goddessofpeep
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Hello everyone. This is my first time on this forum, and I wish my first real post could be a happier one. Apologies for the length.
I have a 4(ish) month old Netherland Dwarf who's behaving strangely. I'm wondering if I should risk the stress of a trip to the vet or not.
She is currently in a spare bedroom that I'm working on rabbit proofing for her enjoyment. While the room is under construction, she's got a large cage to stay in, an exercise pen to play in, and we let her run around the safer areas of the house under supervision.
A few days ago my husband cleaned out her exercise pen for the first time, and I cleaned out her litter box in that pen. I put her in there to run around while I did work around the house. Several hours later, I became aware that the litter box was still empty of any droppings. This is really unusual for her, and she had been going fine that morning. She was using the box for urine, but nothing else. I took her out of the pen, massaged her belly, let her run around for a while, and she eventually started to go normally. She had been in her pen since about 2-3pm, and the first sign of droppings didn't happen until about 10pm. As soon as I put her in her cage, she was pooping fine.
Next day I find a decent amount of poop in her cage litter box, and I take her out to her pen again. Again she's not pooping for several hours, save for the "special" ones she eats. Again, put her in the cage, and she starts pooping again.
She's eating normally. She's active. I can't find any signs of pain in her. Her abdomen is the same as it always is, but she is not pooping at all outside of her cage. What she is producing looks normal, but she's been going for hours(sometimes 6+ hours) without a single regular dropping. She seems to have stopped the random poops(except in her cage), and she's not even pooping on my husband(a favorite pastime of hers).
She has plenty of hay. She had eaten a lot of pellets just before this problem started, but I cut back on them once it happened. She has always eaten a lot of hay(and anything else she can get her teeth around). She's been drinking like a champ, and she appears to be completely healthy except for the fact that she's not pooping the same way she was a few days ago. She still bites my husband as much as she ever did. She still goes crazy when we put her on the couch to play. She digs, she jumps, she runs, she eats, she binkies - she just doesn't poop outside her cage.
She had absolutely no problem with doing any of her business in the pen until it was cleaned. If it wasn't for the long time she's been going without pooping, I wouldn't be worried. Did cleaning out the pen upset her, or is a trip to the vet in order?
I have a 4(ish) month old Netherland Dwarf who's behaving strangely. I'm wondering if I should risk the stress of a trip to the vet or not.
She is currently in a spare bedroom that I'm working on rabbit proofing for her enjoyment. While the room is under construction, she's got a large cage to stay in, an exercise pen to play in, and we let her run around the safer areas of the house under supervision.
A few days ago my husband cleaned out her exercise pen for the first time, and I cleaned out her litter box in that pen. I put her in there to run around while I did work around the house. Several hours later, I became aware that the litter box was still empty of any droppings. This is really unusual for her, and she had been going fine that morning. She was using the box for urine, but nothing else. I took her out of the pen, massaged her belly, let her run around for a while, and she eventually started to go normally. She had been in her pen since about 2-3pm, and the first sign of droppings didn't happen until about 10pm. As soon as I put her in her cage, she was pooping fine.
Next day I find a decent amount of poop in her cage litter box, and I take her out to her pen again. Again she's not pooping for several hours, save for the "special" ones she eats. Again, put her in the cage, and she starts pooping again.
She's eating normally. She's active. I can't find any signs of pain in her. Her abdomen is the same as it always is, but she is not pooping at all outside of her cage. What she is producing looks normal, but she's been going for hours(sometimes 6+ hours) without a single regular dropping. She seems to have stopped the random poops(except in her cage), and she's not even pooping on my husband(a favorite pastime of hers).
She has plenty of hay. She had eaten a lot of pellets just before this problem started, but I cut back on them once it happened. She has always eaten a lot of hay(and anything else she can get her teeth around). She's been drinking like a champ, and she appears to be completely healthy except for the fact that she's not pooping the same way she was a few days ago. She still bites my husband as much as she ever did. She still goes crazy when we put her on the couch to play. She digs, she jumps, she runs, she eats, she binkies - she just doesn't poop outside her cage.
She had absolutely no problem with doing any of her business in the pen until it was cleaned. If it wasn't for the long time she's been going without pooping, I wouldn't be worried. Did cleaning out the pen upset her, or is a trip to the vet in order?
