000 square miles of rural land, suburban towns and villages, and smaller cities!
My 2 rabbits are 9 years old and have always lived outdoors in hutches on our deck in upstate NY. We take really good care of them and they have survived all these years in a 4 season climate without any problems. I am looking for a pet sitter for them, but I'm afraid people will judge us and...
We got her from the SPCA and they said she was spayed. I have always wondered if they actually did it because she was very territorial and made a nest a couple of times. Thank you for your support.:brown-bunny
She was eating up until yesterday. Now she is just drinking some water from time to time. Her temperature at the vet was 96.7. They said we could take her to Cornell to try to save her, but it would be expensive and my husband really got the impression from them that she was dying and it would...
My bunny Pepper started acting sick today.
She wasn't coming out of her hut and her eyes were squinty. I had my husband take her to the vet and they took an x-ray.
The vet said there is a large mass around her stomach, but she didn't know what it is. Pepper's temperature was dropping so...
I did a little Google search on mites and found an article that said you can treat mites with selamectin, which is the main ingredient in Revolution. You have to get it from a vet anyway, so you could ask the vet to be sure.
I let my rabbits out in our backyard in the summer. I put them in an exercise pen with a net on the top to keep out hawks. Luckily I've never had a problem with dogs, cats, or foxes trying to get at them, but that is something you need to be aware of and make sure the enclosure you put them in...
She may take some time to come around to the hay. My bunny Pepper didn't eat hay at first,but after a few months she started eating it and now goes crazy for it. I tried different hays too, but her favorite is the Timothy I get from a local farm. Refresh the hay a couple of times a day to get...
She is soooo cute! She looks like a very curious and happy bunny. You could try stopping the romaine lettuce and see if the runny poop goes away. It may be from stress though. I know one of my rabbits had that the first couple of days after we got him.
I have 3 rabbits that I have kept outside for 2-1/2 years now. They do just fine in the winter and we get very cold here in the Northeast US. Only Smokey goes into his cubby with straw when it's cold. He is the smallest so he seems to need it. My husband started giving them a lot of hay in...
Another thing to consider if someone in the house has allergies is the hay that rabbits eat. They need hay available to them at all times. Most rabbit owners get Timothy hay, which some people can be allergic to. Sometimes people with a Timothy allergy can use another hay such as oat hay or...
I have three rabbits all housed separately and they each have a different litter box based on their behavior and size. The first picture is of Pepper's box. I used a dishpan and my husband made a wooden frame for it because she was always tipping it over. She has since chewed up the wood frame a...