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Muscle spasm or hiccups?

KCG

KCG

Warren Veteran
Hello everybody,
Cookie is 7 months old. Cookie has a strange situation, I don't fully understand what happened. Cookie always does this behavior when awakening from sleep. But other times he never, only doing it when he wake up. Muscle spasm or hiccups..??

He's been doing this since he was a baby. He doesn't seem to hurt. But this behavior is very strong. When he do it next to me on the sofa, the seat is shaken. I'm giving a video link.

https://streamable.com/va1zd3
 
One of my previous bunnies did this as well, quite often. Like Cookie he most often did it after a sleep. Most of the times directly after a big yawn. We always thought it looked like hiccups. Our theory was that he swallowed some air or something like that since most of the times he had yawned just before. But I don't know if we were right. He didn't seem to be bothered by it at all :)
Our present bunny has never done anything like it :)
 
Walli said:
One of my previous bunnies did this as well, quite often. Like Cookie he most often did it after a sleep. Most of the times directly after a big yawn. We always thought it looked like hiccups. Our theory was that he swallowed some air or something like that since most of the times he had yawned just before. But I don't know if we were right. He didn't seem to be bothered by it at all :)
Our present bunny has never done anything like it :)
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Cookie always do while yawning. This answer relieved me, thanks. :)
 
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