Bunny Flop

Question
I've only had my 9 week old baby Dutch for 7 days and even though I've read a lot about rabbits just flooping over like they've dropped dead, I've never seen it for myself until last night when my bun was sitting on the floor, started wobbling, then just flopped over onto his side. Within seconds he was back up acting like nothing was wrong. Will he be doing this alot?

Answer
Hi Jean

Some rabbits do it more often then others. It's a personality thing and like cats running at full tilt and then stopping and flopping over, rabbits do this too. Often it will be after vigorous exercise and it can be startling at first, but as long as that is all it is and everything else is normal then I would see no reason to worry. Just a rabbit being a rabbit and acting silly.

Alice