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Anonymous
hey /an/, pet question!

a friend of mine had a pet rabbit (not pictured), which was pretty young. It recently died due to unknown circumstances (no signs of stress, also, being a young bunny).
That day, we had bought it some new food (from a differant place, I don't know, I had only met it recently), and cleaned its cage. I was told that my friend was unable to get it to eat carrots (the other bunnies in the household did eat them), however, two days before, it had eaten one, and then another one the next day (maybe two, if that was when I showed my friend), and then on the day we cleaned its cage, we fed it at least two, one as it hopped around on the floor (and behind the fridge . . .)

but, like I said, it died. That's what tiny fragile animals can do, right? Well, recently, on an unrelated trip, the Vet told my friend that young rabbits can die from an undetectible intestinal/digestive problem.

So, /an/, did I kill my friend's pet rabbit?
>> Anonymous
Probably not. Young rabbits have very fragile digestive systems, and they need to eat enough of their mom's shit that their intestines become fully populated with rabbit-bacteria. It might've not ate enough shit and, with no cage mate's crap to eat, been unable to get nutrients. Usually rabbits have massive diarrhea when this happens but I've heard of cases where there was enough bacteria to produce a turd shaped turd but not enough to give the rabbit enough nutrients to grow.

The only way carrots could've killed it was if they backed up his system and he began to septic rot inside.

Rabbits are also prone to genetic defects that kick in as the grow.

Poor rabbits.
>> Anonymous
Just as a bonus-tip from me, I dont know about this situation myself, but-
You should not feed rabbits many carrots. They like them, yes, but too many can give them some bad Diahhrea. Rabbits generally prefer Bananas anyhow, and those don't do the harm that carrots can. Just a tip.