This little bun is confusing the heck out of me.
The past two or three days, as the weather outside has heated up, she has been almost constantly laying splayed out in her cage, breathing fast, and shaking. Her cage is in my kitchen, and while we don't keep the house super cold, it doesn't get over 80. She's eating and drinking fine, I think, though I did add a crock of water to her cage when it seemed as if she was having trouble getting water out of the bottle (can't figure out why that was so, but she'd clink and clink and clink at the bottle, and the ounces barely went down, even though when I tapped on the ball, it seemed to come out fine). Pee and poops look fine, though it's hard for me to tell their volume.
I keep a frozen water bottle in there with her at all times. She lays right on top of it (like here). I wet her ears a few times a day.
She runs around outside of her cage happily for a while, then she lays here on the tile floor right under the fan.
Could she really be in a near constant low-level of overheated? If so, is that stressful on their bodies? It's only going to get hotter here. Where I bought her, they had a floor fan pointed right at the cages of her dam and sire. Does that help? :-?
Thanks for any feedback.
The past two or three days, as the weather outside has heated up, she has been almost constantly laying splayed out in her cage, breathing fast, and shaking. Her cage is in my kitchen, and while we don't keep the house super cold, it doesn't get over 80. She's eating and drinking fine, I think, though I did add a crock of water to her cage when it seemed as if she was having trouble getting water out of the bottle (can't figure out why that was so, but she'd clink and clink and clink at the bottle, and the ounces barely went down, even though when I tapped on the ball, it seemed to come out fine). Pee and poops look fine, though it's hard for me to tell their volume.
I keep a frozen water bottle in there with her at all times. She lays right on top of it (like here). I wet her ears a few times a day.
She runs around outside of her cage happily for a while, then she lays here on the tile floor right under the fan.
Could she really be in a near constant low-level of overheated? If so, is that stressful on their bodies? It's only going to get hotter here. Where I bought her, they had a floor fan pointed right at the cages of her dam and sire. Does that help? :-?
Thanks for any feedback.