Nichelette
New Kit
Hi - I'm new here and was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with their rabbit/has any ideas I can try.
Last week I noticed that my bunny wasn't as enthusiastic about eating as usual (particularly her pellets which she would usually make a bee line for), but she was still eating enough hay etc to be okay. I thought she needed a dental so I booked her in and she had them done last Friday morning. The vet said she had small spurs but wasn't in too bad a state. She came around okay and was eating hay, herbs and so on. She actually seemed to come to quicker than in the past.
Now it has nearly been a week since and she still isn't very interested in her pellets but is eating enough to be okay in terms of what is going in and coming out of her. It's not as much as I'd like but it's not terrible either and I'm keeping a major eye on what is going in and out. She is eating harder foods so I don't believe she is in pain, but equally I don't feel like she is being her usual self in eating terms and can't figure out why she would be behaving like this as she is showing pretty much no interest in her pellets unless I hand feed her them individually, and is the same with locust beans which she would previously wolf down too.
Does anyone have any idea why she might be doing this and how I can get her eating pellets properly again?
I wonder if the not eating pellets pre dental was because she had decided she wasn't interested in them more than anything else, and still feels the same way about them?
Thanks in advance..
Last week I noticed that my bunny wasn't as enthusiastic about eating as usual (particularly her pellets which she would usually make a bee line for), but she was still eating enough hay etc to be okay. I thought she needed a dental so I booked her in and she had them done last Friday morning. The vet said she had small spurs but wasn't in too bad a state. She came around okay and was eating hay, herbs and so on. She actually seemed to come to quicker than in the past.
Now it has nearly been a week since and she still isn't very interested in her pellets but is eating enough to be okay in terms of what is going in and coming out of her. It's not as much as I'd like but it's not terrible either and I'm keeping a major eye on what is going in and out. She is eating harder foods so I don't believe she is in pain, but equally I don't feel like she is being her usual self in eating terms and can't figure out why she would be behaving like this as she is showing pretty much no interest in her pellets unless I hand feed her them individually, and is the same with locust beans which she would previously wolf down too.
Does anyone have any idea why she might be doing this and how I can get her eating pellets properly again?
I wonder if the not eating pellets pre dental was because she had decided she wasn't interested in them more than anything else, and still feels the same way about them?
Thanks in advance..