My Bunny isn’t acting like herself?

[Jess]

Last week my partner and I brought home 2 gorgeous 10week old minilop siblings. Yesterday we took them to the vet for the first time to have a check up, injections, and find out their genders. They’re both girls. The first is BB. She’s been doing great, highly motivated by food and a little more shy than her sister. She was very well behaved at the vet and easy to handle. Her sister, Texas, on the other hand. She is usually a very curious and happy baby. Always coming to greet us and binkying around. She had a bit of a rough time yesterday at the vet, running and jumping trying to get away. Especially after having her temperature taken (poor baby). She was acting fine yesterday when we brought her home but today she’s not herself. She’s withdrawn and not at all adventurous. It could be a culmination of things but I can’t figure it out. Is she sick? Is she just mad at us? We also gave them a different (slightly smaller) letterbox today after we found it almost impossible to clean the old big one regularly enough. Plus it probably hasn’t helped that we had to keep them in their hutch longer than usual today because we had to go out of town for a family event. Is she mad that I took away her normal litter box maybe? I’m totally stumped. She’s eating and drinking normally and when I got home I did notice that one of them had a bit of a runny poo incident but I figured that’s just because we fed them a bit too much spinach yesterday. Any ideas?

[skysblue]

10 weeks might be too early for vegetables . I remember my vet said not to give any until like 4 months or 6 months.
Otherwise, keep monitoring her.

[tobyluv]

The combination of the vet visit, the change in litter box and the fact that your bunnies were pent up for a longer time, is probably the reason that your bunny is quieter and not herself.

skyblue is correct about 10 weeks old maybe being too early for greens/veggies. Most people suggest waiting until a bunny is 12 weeks old. You have to start slowly and only give one veggie a week, then the next week you can try a second veggie, and so on. And, spinach is one of the veggies that should be limited. Here are 2 good articles on veggies and which should be given less often:

http://rabbit.org/suggested-vegetables-and-fruits-for-a-rabbit-diet/

https://binkybunny.com/BUNNYINFO/VeggieList/tabid/144/Default.aspx

As your bunnies mature, you may have to separate them until they have been spayed. Once the hormones start up, that can bring aggression. Rabbits can fight and can severely injure each other. That is not a given, but it is certainly a possibility.

[Jess]

Thanks guys. I called my vet this morning just to put my mind at ease. She’s still eating and drinking and her poop has gone mostly back to normal. I think we went a bit too-much-too-quick with the veggies. She’s back on a strictly hay diet with a couple of pellets as treats, and if she gets worse or no better by tomorrow I’ll take her back into the vet for a check up. ??

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