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Do you have a waterbottle on the cage? You may want to switch to a bowl and see if that helps...you may have a leaky bottle. (just a thought...had that happen once to me, thought the rabbit was downing the water and turned out the bottle was leaking most of it out!) What kind of feed are you giving it? (what breed is it?) It may not have a high enough fat and protien which will make it eat a lot more to compensate.
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He does have a water bottle but I know it isn't leaking. That would've been my first thought too. It's a dog water bottle with an nice heavy ball bearing. It's a replacement for a leaky one! I've actually watched him do it. He acts like he's dehydrated and will sit and drink for 5 minutes straight. His stomach makes weird gurgling noises because he drinks so fast. He eats
MannaPro "Pro". He also gets grass hay and fruits and veggies. What worries me is that my mom (he was her rescue rabbit for a year before she gave him to us) said he's fat. But he eats the same amount of food as he did at her house and has a cage that's twice as big (28"x42" and 2 stories) and he has a tractor for the nicer months. He definitely gets more exercise than he did at her house. I fed him last night while she was here and she was shocked to see him just about take the scoop out of my hand for his pellets. We've had him for 2 years and this is new behavior, just within the last month or so and he's been on the
mannapro for just about the whole time. I know that people prefer rabbits to have timothy based pellets but I can't get any. No one has any. What do you feed your rabbits?
eta: He is about 3 years old and is a lop mix. He weighs 6.5lbs.
That feed sounds good, no problem there. (I use Kent) It actual sounds like he might need to be wormed. You can get a wormer from your vet, dosage the same as a cat. Worm once and then again a week later. (or there's kinds of wormers you use over the course of a week, depends on what your vet has) Or you can get just a basic kitten wormer from the pet store.
I had a buck who used to down his water...I always figured he was diabetic....and he did get cataract in his eyes towards the end. You might want to slip him some electolytes in his water as well. (give him a little boost while you're wormig him) '
He wouldn't happen to be an agouti colored rabbit would he?
