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I had a 2 year old American Dwarf Rabbit and he died Monday. I live in New Jersey and the weather has been weird here but the temperature in my house has been about the same. The rabbit lived in the house and he showed no signs of being ill. I recently found out that the pet store I bought him from gets their puppies from puppy mills and they might get their rabbits from a place similar to puppy mills. I didn’t feed him vegetables that week because I ran out, but I don’t think a week would hurt him. He always had clean water. I did recently buy a new food for him because it was cheaper but the people at the pet store said it was a bit better for him then the stuff I was giving him because it has more nutrition. I told the person that I haven’t given him vegetables for a week and he said if im feeding him that it will make up for some of the nutrition he lost for not eating vegetable. I bathed him 2 weeks prior to that and he jumped out and he landed weird but he acted just fine so I assumed he was okay. I felt him for broken bones and he didn’t react like we was in pain and I didn’t feel anything. I checked him the next whole week for bruises and found nothing. If you need more information let me know. Thanks!
I gave him some alpha hay (not too much because I know a lot can kill him). His new food had timothy hay in it so I cut back on the timothy hay I fed him. I did give him a piece of a rabbit treat I bought him at the pet store. I feel pretty bad because his life was so short.
No I did not use human shampoo. I used a rabbit shampoo. I have given him at least 15 baths in the 2 years I had him and he never reacted like he did the last time. Before I get an animal I read at least two different books about the animal and none of them said anything about giving them dust baths. I am not saying your wrong because you might be right but I never heard of that. Both books said that rabbits love being groomed and getting baths. The book also said that you should only use rabbit shampoo like I did. I think if it was the bath he would have died eariler right? I know a rabbit breeder who breeds bigger rabbits and she said that she doesn’t give them baths often but she never said anything about dust baths.
HereIAm I cleaned his cage also 2 weeks before he died like I usually did. I think the shortest time I have ever waited to clean his cage was a week. He did act a little weird the night before he died because he was quite mean for a rabbit, but the night before he died he was really nice. I didn’t really think of anything of it because every once and a while he would just be nice. I actually called the Vet and asked them what it would cost to figure out how he died the said $150 and I know this sounds mean but that’s a little much considering he’s dead (if he was alive I would pay that much in a heartbeat). I think I’ll just bury him in my backyard. But thanks your answer helped.