Bottled water?

My little Pepper has been having recurring bladder issues and has been on several courses of antibiotics since the end of last year. The Vet asked me to restrict high-calcium veg, which I did (that helped) and thankfully there doesn’t appear to be any sludge.

I have just seen her lift her bum higher than usual again, which is how I know she’s going to be feeling poorly soon.

I’ve been wondering if the tap water in their bowl has something to do with it - does anyone give their bun bottled water and if so, which brand?

Thanxx

Beau Belle said:

My little Pepper has been having recurring bladder issues and has been on several courses of antibiotics since the end of last year. The Vet asked me to restrict high-calcium veg, which I did (that helped) and thankfully there doesn’t appear to be any sludge.

I have just seen her lift her bum higher than usual again, which is how I know she’s going to be feeling poorly soon.

I’ve been wondering if the tap water in their bowl has something to do with it - does anyone give their bun bottled water and if so, which brand?

Thanxx

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We do only bottled water here, Tesco ashbeck is low in calcium, I use that - although the one bun who actually needs low calcium won't drink it, she likes Highland spring, so she has that [emoji38]


Hope everything will be okay for Pepper x


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Graciee said:

We do only bottled water here, Tesco ashbeck is low in calcium, I use that - although the one bun who actually needs low calcium won't drink it, she likes Highland spring, so she has that [emoji38]


Hope everything will be okay for Pepper x


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Preferences - how cute!

Is it because you don’t like tap water or because they have sensitive bladders?

Thank you for sharing xx

We use Tesco Ashback here too, our tap water is high calcium and we had issues with recurrent UTIs, so we switched and haven't had as many problems

Beau Belle said:

Preferences - how cute!

Is it because you don’t like tap water or because they have sensitive bladders?

Thank you for sharing xx

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Yea Clementine is a very particular, fussy rabbit [emoji38]

We have very hard tap water and I just didn't like the idea of it, when Clementine got unwell though she was already on a low calcium water, but she drinks much more of the Highland spring. Aslong as she drinks lots I'm fine with it [emoji38] xx

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Tescos Ashbeck and Volvic are virtually the same calcium content (very low, and easy to get hold of in shops).

We are a volvic family here as I have had bladder problems with past bunnies

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Thank you for all replies - we’ve bought some bottled water this morning so will give it a go x

Speaking of calcium content of water (which is my favourite subject :lol: ), I have a junior scientist experiment planned. I suddenly realised that I could do a rough and ready calcium measurement with the test strips I bought after we got our water softener. Basically, I want to see what can be achieved with a Brita filter on multiple filterings. I've already measured the Volvic water.

Trouble is, my Brita filter has gone missing. So I'm going to buy another today... Watch this space! :lol:

SarahP said:

Speaking of calcium content of water (which is my favourite subject [emoji38] ), I have a junior scientist experiment planned. I suddenly realised that I could do a rough and ready calcium measurement with the test strips I bought after we got our water softener. Basically, I want to see what can be achieved with a Brita filter on multiple filterings. I've already measured the Volvic water.

Trouble is, my Brita filter has gone missing. So I'm going to buy another today... Watch this space! [emoji38]

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What was your findings with volvic?

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I've done my little experiment, and.... well, it's a bit annoying, as my strips just aren't accurate enough at the lower range of calcium. So I can't be anywhere near so exact as I want. But, the Brita filter did a lot better than I thought it would.

My tap water = between 120 and 250 ppm, so hard to very hard
Brita filtered once = about 25 ppm
Brita filtered twice = 0 - 25 ppm (this is an annoyingly large range)
Volvic = 0 - 25 ppm

So basically, I wouldn't want to say that the Brita twice filtered water was as low in calcium as the Volvic, as I don't think it was. But it did do a really good job at reducing it down. And I also think that the Brita twice filtered water was probably lower in calcium than something like Highland Spring.

edit: also bear in mind that the Brita was a brand new filter, so ought to be at its best.

Interesting. I might get a filter jug.

There’s been no interest in the water fountain or the Volvic so far, which surprises me; they usually investigate anything new sharpish.

I never thought the Brita filters much cop up to now, because I had to descale my kettle a lot, even with a Brita filter. But, the key thing I think is to filter it through more than once if you have very hard water.