Hi All!
I have 2 buns, who both lovvve food most of the time.
Over the last few weeks though, one of them has been really quite fussy with her breakfast and i’m wondering what the cause is. She’s totally fine at other times of day.
It doesn’t happen all the time, just on odd days. When it does happen, it’s hard not to worry that it could be gas or GI stasis, so when I went away recently I would end up grilling the pet sitter about how enthused she was about her food and was going to cancel my trip early at one point because I was worried.
It is generally the case that I put their pellets down in the morning and they are both very excited by this event and run over and both demolish their way through them. When Gigi is having one of her “off” days though, she will just lay quietly, or sit in her litter box (but not eating) and totally turns her nose up at pellets offered to her.
The first 2 times this happened, I was worried, assumed it was gas and looked at all the tips on here for what to do and eventually got her eating after a few hours. Before my trip I took her to the vet who confirmed her teeth and tummy were fine and she is in good health. She had eaten apple the night before both times she was funny about pellets, so we thought it could be connected to that and they’ve both been on a sugar free diet since, other than the odd slice of carrot now and then.
Once back from my trip I had a friend come to stay, which meant I slept on the spare bed in the “bunny room”. They usually sleep by the side of my bed in my room and are quite lazy in the mornings. With me in their room however, they took great delight in waking me at 6am throwing toys around, jumping on me, chewing the bedding etc. They also both smashed through their pellets every morning without fail when I fed them 2 hours later.
Now I’m back in my room and they’re back to sleeping by my bed. Gigi would happily laze around there until 9am if it wasn’t for me getting ready for work and again twice over the last few days, she’s been really unenthused by her pellets. I actually picked her up and put her in front of them this morning before the other one gobbled them all up. She tucked into them eventually.
I thought rabbits were pretty much always hungry, but is it possible that she’s just not a morning bun? . She always eats eventually and then bounces around like normal, but some days seems to just need some easing into the day (like her mum)
I have 2 buns, who both lovvve food most of the time.
Over the last few weeks though, one of them has been really quite fussy with her breakfast and i’m wondering what the cause is. She’s totally fine at other times of day.
It doesn’t happen all the time, just on odd days. When it does happen, it’s hard not to worry that it could be gas or GI stasis, so when I went away recently I would end up grilling the pet sitter about how enthused she was about her food and was going to cancel my trip early at one point because I was worried.
It is generally the case that I put their pellets down in the morning and they are both very excited by this event and run over and both demolish their way through them. When Gigi is having one of her “off” days though, she will just lay quietly, or sit in her litter box (but not eating) and totally turns her nose up at pellets offered to her.
The first 2 times this happened, I was worried, assumed it was gas and looked at all the tips on here for what to do and eventually got her eating after a few hours. Before my trip I took her to the vet who confirmed her teeth and tummy were fine and she is in good health. She had eaten apple the night before both times she was funny about pellets, so we thought it could be connected to that and they’ve both been on a sugar free diet since, other than the odd slice of carrot now and then.
Once back from my trip I had a friend come to stay, which meant I slept on the spare bed in the “bunny room”. They usually sleep by the side of my bed in my room and are quite lazy in the mornings. With me in their room however, they took great delight in waking me at 6am throwing toys around, jumping on me, chewing the bedding etc. They also both smashed through their pellets every morning without fail when I fed them 2 hours later.
Now I’m back in my room and they’re back to sleeping by my bed. Gigi would happily laze around there until 9am if it wasn’t for me getting ready for work and again twice over the last few days, she’s been really unenthused by her pellets. I actually picked her up and put her in front of them this morning before the other one gobbled them all up. She tucked into them eventually.
I thought rabbits were pretty much always hungry, but is it possible that she’s just not a morning bun? . She always eats eventually and then bounces around like normal, but some days seems to just need some easing into the day (like her mum)