Ear in Water?

[buck rogers]

It's been a warm here....We have the air conditioner on but it's still 78F. We gave both the buns frozen water bottles but they aren't too interested. Our new sweetheart Murphy decided he would lay right next to his water bowl with one of his ears in it! Does anyone else's bunny do this? Is it ok? Just wondering

 

[monklover]

Yes it's fine Rabbit's regulate their temperature through their ears so he was probably just trying to cool off! Buddy does it all the time!
~Megan

 

[buck rogers]

Thanks monklover!

 

[NZminilops]

Clever Murphy knew exactly what to do when he got hot :biggrin2:.

 

[Bangbang]

:biggrin2:Bangbang does that in summer its so cute

 

[amberelizabeth]

I don't have air in my house, and I had planned to put a fan on low facing my buns cage, is it bad to have constant air blowing on them?



I'll also freeze some water bottles

 

[pamnock]

Many rabbits will hang over the water dish in an attempt to cool themselves. Watch for continually wet dewlaps which can develop bacterial infections due to the constant moisture.

Fans can be blow on rabbits during hot days. This helps to evaporate the moisture as they breath (their primary cooling mechanism).



Here's an article I wrote on heat stress in rabbits . . .

http://www.geocities.com/pamnock/heatstress.pdf



Pam

 

[amberelizabeth]

thanks! I'll look into it. I was just curious because I know my house can probably get pretty hot during the day :grumpy:

 

[buck rogers]

Thanks everyone, I assumed that was what he was doing I just wanted to make sure there wouldn't any health problems because of it. There was a good size storm today and thankfully its a lot cooler today and everyone seems a lot happier because of it!

 

[~Bracon~]

I duno if you have anything like tht over in the US but ive got this water bottle cooler thing that keeps it cool in the summer and stops it freezing over in the winter. Ive found it really useful

 

[kathryn303]

It has been getting in the 100 degree area here lately. Bunny seems to be fine though as long as the air conditioner is on.