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All rabbit owners!PLEASE HElP!!! Just got a bunny, dont know what to feed him!!!

Tobybunny — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:05:49 GMT

Toby is my new 5 year old, not fixed mini lop. He is my first rabbit and i have no clue if im feeding him right. Please let me know what you feed your rabbits for a long and healthy life! He also has recently started to always have a wet bum. He got his litter stuck all over it so i gave him a bath with a wash cloth and bunny shampoo but that was over 24 hours ago and his bum is still wet! I also havnt seen any cecotropes around his cage or him eating any. Is it normal that i never see him or is he supposed to leave them around? Please let me know what you feed your rabbits and what you suggest i do.

mouse with raw skin on sides of nose

Maggie — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:03:43 GMT

Hi, I have had my wee boy mouse Nutmeg for a while now and he has always been a fairly happy little fella; but he has raw skin on both sides of his nose. He is eating normally, doesn't seem to be dehydrated. I do know at one stage he lost weight due to some very strange reason that someone removed his food bowl from his cage and I never discovered what happened to it (Yes, he got another one immediately it was discovered which was a couple of days after I'd cleaned out his cage;this is usually done every 2 days) . He is quite a good weight now and seems to be happy but the raw skin is really bothering me as it looks sore and I don't know what to put on it.

I have no idea of his age as I took him on after my son didn't want him anymore and I change his cage around each time i clean it out to avoid boredom for him. I added a cardboard roll and a tissue and he has a little mousey house as well. He didn't like the mousey wheel at all.

Please any ideas of what I can do to rid my little fella of the raw looking skin on the side of his nose. I do handle him and I have a special box to put him in when I clean him out and he has not been with another mousey for along time so don't think it's any infection from another source??

My piggie

Jeffrey — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:33:10 GMT

Snuggles is all better!!! Medicine did work after a while, and shes all better. Now she's back to being her little rascal self again!

My rat won't tend to her babies.

ilovemyferret — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:35:28 GMT

So my rat had babies about 4 days ago. Now she's not tending to her babies at all. I mean, this is the first time I've bread rats and I don't know if this is normal or not :/
Inform me please!

help!!!!

rat momma — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:23:51 GMT

my rat has these mini convulsion everyday and he jerks a little and squeks. sometimes they get bigger and worse, what is this? should i be concerned??

Scabs, Dander, and Loss of hair Oh my!

Jeffrey — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:41:57 GMT

My guinea pig Snuggles has some kind of white stuff on her skin, not the fur, the SKIN. She has scabs also on her skin. By those scabs, there is loss of hair from biting at them.

WARNING: Parsley Recall!

BlancDeHotot — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:58:29 GMT

The recall involves 2,498 cases of the parsley with expiration dates 12 days after being packed. The parsley went out to the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.

There is a teddy bear on the packaging so if you see that on yours, DO NOT FEED.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48220/

Visit the link above for more info.

Oxbow Hay Hazard!

urofan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:27:04 GMT

I want to warn members about an incident that happened to me and my guinea pig. The cage is in my bedroom. I was laying down on my bed when I heard the sound of my guinea pig chewing plastic. I went over and pulled it out of his mouth. The object was a square piece of paper covered in plastic wrapping. The paper was an advertisement for Oxbow Hay products, and it had been hidden somewhere in the Timothy hay bag. I didn't see the paper when I was putting hay in the cage. I don't think it is put into the smallest bags of hay, because those are the ones I usually buy. I just wanted to warn people so that they are on the lookout for the plastic-covered advertisement, so the same thing doesn't happen to them. I was fortunate that my guinea pig wasn't harmed, but he was chewing it up like a piece of romaine lettuce when I stopped him.

Guinea Pig Doesn't Eat

Peako03 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:21:26 GMT

I tried sevral things and my guinea pig won't eat or drink anything.

My hamster looks like she has a tumor, HELP!

SweetBasil — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:31:15 GMT

She looks like shes pregnant but I know shes not, I think she has a tumor and i'm not sure what to do. There are no vets around me that help small animals so I can't get her looked at. I hate to see her in pain, I've given her a very comfortable place to sleep but thats all I feel like I can do. I know it's getting worse everyday, I don't want to end up having to do this but I fear for the worst.. do you know any humane ways to put a hamster down?

Patches

animalgirl — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:00:40 GMT

Ever since I got Patches, he's gotten a lot fatter, his tank smells REALLY bad even after I just changed the litter. And it's not just the tank that smells. The mouse itself smells bad. Patches has some strange poop that looks like diarrhea. And instead of running out of his hiding box to see me today, he never came out until I picked him up. I don't know what's wrong, he's always smelled bad but now he's acting weird too!

Bunny video

BlancDeHotot — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:45:37 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXvHQKHMHw

birdseed apperance FERRET poop

mis — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:07:22 GMT

MY 6 MONTH OLD FERRET ( SCOOP ) IS PASSING POOP WITH THE APPERANCE OF BIRDSEED TEXTURE . I READ THAT IT IS A SIGN OF DIGESTIVE PROBLEM , DIGEST FATS ETC. I TOOK HIM TO THE VET THAT IS ABOUT 40 MINUTES FROM ME ,FIGURING HE WOULD UNDERSTAN HOPEFULLY THIS MINOR PROBLEM . I DO HAVE A FERRET SPEACIALIST ( 2 HOUR DRIVE FROM HOME ) I TOOK MY LAST FERRET THAT PASSED FROM THAT NASTY ( DIM )

BUT I BELIEVE MY DOGS VET IS NOT TO FAMILAR WITH FERRETS , HE THINKS THE FERRET IS EATING SOMTHING HE SHOULDNT , I TOLD HIM NO HES NOT . MY FERRET IS NOT A CHEWER AND I SEARCHED THE HOUSE UP AND DOWN TWICE FOR HARMFULL THINGS HE COULD GET INTO .

THE VET PUT HIM ON A TYPE OF ANTI INFLAMATORY AND ANTI BIOTICS , I DONT SEE ANY MOORE MUCUS IN HIS POOP , BUT IT STILL HAS BIRD SEED APPERANCE , IF IT DOESNT CLEAR UP I WILL TAKE HIM TO THE SPEACIALIST

PLEASE REPLY WITH ANY INFORMATION OR EXPERIENCE ON THIS POOP ISSUE THANK YOU

Pellets

sabs789 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:28:18 GMT

My piggie, Shakira, is not eating her Zupreem pellets but eats Ecotrition pellets. I cant give her Ecotrition because she is little overweight and it is not healthy. So I am giving her Zupreem pellets and she doesn't even touch them. What can I do?