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Healthy pet rabbits can live for 10–12 years, but sadly many bunnies have a much shorter lifespan due to disease. They thrive on an appropriate, high-fiber diet, as well as a clean living area ...
Newborn rabbits may be prepared as laurices. Laurices are rabbit fetuses prepared without evisceration and consumed as a table delicacy. The word is the plural of the Latin word laurex (variant laurix, n. masc., pl. laurices; [1] English singular occasionally laurice), assumed to have been borrowed from an Iberian source. [2]
GI stasis is the condition of food not moving through the gut as quickly as normal. The gut contents may dehydrate and compact into a hard, immobile mass (impacted gut), blocking the digestive tract of the rabbit. Food in an immobile gut may also ferment, causing significant gas buildup and resultant gas pain for the rabbit. GI stasis may be ...
Your rabbit could be scent-marking in your house, particularly if they have not been neutered," she explains. "Alternatively, they may not be completely house-trained yet. You may need to take a ...
Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.
The average life span of a Polish rabbit is 5 to 8 years, with an average of 6; longer lifespans have been reported in neutered and spayed rabbits. [6] The spaying of female rabbits after 9 months of age can be difficult, [7] [8] but unspayed and unneutered rabbits are at much higher risk of reproductive cancers. Female rabbits are ideally ...
Baby rabbits are actually called kittens, just like baby cats. But although they are born hairless, blind, and deaf, their path to development is much faster than their feline counterparts.
Rabbits play an important part in the terrestrial food chain, eating a wide range of forbs, grasses, and herbs, and being part of the staple diet of many carnivorous species. Domestic rabbits can be litter box trained, and—assuming they are given sufficient room to run and a good diet—can live long lives as house pets.