PickleLily
New Kit
Hello,
New to the forum, and I guess like many I'm joining up now because I have a worry about one of my little ones.
We have a 14 month old lop/lionhead cross called Lily (though she looks like a slightly fluffier lop) and she drinks water from a bowl, often getting bits on her face and down her front. Not too much though, I wouldn't say it was a massive percentage of what water is consumed. I don't know though, very hard to gauge.
She usually drinks 200-250ml a day, though we had a spell a few months back where she drank 300-400ml for about a week. Anyway, this week she's back to drinking up to 400ml a day and I've started to become worried about it. We lost her brother a year ago with a liver infection and the only clue we had to that was the sheer amount of water he drank.
We took Lily into the rabbit-savvy vet this week for her yearly jabs and I mentioned my concerns that she was drinking twice as much as usual. He didn't seem overly worried at all, her weight is stable (1.7kg) and she eats, poos and runs around the same as any other healthy rabbit.
I just wanted to ask people with a lot of experience if I'm right in being worried or if the heartbreak of losing her brother has made me hyper-sensitive to this sort of thing?
Many thanks.
New to the forum, and I guess like many I'm joining up now because I have a worry about one of my little ones.
We have a 14 month old lop/lionhead cross called Lily (though she looks like a slightly fluffier lop) and she drinks water from a bowl, often getting bits on her face and down her front. Not too much though, I wouldn't say it was a massive percentage of what water is consumed. I don't know though, very hard to gauge.
She usually drinks 200-250ml a day, though we had a spell a few months back where she drank 300-400ml for about a week. Anyway, this week she's back to drinking up to 400ml a day and I've started to become worried about it. We lost her brother a year ago with a liver infection and the only clue we had to that was the sheer amount of water he drank.
We took Lily into the rabbit-savvy vet this week for her yearly jabs and I mentioned my concerns that she was drinking twice as much as usual. He didn't seem overly worried at all, her weight is stable (1.7kg) and she eats, poos and runs around the same as any other healthy rabbit.
I just wanted to ask people with a lot of experience if I'm right in being worried or if the heartbreak of losing her brother has made me hyper-sensitive to this sort of thing?
Many thanks.
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