Lazy or ill?

Hey all,

So my English Lop is 2 years old, Wiki. I personally think hes just being lazy with the summer but my friend thinks there is something more. Shes kept rabbits before and has studied for vet tech but honestly, I know more about rabbits than she does (she warned me not to get another one for bonding, said they'd fight because her two unfixed males did.....no sh*t -_-).

Anyway, Wiki free roams all day and is caged at night for sleep time. He eats second cut Timothy hay and has access to it all day and night. He gets 1/4 cup of Oxbow Garden pellets twice a day. Hes 10.5 pounds. He also gets romaine lettuce or escarole or chicory fairly regularly. I dont get to it every day but a few times a week. He drinks plenty of water too. I have water bottle in the cage and a gravity waterer outside it too.

I dont see any signs of distress or pain, no hunched position, no grinding. He mostly flops over and sleeps for a while or settles down to sleep. Does this on carpet or linoleum, no particular care as to which it is.

Hes been fairly lazy the last two months. I figured his hormones finally ran out, he was neutered mid December 2017. Being that hes a big bun, I knew it might take a little longer. Hes perfectly rambunctious during the dawn and dusk hours which is when I see the wild bunnies outside during summer so figured it's just the heat. Oh I also run the AC for him all day and night too so it's not actually hot inside. But with longer days I know his internal clock is telling him its summer time.

So just wanted to check with you guys to see if i should watch for anything else in particular. Poop has been fine, no uneaten cecals or anything. He eats a lot and poops a lot lol. I now understand the joys of keeping smaller rabbits, smaller poops XD

Sounds perfectly normal to me, and like a bun that's completely settled in. Most rabbits are pretty inactive during the middle of the day, so nothing unusual there. I usually go by unusual changes of behavior and loss of appetite at feeding time, to determine if I think a bun is feeling unwell. As long as that's not going on with your bun, I would think that everything is just fine.

JBun said:

Sounds perfectly normal to me, and like a bun that's completely settled in. Most rabbits are pretty inactive during the middle of the day, so nothing unusual there. I usually go by unusual changes of behavior and loss of appetite at feeding time, to determine if I think a bun is feeling unwell. As long as that's not going on with your bun, I would think that everything is just fine.

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That's what I thought, thanks JBun ^_^

I have an English lop and was just this second thinking how much I love him but wish his poos were smaller! Your hubby looks happy and settled and relaxed. I think he is fine .