Preventing Rabbit's Hairballs

Unlike canines and felines, rabbits are unable to throw up. Therefore, they cannot spit up a hairball. In order to prevent hairballs in your rabbit, you ought to brush your rabbit often, when they are shedding (which is every months.) Stopping hairballs is also reason limitless hay is necessary to your bunny's diet as it helps to move the hair/fur through the digestive tract.

Plenty of people give their rabbits Petromalt or Laxatone, an ointment that is designed to help prevent hairballs. In the work of shedding season, you can give the ointment one time a day then one time a week when your bunny is not shedding.

Some rabbits will basically stick their noses up in the air at the Petromalt or Laxatone. A surefire way to get your rabbit to ingest the treatment is to squeeze a tiny bit from the bottle onto her of her paws or her nose. Either way, she is going to require to neat it off, and the only way to neat it off is to lick the treatment.

Supplies to Prevent Rabbit Hairballs :
* Laxatone Hairball Treatment (two.5 oz.)
(Ingredients: white petrolatum USP, light mineral oil NF, corn syrup, malt syrup, soybean oil, cane molasses, water, gelatin by-products, sodium benzoate (preservative), iron proteinate, artificial flavor.)
Cost: Around $5.99
* Tender Touch Slicker Wire Rabbit Brush
(Groom and remove all dead un-wanted hair and mats when used every day.)
Cost: Around $3.99
* Petromalt Hairball Treatment
(malt)
Cost: Around $5.99