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I blocked the easy access to the spot on the floor but she sees making deposits there so important that she found another way to get there, so I put a yellow vinyl sheet on the floor and she makes daily deposits of pellets and urine there (less than 5% of her output) without attempting to dig up...

golden rabbitry wrote “you can litter box train her. She is probably just hormonal now that she is growing up and training her is a simple solution”. By contrast Preitler wrote ‘"Litter training" isn't the right word, I would say, we just take advantage of a natural behaviour by arranging their...

I have a Dutch doe 15 months old not spayed, first had her when she was 6 months old because her former caretaker would not care for her well. He r toiletry habits had been as good as a rabbit ever gets. She has regular access to 3 rooms but sometimes gets into others and is very adventurous...

I have tried apple and pear branches this spring. She eats the leaves and fine twigs quickly and chews on the larger branches a little but when I restrict food, she is very restless, eats more paper and chews on non food items more. I give her 225 g fresh grass, 1/8 cup “rabbit pellets” 5 g...

Now that mine are over a year old and on fresh food plus manufactured pellets, I have to limit supply to avoid excess weight and there is absolutely no waste. I do keep Kaytee timothy hay (their least favorite) in one holder as a precaution against under feeding but no significant waste...

It seems to me that there are 2 things to consider: Making more available than they can eat, and providing something that the rabbit does not consider food. I have 2 holders for grass and hay, one for short or tangled commercial hay and one for long pieces. Last summer I fed fresh grass and...

She is already at 1/4 cup pellets/day and eats (free choice) about equal quantities of hays of timothy, "orchard grass" and my local open field mixed grasses but she acts so hungry. She is even more unhappy when the only hay is timothy and there is no fresh grass.

If I gave her all she wants she would gain weight fast because she loves therm when there is no fresh grass. I was giving her carrot about 5 cc BID and 5 cc apple in the morning but I stopped because it seemed to be fueling her expectations. She is begging less now so that may be the answer.

11 month old dutch doe ate fresh grass and small amount of manufactured food free choice over summer gaining little excess fat. Now that fresh grass is no longer available, she always acts hungry when I restrict all but hay to keep her from gaining weight. She has 3 kinds of hay which she will...

While it is safe, my rabbit won't eat it even if it is this year's growth. Even when eating late season grass with brown tips, she eats up to the brown and drops it, treating it like straw. (She dislikes most hay but will eat it.)

I gave my pet rabbit free access to fresh grass over the summer and she very rarely ate hay. As fresh grass became less available, I found that she hated commercial timothy hay and did not like the hay I made (less mature grass dried at room temperature without sun exposure) much better. I made...