Sarah1989
Warren Veteran
My OH was in the bunny room the other day when I was giving them their dinner and he said both Blueberry & Slipper looked like they'd lost weight. I see them all the time so I don't notice, but due to his allergies he doesn't go in their room very often and so he rarely sees them.
He says he thought they were overweight before and that they look better now, nice and sleek, but it's made me worry about them. I can't tell if they're underweight or an ideal weight. They weren't overweight to begin with as the vet was happy with them last time they were there (September).
I've searched the net for ideal weights, but Slipper is a cross breed so that's not going to help. On here, I've seen diagrams where you go on their appearance rather than weight, but I don't know if I'm now imagining things out of sheer paranoia or if there is something genuinely wrong with them. By that I mean I can feel their bones, but I don't know if that's a good or bad thing as an ideal weight on the diagram says we can feel bones, but if we feel too much, it's bad. How much is too much?
They have unlimited hay, an egg cupful of pellets each at night and some herbs/veg/fruit for breakfast so I'm sure their diet is ok and I'm not over or under feeding :?
I'm going to get all the bunnies weighed somehow and I'll call the vet to get their weights when they were last there to compare.
I was worried about Blueberry last summer, I was sure he wasn't right and I took him to the vets and he had a good health check and was pronounced fine, so I put it down to paranoia on my behalf and got on with things. But that niggling feeling just won't go away. He looks and acts perfectly fine so it's not like I can say "this is what's bothering me", there's just this feeling I have that something's not right and my OH saying that has worried me all over again and that there is something wrong and now it's got Slipper too.
Any advice?
He says he thought they were overweight before and that they look better now, nice and sleek, but it's made me worry about them. I can't tell if they're underweight or an ideal weight. They weren't overweight to begin with as the vet was happy with them last time they were there (September).
I've searched the net for ideal weights, but Slipper is a cross breed so that's not going to help. On here, I've seen diagrams where you go on their appearance rather than weight, but I don't know if I'm now imagining things out of sheer paranoia or if there is something genuinely wrong with them. By that I mean I can feel their bones, but I don't know if that's a good or bad thing as an ideal weight on the diagram says we can feel bones, but if we feel too much, it's bad. How much is too much?
They have unlimited hay, an egg cupful of pellets each at night and some herbs/veg/fruit for breakfast so I'm sure their diet is ok and I'm not over or under feeding :?
I'm going to get all the bunnies weighed somehow and I'll call the vet to get their weights when they were last there to compare.
I was worried about Blueberry last summer, I was sure he wasn't right and I took him to the vets and he had a good health check and was pronounced fine, so I put it down to paranoia on my behalf and got on with things. But that niggling feeling just won't go away. He looks and acts perfectly fine so it's not like I can say "this is what's bothering me", there's just this feeling I have that something's not right and my OH saying that has worried me all over again and that there is something wrong and now it's got Slipper too.
Any advice?
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