How can i make my rabbit lose weight?
My advice is in stark contrast to the other advice given, but I’ve been raising rabbits for 26 years and I studied animal nutrtition in college. Plus I’ve read a couple books and several articles on the subject. Be concerned about the amount of fat your rabbit has and not the amount of weight it has. A heavy rabbit can be perfectly healthy as long as it is not fat. A good example of explaining what I mean would be like: If I told you a guy weighed 300 pounds, would you say he needed to go on a diet? Now what if I added after you answered that he was a 6’4″ professional body builder. That changes the answer a little doesn’t it? The problem I see all to often is that people see their rabbit as weighing too much or being too big and they put it on a diet. But if you put a healthy rabbit on a diet, it would be like putting that body builder on a diet. The only thing your rabbit would lose would be muscle. And it is very unhealthy for your rabbit to lose muscle. If you can feel the bumps on
