Hi.
We have two Netherland Dwarf house rabbits. This morning, one of them started acting oddly flopping and rolling around - basically doing a 'bunny flop' over and over. She was then laying fully stretched out, which is abnormal behaviour for her (the other one does this, but this one usually sits in a ball). Moreover, she didn't even move when I approached her in this position and just let me stroke her (normally neither of them do this). Then, whilst laying stretched out, she started circling round with her back legs - it looked like she was trying to get up but her back legs wouldn't support her. However, all of this lasted maybe 10 minutes, then I let them out fora run around the lounge and she was running around just as normal.
She has not touched her breakfast this morning, and is now laying flopped out again. I don't know if this is something I should worry about or not - it is definitely not normal behaviour for her. We let them out in the garden for an hour yesterday, but they were under close supervision and I'm not aware of anything that's happened to her that could be causing this. They have both been sprayed with Rearguard and no obvious signs of anything.
Any advice would be gratefully received - I don't want to rush her off to the vets only to have her bahave completely normally once we get there!!
Thanks.
esupi
We have two Netherland Dwarf house rabbits. This morning, one of them started acting oddly flopping and rolling around - basically doing a 'bunny flop' over and over. She was then laying fully stretched out, which is abnormal behaviour for her (the other one does this, but this one usually sits in a ball). Moreover, she didn't even move when I approached her in this position and just let me stroke her (normally neither of them do this). Then, whilst laying stretched out, she started circling round with her back legs - it looked like she was trying to get up but her back legs wouldn't support her. However, all of this lasted maybe 10 minutes, then I let them out fora run around the lounge and she was running around just as normal.
She has not touched her breakfast this morning, and is now laying flopped out again. I don't know if this is something I should worry about or not - it is definitely not normal behaviour for her. We let them out in the garden for an hour yesterday, but they were under close supervision and I'm not aware of anything that's happened to her that could be causing this. They have both been sprayed with Rearguard and no obvious signs of anything.
Any advice would be gratefully received - I don't want to rush her off to the vets only to have her bahave completely normally once we get there!!
Thanks.
esupi