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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A The Poopscapades

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    • redbunbun
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        A week or so after she came to us, I started worrying about my new rabbit Sukka’s (aged ~13 weeks) poop. It was very mushy and extremely smelly, like unformed cecals, and I couldn’t chalk it up to her being stressed out anymore. Her poops weren’t that bad right in the beginning, though I don’t really have a photo to compare. I just remember thinking some of her poops were very weirdly-shaped, and some of them were very large in comparison to my other rabbit.

        Regardless, she’d step in the horrid smelly mess and spread it around the floor of her crate, and everything was just very messy. I assumed it was because where she came from her pellet intake wasn’t monitored very carefully, so when I started giving her what her breeder had recommended (2dl of the same mix the breeder had given her), her stomach got upset. I cut her pellets down to less than a teaspoon last Monday, so a week from tomorrow, and I stopped giving her anything fresh (her previous owner had already introduced her to fresh greens before she came to me).

        Her poops have gotten a lot better! Now, instead of unformed piles of stink, they’re almost normal. We cleaned up her poopy butt and cage, and she hasn’t re-soiled herself. However, her poops now vary greatly in shape and size, aren’t all nice and uniform like they should be, and are still somewhat “moist” compared to regular rabbit poop. This first picture is her poops two days after I cut down her pellets, the second picture is from earlier today.

           

        The poop in the lower corner of the right picture (from today) has been stepped on and is flattened. It doesn’t exactly crumble like it should, it just… smooshes?

        I’m going to stop giving her even the teaspoon of pellets now, and I’ll probably be phoning the vet as soon as I get my schedule for the next week from work to set up an appointment. What I’m mostly concerned about right now is – could this be coccidia? Her beginning poops were very squishy and smelly, rabbity diarrhea, but could it still be coccidia even if her poop has gotten better as a result of a fixed diet? If so, is my other rabbit in danger? They haven’t been in the same space together, but they have had some little contact through the bars of Sukka’s crate, and they share some of the same running space. I’ve always cleaned up all of Sukka’s droppings before releasing my other rabbit, of course, and disinfected underneath the droppings with white vinegar, but that may not have been enough, I suppose.

        As far as behavior goes, both of the bunnies are behaving very normally. Sukka eats and drinks, does some little binkies, lounges around peacefully, etc. Tossu, my other rabbit, behaves as he always has, and so far his poops have stayed normal, though a little darker than usual, which I’ve chalked up to us having had a different sort of hay recently, grass hay compared to our normal timothy, due to a car malfunction that has stopped me from picking up a bale from our usual hay supplier. He has also gotten a little pee stain behind his back legs, but I assume that’s from the time he peed outside Sukka’s cage (on linoleum) to mark his territory, which isn’t nearly as neat as peeing on bedding in a litter box.

         

        IN SHORT, if someone doesn’t want to read my novella (I don’t blame you ): Can coccidia be “treated” by a change in diet, so that the bunny’s poops return closer to normal in response to being fed more hay? Or does that having happened prove this isn’t coccidia, and is probably something more diet-related? I’ve also wondered about the possibility of megacolon, since Sukka is a charlie, but I was led to believe that megacolon wouldn’t present symptoms in rabbits this young.

         

        Why must rabbit health concerns stress us bunny-lovers so much?


      • redbunbun
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          I have a time to see the vet on Wednesday, if only I can get my work schedule cleared for that day. Here’s hoping.

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