Hunny.Bunny
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Okay, so I have an almost 4 month old Holland Lop/Netherland Dwarf girl named Hunny. It's summer, obviously, and my house does not have air conditioner (sucks, I know), so I've been having to use other methods to keep Hunny cool. I wet her ears frequently, and I try to keep the windows open at all times. She also has a plate (that I feed her breakfast and dinner on) that she loves to loaf out and flop on.I tried supplying her with a frozen water bottle, but she refused to flop near it and spent hours trying to dig and eat through it, which was ineffective, since it only worked her more up and made her ears hotter. I also tried a cooling mat that she might lay on, she just tried to eat the thing. Water is always readily available for her. It's in a approximately 6-7 oz bowl and she maybe drinks 1 and mayne a half of those a day. More sometimes, but it depends on the day. It's hard to tell, because if it was ever half full, I'd pour out the water, rinse the bowl, and then refill it. I've always been worried she wasnt drinking enough.
Well, recently, I've come to realize I had bed bugs (yeah, I know, fun). Not for too long, thankfully. Maybe 2 weeks, three at most (I timed the bites), and as soon as I figured it out, I had Hunny out of my room and to my grandmothers in a day. She's been at my grandma's place, in a play pen, for almost a week now, in air conditioning around 70-75 degrees (which is nice so I dont have to worry about her getting too hot). And I've come to realize she's now drinking much more water. I probably replace her bowl 4-6 times a day, and they're usually half way filled, sometimes a little less. I figured this was a good thing, until I looked up a few stiff and realized that rabbits can apparently over drink and that it might mean something is wrong?
Maybe I'm just paranoid. I mean, her poops are good, and she just saw the vet about 2 weeks ago, and the vet said she was all good and cleared.
She's eating around a 1/4 cup of pellets a day, give or take, and around 4 or 5 strings (stems?) of cilantro for dinner for the past 6 days or so.
I'm just super worried and anxious for her. She seems okay and as curious as ever. I'm just paranoid.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you for reading my rant.[emoji173]
(Ps. The hay feeder isnt full because she refuses to eat hay out of there. I, however, think she might like to chew on the wood, so I put a little hay in there to encourage chewing. She's lost interest in chewing stick the past few weeks, but that's another topic.)
Well, recently, I've come to realize I had bed bugs (yeah, I know, fun). Not for too long, thankfully. Maybe 2 weeks, three at most (I timed the bites), and as soon as I figured it out, I had Hunny out of my room and to my grandmothers in a day. She's been at my grandma's place, in a play pen, for almost a week now, in air conditioning around 70-75 degrees (which is nice so I dont have to worry about her getting too hot). And I've come to realize she's now drinking much more water. I probably replace her bowl 4-6 times a day, and they're usually half way filled, sometimes a little less. I figured this was a good thing, until I looked up a few stiff and realized that rabbits can apparently over drink and that it might mean something is wrong?
Maybe I'm just paranoid. I mean, her poops are good, and she just saw the vet about 2 weeks ago, and the vet said she was all good and cleared.
She's eating around a 1/4 cup of pellets a day, give or take, and around 4 or 5 strings (stems?) of cilantro for dinner for the past 6 days or so.
I'm just super worried and anxious for her. She seems okay and as curious as ever. I'm just paranoid.
Any advice is appreciated, thank you for reading my rant.[emoji173]
(Ps. The hay feeder isnt full because she refuses to eat hay out of there. I, however, think she might like to chew on the wood, so I put a little hay in there to encourage chewing. She's lost interest in chewing stick the past few weeks, but that's another topic.)
