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Snowy1997

Young Bun
My 5 month old female rabbit was neutered 10 - 12 days ago.

She is fine.

She is eating, but i am worried about the fact that she is not really drinking much each day.

I have tried it in a bowl and i have tried the normal drink bottle that you attach to the hutch and I am changing the water each day to make sure that she has clean drinking water.

How can i make her drink more?

Why isnt she drinking very much?

Sometimes its not even noticable what she has drunken each day.
 
ebony has recently started drinking water regularly she's 18 months but as her diet is mainly hay and veg she was getting her fluid from that she only started drinking it after staying at a boarders i think she copied another rabbit:D
 
She is probably getting the majority of her fluids fromt he grass and vegs by the sounds of it, she is probably having a sneaky drink when you are not around.
You can check that she is not in desperate dehydration by tenting the skin, like in humans it should spring back if there she is not dehydrated.
 
Snowy1997 said:
Yeah she does but, apart from that she doesnt really drink any of the water from her water bottle .
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I wouldn't worry about it if her main food is grass. She'll get quite enough fluids from that unless it's very hot. (Wild rabbits don't drink water)

Skin tenting is a very late sign of severe dehydration. If she wees in a tray, I find that the best way to assess hydration, + starting to get very chalky wee with no changes in diet.

Many buns drink better from a bowl than a bottle if there's space for it.
 
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