Why Does My Bunny Poop So Much?

If you have a new rabbit, you might be surprised by how much poop it makes. You might even think that it is sick. However, rabbits do poop alot. It is common for them to poop what might seem like up to a hundred or more little hard round pellets a day.

Rabbits also have softer feces, which they eat. This is normal and healthy and part of their digestive process. Unless your rabbit is pooing a lot of soft and runny material, it is healthy.

In order to keep your rabbit healthy and its poos healthy, feed it a lot of hay and water. More than anything, rabbits need a great deal of field hay. You can feed rabbits other foods, like pellets and little pieces of apple and carrot, but never lettuce. Lettuce can give rabbits very bad diarrhea, so bad that it kills them. Even feeding them grass and apple and other foods that are safe can change a bunny's feces and baby rabbits should only be fed good pellets, a lot of hay and a lot of clean water, anything more will upset their delicate little stomachs.

Some people think that they are being cruel by not giving their rabbit a lot of different foods to eat, but rabbits are not people. They are designed to mostly eat grass and roots and vegetation and in the wild, that is really all they would eat, they would not be treated to fruits or vegetables very often if ever in their lives. Hay and water will keep your rabbit healthy enough, and occasionally feeding a good quality pellet food will provide them with any additional vitamins and minerals they might be lacking.

Remember, your bunny is not a person and it does not need the same things that you do.

If you keep your rabbit inside, it is possible to train them to use a litter tray. Rabbits always return to the same spot to toilet, so if you put out litter trays in every corner of the room you will find that the rabbit will pick one of them. You can then take the others away and hey presto! You have a litter trained rabbit. Be aware that rabbit urine is very smelly, so you will have to change the litter tray once a day, or more than that. Also be aware that rabbits sometimes use the dry round pellets as a way of marking their territory, so you may find a few of them on the floor even if your rabbit is toilet trained.

Do not be concerned if your rabbit poops a lot. As long as the dry round pellets are solid and as long as the softer poos are well formed and not runny and sticking to the rabbit's fur, your bunny will be okay. The biggest way you can control your rabbit's poop is through its diet. As I have said several times now, your bunny should always have access to hay and occasionally have some pellets too. A bunny fed this way will be a very healthy rabbit with healthy poop!