I'm going to have to change my eating habits. I had a long chat wiuth my vet about my sticky caecotroph problem. When we bunnies get older our gut can have difficulties dealing with bought pellets and that is what is happening to me now I am almost 8 years old. When I came to live with the older members of my family we reduced my pellet food very slowly from 45g to 22g but now it's time to go a bit further.
I love my pellet breakfast and get so excited and sing and dash about when I hear them getting my dish ready so I am a bit doubtful about the idea. I'm to have my vegetables first instead of later in the day and every day I will be given a gram less of pellets until things are just right. My dried grass and hay and my teatime will stay the same so that is something. I will also have some pro-biotics added to my drinking water and will need to be weighed regularly.
I've only been doing it for three days but so far so good. My family keep saying things like "Oh, joy!" and "It seems to be working." My vet says there is far too much promotion of artificial food for animals. All to do with making money I suppose and humans are so easily persuaded to spend. They think they are pleasing us but most of the time they are just pleasing themselves.
I feel so much more comfortable now I am a sweet smelling house bun. I wonder if this is one of the reasons why a lot of rabbits are just left in hutches, because humans don't bother to identify our problems. We are very complicated, special creatures.
The downside for me is having to be weighed every few days in this microwave tub! Do I look too silly?
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Oh Harvey, you actually look very cute in your tub !!
Glad you're getting on with your new diet - when my humans stopped my lovely wet food to put me on the vet dry biscuits, i wasn't a happy kitty - but now that i don't have cystitis every other month, i have to say that it was well worth it !
Hi Harvey,
Why don't you jump out? I would. I think vegetables first is good. I always have vegetables in the morning with pellets after and hay any time I want with extra hay and the occasional bit banana or apple or alphapha cube later to get me back in my den for the night depending on how active I have been.
It is so good to have you to teach us about the future.
Sometimes when I ask for more food I get ear tickles instead and snuggles - I quite like.
I hope your tummy behaves harvey
Love and hops
Lennie
Janet,
I get get given between 32 and 40/5 gms a day early about 8 - 8.30 so I run it off (32 in the summer and around 40-45 winter)
Since I "fell from the sky " onto sleeping humans my nightly activities have been restricted.
I was under fed when I was a baby - and as far as I am concerned Janet - I am still underfed I don't get nearly enough treats - Humph! I am given the odd slice of apple and banana. Sometimes an alfalfa cube. Though those seem to be few and far between these days.
If I was starved I couldn't eat the amount of hay they give me. They think I am a horse!
So Sorry to hear about Teasal. He looks a fine fellow.
Sweet hay nibbles Harvey
Love lennie
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