Moonstone
Warren Scout
On a routine vet visit today, the nurse we saw - who seemed to know a lot about rabbits - said I should start using Rearguard on both my bunnies.
I've never used it before and reading the bottle about how toxic it is makes me nervous. How on earth do you stop them from licking it?
Archie, my mini lop, is nearly 9 years old and has pretty much always had a bit of a messy bottom. Millie, who is nearly 10, generally keeps hers clean. I'm really in two minds about this, particularly with Millie but also Archie gets quite affronted when humans do things to his body or restrain him. Even in a burrito, he's a handful. Gorgeously sweet and friendly in all other situations but prone to frenzies of clothes-biting if he feels he isn't getting his point across about wanting you to let go of him.
They don't really get flies in their shed, I keep it very shaded in summer and it's quite dark in there, I think flies are drawn to light. Neither of them have medical problems (except Archie is deaf), I'm told they are not overweight. When they leave cecotropes, I change their diets until they stop. This is how they're now at the point they only eat 10 pellets of Science Selective rabbit food a day each, divided into two doses. In hot weather I change the litter tray twice a day.
I don't like the thought of putting chemicals on them when they aren't sick. But I can't check on them every two hours every day and it must be a nightmare to lose them that way.
I really need someone to say there's a natural alternative that works just as well!!!!
I've never used it before and reading the bottle about how toxic it is makes me nervous. How on earth do you stop them from licking it?
Archie, my mini lop, is nearly 9 years old and has pretty much always had a bit of a messy bottom. Millie, who is nearly 10, generally keeps hers clean. I'm really in two minds about this, particularly with Millie but also Archie gets quite affronted when humans do things to his body or restrain him. Even in a burrito, he's a handful. Gorgeously sweet and friendly in all other situations but prone to frenzies of clothes-biting if he feels he isn't getting his point across about wanting you to let go of him.
They don't really get flies in their shed, I keep it very shaded in summer and it's quite dark in there, I think flies are drawn to light. Neither of them have medical problems (except Archie is deaf), I'm told they are not overweight. When they leave cecotropes, I change their diets until they stop. This is how they're now at the point they only eat 10 pellets of Science Selective rabbit food a day each, divided into two doses. In hot weather I change the litter tray twice a day.
I don't like the thought of putting chemicals on them when they aren't sick. But I can't check on them every two hours every day and it must be a nightmare to lose them that way.
I really need someone to say there's a natural alternative that works just as well!!!!