[coolness]

Two Rabbit Questions:I have a 3 year-old Holland Lop (tomorrow is her birthday) who has some extremely bad stomach problems. We got her from a county fair almost 3 years ago and she has always had these problems. We only feed her the rabbit food and Timothy hay. She gets new food every day and a clean cage every three or four days. For some reason, she gets really bad diarrhea that gets stuck to her tail. She usually lives as a class pet at a preschool, but she spends the summer, spring break, and winter break at my home. We can't even give her a carrot or some celery as a treat because she can't tolerate it. Does she just have a sensitive stomach or is there a serious problem going on? Another problem is that she makes a ridiculous amount of noise at night. We recently moved her from a preschool classroom to a bedroom and I couldn't sleep at all last night! She was scratching the whole night. Is this normal or do I need to move her to a different room so I can get some sleep?

[SATAN]

You don't need a high caliber. Anything more than a BB gun will send the little critters to the great beyond.

[heterophobicgirl]

go to the source site and read about some of the herbal remedies they offer for a healthy rabbit. that ProBac Adult stuff is for intestinal problems.

[momx4]

you might want to ask a vet. my son had one ane she never had any problems like that. As for sleeping...I would move her.

[snapszen]

You should really get her to a vet. There could be so many things wrong that you don't even know about. Go to http://www.rabbit.org to find a chapter and see who they recommend you bring her to.

[sweet-cookie]

Have your rabbit checked out by a vet . She may have worms or even some ccoccideosis( parasite), causing the diarrhea. you did not say if she was otherwise fit ; But a vet will be able to examine the rabbit and see if any thing can be done to bring her digestion back to normal (Eg a dry round pellet stool) Hay And Rabbit food is fine but she also needs green food (NOT LETTUCE ) cauliflower trimmings , spinach , some lawn grass ,dandelion , sow thistle and red clover . introduce all new food == a bit at a time at first -- then use the green food ad lib, with the good hay and rabbit food (commercial) and clean water . The noise she makes at night is another matter . Rabbits are normally active at night , She may be trying to dig her way out! or be rearanging her bedding . Rabbits are better off in a large secure hutch out side, protected from extremes of weather .

[coorscowgirl101]

1 for the fisrt answer give her some blackberry leaves for the diarria *make sure its clean~8 only give her about 2 or three a day tell dirreas gone we used to do this for our show rabbitssecond like others said rabbits are active at night thery dig

[.eri]

Is Maloclusion painful for a rabbit?
Other then the discomfort of getting their teeth clipped.
Do they experiance any pain anywhere else?

My rabbit "looks worse then he feels" So the vet explained to me.
He is one sickly looking rabbit. I mean he's in GREAT spirits, Runs around, chases me all over, plays in the dirt, digging a million holes in the garden. You can tell he has fun, but because of his teeth sometimes he constantly drools, which then causes him to mat, then pull out his fur. I got this special shampoo for him though, which dries out the skin and allows regrowth of his fur, and it's worked very well. He just "looks ugly" haha.
I love him though.

Anyone know if he's as happy as he may seem?
People think I should put him down, but it's just by the way he looks.
I don't want to "murder" him.

[Chris]

If he's in great spirits and acts happy, even though he looks "bad" I'd keep him around. The people who simply look at him and think you should put him down don't see the fun that you both have.

[designspl]

My rabbit has experienced the same problem before with the diarrhea and I took it to the vet for examination and he ended up giving me some medication that cleared it up. I would give you the name of it if I could remember it. As for the scratching, it's pretty normal. Mine does it a lot probably more than usual. So another room might make it easier for you to sleep.