Ways to reduce stress induced GI stasis

Hi, I have a spayed female bunny who is almost two. She is naturally a very nervous and anxious rabbit, and gets stressed easily. She is not even two years old until June and has already gone into stasis twice (and a third if you want to count it but this was a mild and short case as a result of a long car ride). The most recent time was yesterday, and I still don’t fully know the cause. She had no change in diet and is very healthy as I am strict in what she eats (80% Timothy hay, 10% fresh veg, 5% nuggets and 5% treats). She also doesn’t seem to have eaten something she shouldn’t have that may have caused stasis as I have removed any non-edible materials that she seemed to like to nibble in the past. But anyways, she went into stasis overnight, luckily the next morning we noticed immediately when she didn’t touch her nuggets which she usually loves so we got her to the vet at 9am and she seemed to slowly recover after being given guy stimulants and pain relief, and is almost completely normal this morning (eating and moving around as usual). So my main question is if anyone has tips to reduce anxiety as I think this could have been the cause yesterday, as well as just making her life more stress-free. She already has a neutered male companion who is the complete opposite of her (laid back, submissive and confident), and she is a free roam house rabbit in our large kitchen where she has a good amount of toys and shelter/hidey-houses. I have already bought some of the pet remedy de-stress spray as I bought this for car rides to help her calm a little so I was thinking of spraying some of this around and on her blankets etc. to see if this help. Any other ideas?

you also get a pet remedy diffuser, you plug it in and it sprays occasionally. I found it really helpful as a constant compared to the spray which you have to keep redoing. it is a bit smelly at first but it then tapers off, so its just if you're able to deal with that initial smell.

outside of that, it really sounds like you're doing all that you can for her bless. I have a naturally jumpy rabbit but thankfully he never goes into stasis, and really, he's just a drama queen!!

does she have a boyfriend. Buns get a lot of confidence from each other

binkyCodie said:

you also get a pet remedy diffuser, you plug it in and it sprays occasionally. I found it really helpful as a constant compared to the spray which you have to keep redoing. it is a bit smelly at first but it then tapers off, so its just if you're able to deal with that initial smell.

outside of that, it really sounds like you're doing all that you can for her bless. I have a naturally jumpy rabbit but thankfully he never goes into stasis, and really, he's just a drama queen!!

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Great idea. I will look into that, thank you! And yes, all that I can think of, anyways.

joey&boo said:

does she have a boyfriend. Buns get a lot of confidence from each other

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Yes she does. As I mentioned in my post, she has a neutered male companion. I would say that he has given her some confidence but she is still inherently nervous and easily spooked.

Is she spayed and if so did the stasis episodes start after her spay ?

Does she drink well ? Is her wee output normal with no signs of sludge/milky coloured 'gritty' wee ?

Jack's-Jane said:

Is she spayed and if so did the stasis episodes start after her spay ?

Does she drink well ? Is her wee output normal with no signs of sludge/milky coloured 'gritty' wee ?

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Yes she is spayed, and I think the first stasis episode was after she was spayed, but this is probably because she was fairly young when she was spayed and we hadn’t had her long before she was done.

Yes she drinks completely fine and her wee is normal with no signs like that or other abnormalities.