I hate molting!

[Ivory]

Aaaah make it stop. Erik is molting bad, and I keep brushing him every night…but I can never ever ever ever ever ever ever get the hair to stop coming off! It just doesn’t stop! I keep trying to get down to the new coat….yeah it’s not working. I’m using my furminator.

He seems a little sluggish, not sick-sluggish but kind of slow. He’s eating his greens well. He’s eating his pellets well, and eating lots of hay. He’s drinking quite well, too. So he’s not really sick or anything. His poos though are getting a little bigger from hair, and he’s made me some bracelets. It’s split down the middle with normal poops and hairy poops. I keep pulling the tufts out, and I keep brushing him…yeah it doesn’t seem to be working very well. I suppose I’m doing some good as I’m removing enough hair for a new rabbit every night.

The other problem is that he hates is when I have to brush him. I’ll start him out with giving him a treat, and he sits still, and I rub his head while I brush his body, but he grinds his teeth rather loudly, like he’s scared. He’s not enjoying it, as his eyes are wide open and he’s shivering. So I can’t find a good way of brushing him without terrifying him. I also need to clean his scent glands- he has a little bit of hardened residue on them. I’ve been trying to wait until the molting lets up a little bit, as he doesn’t smell or anything. Also, a nail trim is soon to be in order.

I’m hoping his molt is a result of the fall coming on and not stress from all the hurricane/moving around business. I think it’s the season though.

So I hate molting season. I just thought I’d say that.

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

my buns are molting too... or maybe just shedding.... 9 is there a difference? just like to say good luck and me too.

 

[BlueGiants]

I hate to say this, but most of my white Flemishlook like angora's right now. I can't brush them enough... If I turn on the fans it looks like a snowstorm. I can't wait for the weather to turn colder! Pretty sad.

 

[Ivory]

Heh well it seems that some of my brushing is finally paying off. I've been pulling less hair of of bun-bun.

Still, I hate molting.

LOL Bluegiants, I look like I have a soot storm whenever I'm done with the bun.

 

[furryface]

could somebody tell me how so much fur can come off of one little bunny?

the good news is if I catch Lola in the right mood she will let me comb (with a human comb of course!) her....

the birds should be happy come spring.....I'm just putting all the fur in a mesh bag and when nest building time rolls around we'll hang it out for the birds....

 

[BlueGiants]

furryface wrote:

could somebody tell me how so much fur can come off of one little bunny?

LOL! WAY TOO MUCH!!!!!! I swear it looks like I could make 3 rabbits out of what's coming off one of my white girls!

 

[Ivory]

Yeah I'm convinced that Erik could probably produce about five more bunnies, considering how much hair he has. It's ridiculous. I could stuff pillows. I'd bet they'd be soft, too.

Not to mention, the constant spitting out of hair after I'm done brushing...don't even THINK about wiping your nose or something...you'll get a crapload of hair in it! Yeah I've done that. Also had to vacuum every night, thanks to carpet and the rabbit.

He's now got tufts individually coming out....so maybe that's a sign of the end of this shedding and the beginning of new hair? I hope so. It's horrible.

 

[EdieRabbitsMom]

Edie has been molting, too. She did this last year about the same time. I brush her outside with the furminator and I know my neighbors probably think that I killed her, it looks like a bunny furr battleground out there! I feel so bad b/c I can't hold her in the house like I normally do and she really misses her nightly hour long pettums. She looks so sad sometimes. It makes me want to cry. When I sit outside with her, she plops down beside me and licks me, then puts her head under my hand so that I'll pet her. She is soooooooooo precious! :hearts

 

[BlueGiants]

Oh my! I put two of my girl out on the lawn last Saturday, while I cleaned their cages... figured I'd brush them outside, before I brought them back in. There was huge piles of white fur all over the lawn... the wind was blowing and it was getting caught in the bushes and plants. What a mess!I was afraid someone would think I'd killed something. (Now I wish I had taken pictures...)

 

[Phinnsmommy]

They are the same thing .

MyLOVEABLES!! wrote:

my buns are molting too... or maybe just shedding.... 9 is there a difference? just like to say good luck and me too.

 

[Phinnsmommy]

Molting is one of the very few annoying things about bunnies .

I like to brush mine outside so that the birds or squirrels or whatever is building a nest can use it. I know I would like to sleep in a bed of soft bunny fur :biggrin2:.

I have the furminator and its okay... but I always get more fur by just "plucking".

 

[mouse_chalk]

Ohhhh.... tell me about it! :shock:

Barney is I hope just coming to the end of his worst molt ever. This is what prompted us to order a furminator, and I'm SO glad we did! I can brush him with it for a good 10-15mins and still be getting piles of fur out. I find that mostly around his butt area, above his tail, the fur just seems to fall out! Luckily he doesn't seem to mind the furminator at all and makes little tooth purring noises

I too brush him outside, on the garden table and it gets EVERYWHERE round the garden! I worry about it flying in the wind into our neighbour's back door lol! :shock:

 

[furryface]

I swear my rainbow bridge puppy is watching me trying (key word there!) to brush Lola and laughing! (tasha was a Samoyed-you ain't seen nothing till you've tried to brush a Sammy!)

Lola does the same darn thing Tash did....brush,,,brush...

ok..I"m tired..it's time to sit....


now....how the heck am I supposed to brush your rear end if you insist on sitting on it??? I've even tried doing the rear first....they still sit!

 

[Pet_Bunny]

mouse_chalk wrote:

This is what prompted us to order a furminator, and I'm SO glad we did!

I was able to borrow Luvabuns Furminator when I bunnysat her two bunnies. Good thing I did, because all four bunnies in the house was shedding fur.

Out of desperation, I set up a grooming station in the basement with a vacuum cleaner so hair wouldn't get everywhere. When Jan saw how I would groom her bunnies (they sat still for me), she thought it was a great idea.

For sure the Furminator is better than the Shredender, now that I tried the two of them. The teeth in the Furminatoractually rakes and pulls on the hair, where the Shredender tries to comb out the hair.

 

[LuvaBun]

Pet_Bunny wrote:

mouse_chalk wrote:

This is what prompted us to order a furminator, and I'm SO glad we did!

I was able to borrow Luvabuns Furminator when I bunnysat her two bunnies. Good thing I did, because all four bunnies in the house was shedding fur.

Out of desperation, I set up a grooming station in the basement with a vacuum cleaner so hair wouldn't get everywhere. When Jan saw how I would groom her bunnies (they sat still for me), she thought it was a great idea.

Stan's set up is great . The vacuum tube is hanging above where he grooms them, and the hair gets sucked straight up, without getting everywhere

Jan

 

[NZminilops]

I'm lucky Sakura never molts by the sounds of it :shock:.

The cat however, sheds all year round :nonono:.

 

[juliew19673]

Can TotaLLY relate to your current HELL!!! Baxter! molts it seems, ALL OF THE TIME!

Might not be the case but when he goes into a "full on" molt I wake up each morning with bun fur in my mouth..

You brush, you take them outside and "shake their body" and fur flies EVERYWHERE and than you take them back inside and they sit down and they leave a "FUR CIRCLE"?!!! What the Hell? :shock:

I live for the month between when he molts... in 2 weeks I'll be SCREWED.....

Love the Bun otherwise.. sigh.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

LuvaBun wrote:

Stan's set up is great . The vacuum tube is hanging above where he grooms them, and the hair gets sucked straight up, without getting everywhere

Here are the pictures of my set up in the basement.

The vacuum is placed outside of the playpen which reduces the noise and stays out of the way.

The hose hangs on a rope over the playpen where I brush the bunnies.

The hose hangs over the grooming table, where it draws hair while I brush.
It also removes hair off the brush,when I hold the brush upto the hose.

Be careful about getting the hose too close to the bunny, or it will suck the whole bunny into the vacuum.

 

[LadyBug]

J's shedding too. he;s giving Pickles a run for his money on the body size/shedding ratio. J is shedding as much as Pick does all the time, but he's smaller:shock:

 

[Pet_Bunny]

I just bought the Furbuster and tried it out on my bunnies.
It works better than the ShredEnder.

But I am going to return the Furbuster and get the Furminator instead. The Furminator costs more.

The reason I am getting the Furminator is that it rakes the hair better, pulls more hairand works faster. The teeth is slightly longer, andis tapered on the end for deeper pulling of hair. I tried it with Luvabun's Furminator.

Here is a picture of the teeth on the ShredEnder (left)comparedto the teeth of the Furbuster (right).

The Furmintor's teeth (no picture) is slightlylongerthan the two above.