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Rabbit twitching (with video)

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Stator

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This is about Roo again. (She's 11 and arthritic, on Metacam and Tramadol)
In the evening sometimes she starts twitching. (At this point she's had her Metacam but is due Tramadol in a couple hours)
Her third eye becomes visible, her head twitches upwards and her cheek twitches too.
You can see it happening in this video, it gets worse about half way through

(I don't like watching this, you might not want to watch it either)

I'm not sure what to do when this happens.
I'm not sure how conscious she is, if she is half sleeping or not.
Would you try and wake her up or just leave her alone?

It's hard not to, but she does get annoyed if I touch her.
 
Stator said:
This is about Roo again. (She's 11 and arthritic, on Metacam and Tramadol)
In the evening sometimes she starts twitching. (At this point she's had her Metacam but is due Tramadol in a couple hours)
Her third eye becomes visible, her head twitches upwards and her cheek twitches too.
You can see it happening in this video, it gets worse about half way through

(I don't like watching this, you might not want to watch it either)

I'm not sure what to do when this happens.
I'm not sure how conscious she is, if she is half sleeping or not.
Would you try and wake her up or just leave her alone?

It's hard not to, but she does get annoyed if I touch her.
Click to expand...

She's dreaming- REM sleep phase. Rabbits can be asleep but their eyes remain open.
 
My bunnies do that when they're totally chilled out and sleeping, sometimes their eyes aren't fully shut but you can tell they're asleep [emoji38]
 
Lopsy does this too: he sleep-eats, a chewing action that shows he's dreaming he's eating a million bananas or something... Sometimes he sleep-runs, if he's on his side. It's kinda weird, but totally Lopsy :) He doesn't shut his eyes either, unless he's indoors :)
 
My bridge boy Rio also twitched his eyes,nose,paws etc.Having a lovely dream I always thought (probably eating treats).;)
 
My Charlie bear would rock around in the bunny loaf postion. We used to call this the bunny "roller coaster"

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