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How to Tell If a Rabbit Is Healthy
Owners must learn to judge a rabbit's health to act fast when trouble appears. This guide covers diet, droppings and urine, outward signs, and spirit as the four checks.
Signs of a Healthy Rabbit
A sick rabbit shows changes in spirit, coat, appetite, and droppings. This guide lists the normal state of each — from alertness and posture to ears, eyes, skin, appetite, water, and feces — so owners can spot trouble early.
Why Pregnant Rabbits Miscarry or Have Stillborns
A pregnant doe can lose litters to nutritional, toxic, mechanical, or disease causes. This guide breaks down each cause so owners can manage diet and stress to prevent loss.
Causes and Treatment of Diarrhea in Baby Rabbits
Kit diarrhea comes in food-based, mucous, and dysenteric forms, each needing a different treatment. This guide covers the causes, the right medications, and how to prevent the deadly Clostridium perfringens type A infection.
Essential Rabbit-Care Basics Every Owner Should Know
New owners often feel lost; without learning, rabbits are hard to keep alive. Here are the basics of rabbit care.
How Long Do Rabbits Remember Their Owner, and How Do They Tell You Apart
Rabbits are independent but still need company. They usually take about a month to bond and recognize the owner mainly by smell. If you do not leave for long, a rabbit can remember you for life. Bonding shows when it approaches you, begs for food or rubs against you and no longer resists your touch.
Things to Avoid When Raising Rabbits
Raising rabbits has several do-nots. Avoid these to keep your rabbit healthy and by your side longer: lack of companionship, impatience, violence, starving, teasing with food, too many vegetables or fruit, raw water, shaving the coat, and temperatures that are too high or too low.
Do Rabbits Bite, and When
Yes, rabbits can bite, but not without cause — usually when frightened, needing to chew, feeling hostility, or guarding possessions. Their teeth are sharp, so any bite needs prompt wound cleaning and medical care. Giving chew items and handling gently prevents most bites.
Three Measures to Prevent Rabbit Diarrhea
Healthy rabbit droppings are round or oval, smooth and moderately firm. Loose stool usually means contaminated food or illness and can be serious, even fatal. Keep the diet clean, deworm regularly (never with maduramicin, which is toxic to rabbits), and protect against chills and colds.
Why Rabbits Bite: It Is Never Without Reason
Rabbits do have a temper and will bite — usually for a clear reason: self-defense, territory, hormones, poor vision or breed temperament. They are fragile and sensitive, so gentle handling and earning their trust are the best ways to avoid being bitten.