Car Traveling Problems Please Help

[Kurtbean]

Hello everyone! I have signed up here to get some very needed advice. My new bun (about 5-6 weeks old id guess) is coming to Massachusetts with us from Arizona! Today was the first day of the miserable 12 hr car rides (going to take 4 days). We have hotels for every night, and she’s in a proper carrier. Anyways, it’s been about 9 hours now, and she has not pooped once. She refuses to eat as well. I have been syringe feeding her water and pedialyte. She is hydrated, but like I said refusing to eat (she head bumps me when I try to put hay near her mouth) and have not seen or found one single poop. I am getting very nervous. The temperature is being kept at 65-70 degrees F in the vehicle as well, so her temps okay. Any suggestions?? Please remember like I said we are on our way across the country and on a tight budget and time frame while doing so, so we cannot take her to a vet. 3 more days of this, please help!

 

[Hermelin]

Your bun it’s too young for leaving her mother.

You need to let her be in a calm place and not be stressed. And maybe she will go back. But you should be giving her milk replacement if she’s only 5 weeks.

My bun as a kit only started to eat solid food when he was 7 weeks old. Before that he had to have milk replacement, which he got from the breeder. Because he was hand raised, without mother.

First days my bunny as a kit only ate during the night or when no one was home.

He also went through a long car drive 8 hours but he was 8 weeks and had already been fully weaned.

So you need to take her to a vet if she’s not eating after 1 day.

 

[Hermelin]

Did you get pellets from the breeder she’s used with, put a few in a bowl near her hiding house. If you didn’t get any pellets from the breeder I would be really careful giving her pellets and would only give a small amount or buy the same brand the breeder used.

The put the pellets in a bowl and wait a few hours later to see if she have eaten any.

How’s her droppings and make sure the hay it’s easily accessible for her to get. Not in a hay rack, lay it on the cage floor or litter box.

 

[Kurtbean]

I don’t know how old she is, that was a guess. She is from a local pet shop. I don’t think they would sell me a bunny that still needed it’s mother, but who knows. She seems pretty capable. She usually eats like a monster and is really happy and Binkies constantly. She has started eating again and pooping, so thank you. She must of just been scared at first.