My bunny took a bite of chocolate wrapped in foil. We're watching for any unusual behavior. It was a very small bit, do you think it'll pass okay? :?
Other stuff the buns have eaten included carpet ( I know I know.. bad bad bad but I was not aware Chico was eating the carpet and thought he was working on a chew stone), soap (chica running around in the bathroom), shampoo (knocked it over in the tub and licked it to see what it was), paper, cardboard, plastic, rocks, etc.. so far all of them are still around, but once again, I'm no vet and don't know how much your bunny ate.
From my past experience and I'm no doctor. Yes my buns are still alive from eating a nibble or tooth sized (and I mean BUNNY TOOTH) piece of chocolate.
I've given them apple twigs with leaves by accident.. thank goodness they did not go to town on the leaves (poison.. never give your bunnies the apple leaves it will kill them...)
I've had bunnies and dogs get into chocolate before. Like ate a small tooth sized (bunny) from a christmas candy and called the vet. The vet said that they should be ok as long as it was not more than a mouthful or if I thought it was ONLY a nibble. But nothing MORE than a nibble. Anything larger and I would have to take bun bun to the vet...
The same thing happened with my old dog Buttons that has since passed but not from chocolate. WE RUSHED him to the emergency vets. He got under the tree and ate a bite of the chocolate oranges.. you know the oranges wrapped up but are really entirely chocolate and you can break off into pieces? Well he ate a mouthful through the paper and BOX...and after we rushed him to the vets, found out he was going to be ok.
Same with onions (I believe onions are ok for bunnies but not dogs..it will screw their stomach up big time) some idiot in my family gave him a hamburger with what? You guessed it ONIONS.. took him to the vet and the amount was small enough that he was ok.
Other stuff the buns have eaten included carpet ( I know I know.. bad bad bad but I was not aware Chico was eating the carpet and thought he was working on a chew stone), soap (chica running around in the bathroom), shampoo (knocked it over in the tub and licked it to see what it was), paper, cardboard, plastic, rocks, etc.. so far all of them are still around, but once again, I'm no vet and don't know how much your bunny ate.
Unlike dogs you can't get them to vomit (I found that out when I took Lady and Brooke to get fixed the vet told me, which is why your bunnies can eat until they get the procedure done and dogs cannot..)
How long ago did they eat it and are they ok now? Did you call your vet? I always do that the minute I think something is wrong. I know with my dogs they were talking about charcoal to clean the stomach and don't know if they would do the same with the bun bun...
Keep us posted
Vanessa
Heh... turn your back for two freaking minutes and they're into everything! It's like having two year olds running around your house putting everything into their mouths. Bunny proof the hell out of everything and they'll still manage to find the *one* thing you missed.
Just a week or two ago, Nala **** near chewed her way out of their stroller when I left them unattended in the living room for a few minutes to round up the sugar gliders so we could leave - she chewed straight through thick, waterproof nylon AND velcro (a lot of both, too... looked like she was spitting it out, though)!! I had to make a thwartation device out of a NIC grid (later upgraded to a cooling rack that fit better) to make sure she couldn't keep chewing the area. Bad little bunny!
--things to watch for.??--with this concern--I would increase timothy-grasses,lots water,--the foil if any might/should go through,,--rabbits lack muscles for throwing up,-therefore anything that goes in and down is a concern,,--the gi-tract is an environment of balanced bacteria-(eco-system)-ie. eating the cecotropes,-- http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/poop.html --their consumption of no,no,s--does upset said bacteria,---rabbits don,t seem as concerned as we are,--there is another link one might entertain http://www.medirabbit.com please keep us at r.o.l informed as time permits sincerely james wallerMy bunny took a bite of chocolate wrapped in foil. We're watching for any unusual behavior. It was a very small bit, do you think it'll pass okay? :?
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