Hi I was hoping somebody would be able to help, I know this post is long, sorry, but please read if you have five minutes as i'm really worried about my rabbit.
I have a Mini Lop Buck, he is just over 13 months old and is kept as a house rabbit. He is all up to date with his jabs, and was neutered just under a month ago. The day after he was neutered, he was not eating, drinking, pooping or urinating, so I took him back to the vets, who looked after him for the day, liquid fed him and then I took him home and he was back to normal (well a bit quiet for a couple of days, but soon back to his usual self causing mischief and jumping about).
This week he has been moulting a lot, and had been passing more cecotropes than usual, but i had been keeping my eye on him and his behaviour was as usual and he was perky and jumping about. I also made sure his normal poops weren't strung together from digesting fur, and everything seemed fine.
Today I came home from work, and he was lying on his saw dust, which he never does, he only lays on his plastic ledge. I took him out of his cage to have a run around and to groom him to try and get rid of some of this fur he is moulting (which I have been doing all week). While I was doing this he urinated on my bed, he hasn't urinated outside of his cage since he was tiny, he is very well trained and only goes in his litter tray in his cage. I decided to take him to another room in the house to run around in where there is more space to run around, however, he kept coming up to me and snuggling up on my lap, which is very out of character for him, the only time he is ever this needy to me is when we go to the vets, otherwise he's mr independent. Anyway I put a matt down on the floor as I thought it may be because the floor was very cold as it is stone. He walked around a bit, found the ledge under the coffee table and just sat there before I took him back upstairs.
I put him back on my bed for a second to give him a once over with the brush before putting him in his cage, and he urinated again, very unlike him. (don't worry I have obviously changed the sheets)
I gave him fresh food (although he still had food left from this morning) and fresh water which he has not touched, and he is still lying still on the sawdust not moving or doing anything.
I am very worried about him, I don't know if he's ingested fur from grooming himself, or if it is to do with the operation last month, or if these things are totally non related.
I will take him to the vets tomorrow, but I was just wondering if anybody had any advice in the meantime, or if you think this sounds like anything in particular.
My dad has been doing some building work on the heating in the room next door tonight, so it has been quite loud, although he was lying on the floor of his cage before this started so i don't think it's to do with that.
I'm sorry for the long post, I just wanted to get everything across so I don't miss anything important out.
Thank you!
Plom3
I have a Mini Lop Buck, he is just over 13 months old and is kept as a house rabbit. He is all up to date with his jabs, and was neutered just under a month ago. The day after he was neutered, he was not eating, drinking, pooping or urinating, so I took him back to the vets, who looked after him for the day, liquid fed him and then I took him home and he was back to normal (well a bit quiet for a couple of days, but soon back to his usual self causing mischief and jumping about).
This week he has been moulting a lot, and had been passing more cecotropes than usual, but i had been keeping my eye on him and his behaviour was as usual and he was perky and jumping about. I also made sure his normal poops weren't strung together from digesting fur, and everything seemed fine.
Today I came home from work, and he was lying on his saw dust, which he never does, he only lays on his plastic ledge. I took him out of his cage to have a run around and to groom him to try and get rid of some of this fur he is moulting (which I have been doing all week). While I was doing this he urinated on my bed, he hasn't urinated outside of his cage since he was tiny, he is very well trained and only goes in his litter tray in his cage. I decided to take him to another room in the house to run around in where there is more space to run around, however, he kept coming up to me and snuggling up on my lap, which is very out of character for him, the only time he is ever this needy to me is when we go to the vets, otherwise he's mr independent. Anyway I put a matt down on the floor as I thought it may be because the floor was very cold as it is stone. He walked around a bit, found the ledge under the coffee table and just sat there before I took him back upstairs.
I put him back on my bed for a second to give him a once over with the brush before putting him in his cage, and he urinated again, very unlike him. (don't worry I have obviously changed the sheets)
I gave him fresh food (although he still had food left from this morning) and fresh water which he has not touched, and he is still lying still on the sawdust not moving or doing anything.
I am very worried about him, I don't know if he's ingested fur from grooming himself, or if it is to do with the operation last month, or if these things are totally non related.
I will take him to the vets tomorrow, but I was just wondering if anybody had any advice in the meantime, or if you think this sounds like anything in particular.
My dad has been doing some building work on the heating in the room next door tonight, so it has been quite loud, although he was lying on the floor of his cage before this started so i don't think it's to do with that.
I'm sorry for the long post, I just wanted to get everything across so I don't miss anything important out.
Thank you!
Plom3