Oh, what darlings! I've not had any rabbits from babyhood (being one cast-off from my sister and a pair from the local rescue) so I've never been able to give them a proper snuggly upbringing and have to just be thrilled when I get them to approach me voluntarily for attention (or at least not flee at my approach). Lots of treats help, of course. (They even come up to Mom when she comes out of the kitchen, hoping to mooch, and she's not a big fan of them but she'll give them toast crusts.)
I had to get a list of low-calcium rabbit greens last year when Marvin started having bladder sludge issues, and he still is, and possibly mustard greens shouldn't have been on the low-calcium list but maybe it's just that he's at least eight years old. (Possibly older -- the "N04" tattoo on his ear means he was at a minimum neutering age in 2004, but there's no telling how old he actually was at the time.) It kind of limited what I could be feeding them alongside their hay -- and then there's the thing where at the same time last year Marvin was getting poopy butt because of changing his diet around for what I could afford to buy three times as much of (what with bringing home a new bunny twice his size after a year of only having had little Marvin to feed lettuce too) and then changing it again to cut out the calcium. So the upshot is that I've got a short list of what I'll buy for them and I have to keep an eye on his rear and periodically wash his hiney in the bathroom sink or even give him a trimming to keep him from getting mats on his tail.
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I had to get a list of low-calcium rabbit greens last year when Marvin started having bladder sludge issues, and he still is, and possibly mustard greens shouldn't have been on the low-calcium list but maybe it's just that he's at least eight years old. (Possibly older -- the "N04" tattoo on his ear means he was at a minimum neutering age in 2004, but there's no telling how old he actually was at the time.) It kind of limited what I could be feeding them alongside their hay -- and then there's the thing where at the same time last year Marvin was getting poopy butt because of changing his diet around for what I could afford to buy three times as much of (what with bringing home a new bunny twice his size after a year of only having had little Marvin to feed lettuce too) and then changing it again to cut out the calcium. So the upshot is that I've got a short list of what I'll buy for them and I have to keep an eye on his rear and periodically wash his hiney in the bathroom sink or even give him a trimming to keep him from getting mats on his tail.