Could someone who know profusely around rabbits please answer this?
My rabbit, like all rabbits, poops and pees everywhere. We've set up a play area for her so it doesn't return with on the carpet, but it makes it hard to grasp to her. She likes to sit in her cage and deceit down sometimes, which would be fine except she takes a massive dump every so often which get all over her fur, is hard to clean past its sell-by date, and smells very bad. I read that you can potty train rabbits by putting their poop pellets into a litter box, but this have not worked at all. Does anyone know how to clean her fur or potty train her?
To clean: Get a damp bath cloth...
Mine are Fuzzy Lops and Lionheads and are impossible to train (I'm not so good at that part, too time consuming) so we have they're hutch connecting to a run! They fundamentally use the outdoors...
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Yes you can potty train most rabbits. Rabbits are normally fairly clean animals and like organization to their cage. Clean their cage super well and put in adjectives new bedding, a corner litterpan in the area where on earth they seem to go the most and keep them surrounded by their cage for a day. Do not use clay litter only something adjectives like Yesterday's news or any of the ones made from organic fabric.
Put a little of their timothy hay in the litter pan. Rabbits are one of the few critters close to that to eat and poop in the same nouns. This should help.
First of all, whatever you do, DO NOT use clay litter as it can butcher your rabbit if ingested. Yesterday's News is the best, make sure you buy it at Pets Mart, that's the cheapest place I've be able to find it. As the actual litter training goes, not all rabbits shut in on right away. Try placing the litter boxes where she usually go. What concerns me the most is that you said that she has massive dumps, which is not normal. A little diarrahea is not unheard of but you may want to make certain that she is on a proper diet. She should only be eating plain pellets next to the occasional vegetable such as romaine lettuce, cucumber tops, or of course, carrots. As for cleaning her, what I've found to be the best is the commercial shampoo that they sell for rabbits and using a line brush to scrape away any dried feces, just be certain to be gentle. Good luck, I wish you and your bunny nothing but the best.
Well you can't potty train her, but if you get like chinchilla dust or spray it comfort with the ordor and it help take poop sour their fur :]
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Answers: I have two netherland dwarfs at domestic and I work at a pet shop. You should put litter boxes where she goes to the bathroom the most. I put cat tails cat litter contained by the boxes. You can only use clay litter without any odor crystals. Clay litter doesn't kill rabbits or guinea pigs. We enjoy been using it for years at the pet shop. We wouldn't use it if it was toxic. We have had no deaths using the clay litter. Make certain you don't use the bedding that is the rabbits cage as litter because it will confuse it and it will not work. You can carry unscented baby wipes and wipe the rabbits bottom. If it's really bad, you can bring rabbit shampoo and give her a bath. Make sure she doesn't return with chilled though. You will have to get a blow dryer to dry her off. Make certain it's on a low setting so she doesn't get too overheated or get burnt. Make certain you don't bathe it too much because it takes it's natural oil out of it's fur. I would only do it once a month or less than that. I fed my dwarf rabbit's nearly 1/2 of cup pellets mixed with oatmeal not cooked, 1 or 2 small leafs of yale or a 1/4 or 1/2 a carrot (never use baby carrot they have chlorine in them and get breed your rabbit sick), and a small hand full of timothy hay. You probably should switch to yale instead of the lettuce because it can give the rabbit the runs.
The first entry I would say is this- "why does her feces smell and stick to her fur?"
Normal rabbit feces are hard round pellets that come out relatively dry and hold no smell. Feces that is soft, wet and smelly and sticks to anything indicates a rabbit with a problem. It is most imagined what you are feeding her. Are you feeding "fresh foods"? Like veggies a fruit? If so the best way to clear up the softness is to get rid of these and feed only rabbit pellets and hay beside fresh clean water.
Many people are underneath the impression that they HAVE to feed fresh foods to their rabbit. this is not true and most reputable breeders, who raise and show their rabbits nurture only a complete rabbit pellet to their rabbits.
Litter training a rabbit has to start when they are immature and it is more a training of the owner on where to put the box than the rabbit learning how to behave and where on earth to eliminate waste.
**EDIT**-Those "massive" soft "dumps" are perfectly typical and are called cecotropes or night feces. Most of the time you do not see these as the rabbits consume (eat) them. They contain vitamins and minerals that a rabbit cannot digest the first time through so they ingest the droppings.
The best way to verbs them off of the rabbit is with a baby wipe.
What you are feed in the way of treats sounds fine.But I would not feed it to her everyday, individual once a week.
keep up the good work.
