Hurricane and out of bunny pelets!!!help

[Hope]

I have a Rex rabbit and I am down here in Houston in the hurricane storm and unable to get to a store and I have ran out of rabbit pellets .I have Timothy hay and I was unable to buy produce . I Only some apples a banana and some spinach .Will my Bunny be OK with just eating the hay and the apples I’m not sure whenever I will be to get to the store is there anything else that I could feed him in the meantime I don’t want to harm him by feeding him the wrong thing .

[spunkysmokey]

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[DanaNM]

So sorry! Hoping you stay OK down there. 

Hay and water should be OK short term, as hay is the most important part of the diet.  I would skip the apples and banana, as they are just sugar and might do more harm than good. A little spinach would be fine, but don’t over-do it. 

 

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[joea64]

Hope everything’s good down there and you and bun didn’t get flooded! Bunny can get along very well on hay and water for a while – like DanaNM said, those two items are the core of a healthy rabbit’s diet so as long as you have enough hay until you can get to the stores again you should be all right. I’d advise you to contact local rabbit resources but I imagine they’re all having their own problems right now; however House Rabbit Resource Network over in Austin might be able to provide advice.

[Deleted User]

Just hay should be fine short term. The pellets just provide nutrients that they don’t get from hay. As long as you can reintroduce them soon, I think that will be fine. As Dana said, it’s probably best not to offer the fruit because it’s just sugar and won’t really contribute anything nutritionally.

It looks totally nuts over there?! I live in FL so I have definitely been through my fair share of hurricanes, and all of my family lives near New Orleans so we knew first hand of the catastrophe of Katrina. I hope you and bun stay safe!!

[joea64]

One might not necessarily think it for someone who lives as far inland as I do, but every few years hurricanes come through the metro Washington, D.C. area and some of them really do a number. I remember back about 14 years ago in 2003, we had a really bad one – I forget what it was named – and not only did I have to stay home from work because the office was closed due to the local water treatment plant’s having been messed up, but a big tree got blown down right outside where I was living at the time.

I get the feeling this might be a cold, snowy winter in my area – it’s already unusually cool for late August this week – so I must make particular notes to stock up on bunny provender (hay, salad, pellets) when it looks like a blizzard might be coming. Last year (2016) I was snowed in for three days because of the storm we call “Snowzilla” in these parts!

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Posted By joea64 on 8/29/2017 8:04 AM

One might not necessarily think it for someone who lives as far inland as I do, but every few years hurricanes come through the metro Washington, D.C. area and some of them really do a number. I remember back about 14 years ago in 2003, we had a really bad one – I forget what it was named – and not only did I have to stay home from work because the office was closed due to the local water treatment plant’s having been messed up, but a big tree got blown down right outside where I was living at the time.

I get the feeling this might be a cold, snowy winter in my area – it’s already unusually cool for late August this week – so I must make particular notes to stock up on bunny provender (hay, salad, pellets) when it looks like a blizzard might be coming. Last year (2016) I was snowed in for three days because of the storm we call “Snowzilla” in these parts!

I was born 95 so I was pretty young still, but I remember the hurricane seasons of ’04 and ’05. MY GOSH do I remember. I think both years FL had like 5-6 major hurricanes? We had 5 acres of land near a lake and Hurricane Frances flooded the lake into our whole yard… I think it was only a cat 1 or 2 by the time it reached central FL but I remember it just raining for DAYS. We were outside jumping on the trampoline in the rain (why not right? FL kids lol) and I just remember hearing the sound of rushing water and seeing fish flopping all over the ground. Annnnnnnnnnd then we had to evacuate for 3 months while we waited for the water to recede from the driveway and front of the house. Absolutely freaky part? There was water SURROUNDING the house, in a perfect circle, all the way up to the road but not a drop of water got inside the house.

[joea64]

Posted By BunNoob on 8/29/2017 8:21 AM

Posted By joea64 on 8/29/2017 8:04 AM

One might not necessarily think it for someone who lives as far inland as I do, but every few years hurricanes come through the metro Washington, D.C. area and some of them really do a number. I remember back about 14 years ago in 2003, we had a really bad one – I forget what it was named – and not only did I have to stay home from work because the office was closed due to the local water treatment plant’s having been messed up, but a big tree got blown down right outside where I was living at the time.

I get the feeling this might be a cold, snowy winter in my area – it’s already unusually cool for late August this week – so I must make particular notes to stock up on bunny provender (hay, salad, pellets) when it looks like a blizzard might be coming. Last year (2016) I was snowed in for three days because of the storm we call “Snowzilla” in these parts!

I was born 95 so I was pretty young still, but I remember the hurricane seasons of ’04 and ’05. MY GOSH do I remember. I think both years FL had like 5-6 major hurricanes? We had 5 acres of land near a lake and Hurricane Frances flooded the lake into our whole yard… I think it was only a cat 1 or 2 but I remember it just raining for DAYS. We were outside jumping on the trampoline in the rain (why not right? FL kids lol) and I just remember hearing the sound of rushing water and seeing fish flopping all over the ground. Annnnnnnnnnd then we had to evacuate for 3 months while we waited for the water to recede from the driveway and front of the house. Absolutely freaky part? There was water SURROUNDING the house, in a perfect circle, all the way up to the road but not a drop of water got inside the house.

You were born after Hurricane Andrew, then – I remember that one though fortunately I didn’t experience it; I think it’s still one of the worst storms ever to strike southern Florida. Before that, Hurricane Hugo flooded out Charleston, South Carolina in 1989, and my grandmother, IIRC, had to evacuate Beaufort (my hometown). My parents live on the Brunswick County islands between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC, since 1998, and have had to evacuate a couple of times for major hurricanes.  I live on comparatively high ground in Manassas but there are some low-set roads that still get flash-flooded during heavy rainstorms; it just so happens that one of those roads is one of the access roads to the station for the commuter train, which makes afternoon departure home from there on those days…interesting.

Back to diet during emergencies; I’m going to make it a policy to get hay refills from Friends of Rabbits if possible the weekend before any major storm comes through, and if not, I’ll go to one of the pet stores and lay in an emergency stock of timothy even if I have to pay through the nose for it and P&F find it dull in comparison to their usual mixed hay. Hay is that important. Next comes green vegetables, and finally pellets; and treats are strictly for keeping up bun morale so they can get along without ’em if they have to while snowbound!

[Deleted User]

Definitely a smart idea! Since it is hurricane season and I’m in FL, I stocked up on 25 lbs of hay, rye twists, and all that yummy stuff from small pet select. Although I do live in the middle of the city, so it probably wouldn’t be an issue anyway. But FL is so incredibly FLAT, so you never know what could happen!

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