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With my patients, it's motility issues that prevent them from cleaning themself, either they can't rach there or it hurts. My 11 yo girl is on daily Meloxicam (pain Med), makes things a lot better. Sometimes I need to bath her, and I use a blow-dryer to get her dry, always my hand in the...

I really don't know, they say young foxes, but in my opinion quite often the sales department is rather optimistic, the mice around here run off with what is sold as mouse traps here. Anyway, in the (german) reviews are accounts of successfully trapping foxes with it, so it might be that I do...

I used the fenced in hutch area as trap, so they get the connection: Sneaking up on rabbits -> get trapped. My hutches are safe, the rabbits are used to dogs comming in and they have enough hiding spaces. If I would need to build a trap for a fox I would make it huge, and designed like a...

Catching a fox is not easy, they are so smart - and pretty strong for their size. They can climb, and are just amazing animals. Not as dumb as dogs. After one attacked my boy at noon, with me close enough to get between them after he screamed, I got quite weary too. My rabbit, although not...

Not water - use vegetable oil. Usualy that helps with such glues.

To me too. I reckon it's not cold there :D

Well, mine sure don't mind if the apples they find in the grass are already fermenting...

I'm sorry :( Hm, were his eye lids, base of ears swollen, puffy? If yes, I wouldn't rule out Myxomatosis, depending on if it's even out there where you live. The timeline seems extremly short though, compared to what I've experienced. Anyway, since that would be infectuos make sure his brother...

I never had issues when I let my buck free roam with bucklings up to12-14 weeks. Then they hit puberty in earnest and started attacking him occasionally, although twice their size. He just dodged it but I kept them apart after that started. He got along fine with any kits he met (unlike my...

Funny thing is, pumpkin is part of their winter vegetables - it takes up to two weeks for some of them to eat it, it's a rather aquired taste, so it cought me somewhat off guard when they bounced on them when I let them out on the meadow, despite lots of yummy greens all around. Still enough...

Well, two more in the nest is good news. Doe should start feeding soon. As I said, give her peace and privacy :)

For whatever reason, this year my rabbits are destructive to my vegetables. For 10 years they left the Topinambur alone once itr was 3ft high -not this year, had to lock them out of the plot. And now pumkins. They always ignored them, not this year. So I have to cage them to save what's left of...

First thing is to keep the kit warm, really warm, there should be 2" of fluffy fur around them in a nest, for a singleton that's still dificult to keep warm. You can use a folded towel as floor, and if there is not enough fur soft, fine hay, or even dryer lint (have only read about that) can be...

Give him time, they expand their action radius gradually. Maybe leave a treat on the first step down now and then, when it's gone, next step. Maybe showing him what the stairs are for might help, by going up and down when he can see, or even sit there for a while. One thing, rabbits like to...

What greens? I moostly feed fresh forage - grasses, weeds, leafs... - most of the year, imo the most natural diet, and they barely touch any hay at those times, the fresh stuff just is more yummy. Hay is just a convinient - and in winter necessary - replacement for the fresh version of it...

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Ah, well, hormones. Until recently my house bunny pair always were an intact buck - Herr Hase and now Pacino - and a spayed doe, Dotty. Ok, Dotty is the most patient girl I know (but snaps into berserk mode if any other rabbit gets into her territory), but in my experience what helped a lot...

Good luck :)

I noticed that my 10yo Red didn't venture out of the hutch anymore, well she's somewhat athritic and half blind, but she gets along well enough, living together with 5 other does. I didn't realize how severe the issue already was, a lot of matting that trapped urine, which caused more matting...

Yes, welcome, and just as a side note, the thread title is possible the best to hide your question ;). Something like "picked up by ears - check necessary" would more likely get you responses on that topic. Anyway, it is imo a bad practice. Sure, they are easy to handle that way, they get calm...