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What to Do When Your Rabbit Is Shedding
Rabbit shedding is usually seasonal and harmless, but patchy hair loss with heavy dandruff, red spots, or sores signals a skin condition that needs a vet. During a normal coat change, brush your rabbit often and clear away loose fur to prevent hairballs—and skip human shampoos and unneeded medication.
What Rabbits Fear Most
Rabbits are timid and easily scared; avoid their fears to prevent stress. Here is what they fear.
How to Take Good Care of a Pet Rabbit
Good rabbit care spans diet, grooming, litter training, a clean hutch, and bathing. This guide covers the five points every owner should master.
Symptoms of Rabbit Ear Inflammation and How to Treat It
Rabbit ear inflammation (otitis) causes head tilt, ear drooping, foul-smelling discharge, and balance problems, and can lead to deafness or even fatal meningitis if left untreated. Mild buildup can be managed at home with gentle ear cleaning and anti-inflammatory drops, but inflammation with discharge and odor requires prompt veterinary care.
Essential Tips for Raising a Rabbit
Raising a rabbit is easy, but raising one well takes commitment. The essentials: always provide clean (never tap) water, make hay the staple with age-appropriate pellets and veggies as supplements, allow daily exercise and litter training, keep the habitat clean, rabbit-proof hazards, and skip frequent baths. A balanced diet and clean home are the foundation of rabbit health.
What Do Pet Rabbits Eat, and What Equipment Do You Need?
Rabbits eat mainly rabbit pellets, alfalfa, and timothy hay, and must always have water. You'll need a cage, ball-tip bottle, food bowl, hay rack, and litter box, plus pads, deodorizer, and chew toys. This article gives a simple guide to rabbit care.
Do Lop Rabbits Smell? How to Handle a Smelly Rabbit
Lop rabbits are clean, burrow-loving animals that groom themselves and have light-scattering droppings, so they rarely smell. This guide explains why a rabbit may smell—litter habits and scent glands—and how to fix it with training, diet, bathing, and hygiene.
What to Know About Keeping a Rabbit
Rabbits are gentle but need care: a quiet home and clean cage, proper diet (pellets, hay, rinsed produce), chew toys, exercise, correct holding, and rare baths.
Why do rabbits sometimes squint their eyes?
Squinting can sharpen vision by narrowing the pupil to filter glare and protect the retina. Rabbits also squint when comfortable and relaxed, like while sunbathing. But eye itch or inflammation can also cause squinting as a self-protection response.
What Happens If You Bathe a Rabbit?
Rabbits are sensitive and timid, and bathing can cause stress leading to shivering, poor appetite, and lowered immunity, then colds and stomach upset. Their sensitive skin can also be damaged by frequent baths or harsh shampoos.