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bunny appears constipated

22 11:15:03

Question
My bunny did not want to eat today, She has had very few droppings or none, I am watching her now. Cleaned out her litter box so that I can tell better to see if she has dropping.  I will monitor in the morning.  Occassionally she does not eat but she usally still has droppings.  I will check her in the morning. Hope she eats and goes by then. Any suggestions, I tried to give her a little grass, she ate a little.  She always has hay, buy today did not want any

Answer
This is a serious problem, when rabbits don't eat for extended periods of time.  Things can get very bad very quickly.  Please consider this a critical situation.

YOu need to get your rabbit to a vet as soon as possible, even an emergency vet tonight.  It sounds like she is in gut stasis, and the  vet will have medicines to help her through this and get things moving again, as well as pain medicine so that she will start eating more normally.

Please do not wait to do something.  You need to do something RIGHT NOW.  Even if you do nothing and your rabbit makes it to the morning without seeing the vet, she will be weaker and may not be able to survive the treatment.

Get to a vet immediately.  Try to get her to drink something in the meantime.

Lee