pshepard
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Hey All!
I just purchased my second rabbit a few weeks ago, a cute little Holland Lop. His name is Pickles.
Pickles is having a variety of strange issues, one being that he's super slow to eat his cecals and has been since day one which was over two weeks ago now. My other rabbit doesn't usually leave his cecals around. I see him bend over and eat them straight from...well you know. But Pickles drops his and leaves them for hours. He ends up eating all of them which I guess it good but he leaves them where he lays so they smear all over the place. He smells horrible, and the room he stays in smells horrible. Some days I have to just scrape it all up b/c of the smell but I'm not sure if that's the best thing to do since he needs to eat those.
He's getting Oxbow Pellets for babies since he's only 10 weeks old. He's also getting unlimited timothy hay and water. He's not getting any veggies right now. He's eating just fine. I'm not sure what's wrong with him, or if anything is wrong with him. I found loads of info about rabbits not eating their cecals but I haven't found anything about rabbits dropping them off for hours and slowly eating them. It's really the whole smell and mess thing that's making this unpleasant for me. Any suggestions?
I just purchased my second rabbit a few weeks ago, a cute little Holland Lop. His name is Pickles.
Pickles is having a variety of strange issues, one being that he's super slow to eat his cecals and has been since day one which was over two weeks ago now. My other rabbit doesn't usually leave his cecals around. I see him bend over and eat them straight from...well you know. But Pickles drops his and leaves them for hours. He ends up eating all of them which I guess it good but he leaves them where he lays so they smear all over the place. He smells horrible, and the room he stays in smells horrible. Some days I have to just scrape it all up b/c of the smell but I'm not sure if that's the best thing to do since he needs to eat those.
He's getting Oxbow Pellets for babies since he's only 10 weeks old. He's also getting unlimited timothy hay and water. He's not getting any veggies right now. He's eating just fine. I'm not sure what's wrong with him, or if anything is wrong with him. I found loads of info about rabbits not eating their cecals but I haven't found anything about rabbits dropping them off for hours and slowly eating them. It's really the whole smell and mess thing that's making this unpleasant for me. Any suggestions?