🔊Wrong, wrong, wrong. Rabbits should never be bathed.
(Unless adviced by an exotic veterinarian due to an illness.)
Rabbits clean themselves and each other. And that’s enough. They are generally very clean animals and spend a lot of their days engaged in grooming activities.
Since they are prey species, they’re more easily scared than cats and dogs. Rabbits do not want to feel vulnerable and getting wet is unnatural to them.
When their fur gets wet, the hair can clump together, making it difficult to get them completely dry. Rabbits who are not properly dried are more prone to respatory infections as well as hypothermia.
And drying a rabbit could be dangerous itself, since they can get overheated from an hairdryer, for example.
Bathing rabbits regularly removes natural oils in their hair that helps them keep their coat in a good condition, so if avoiding terrorizing them wasn’t enough, it can actually physically hurt them in the long run.
There are only two kinds of rabbits that naturally and freely choose to get in the water – the Swamp and the Marsh rabbits. They live in the wetlands of southern USA and the eastern coastlines.
❗️To summarize; never bathe a rabbit unless adviced by an exotic veterinarian beforehand.🐇❤️
Common Rabbit Myth: Male Rabbits Can’t Be FriendsWhy not? Rabbits live in herds in the wild, and there aren’t always only one male living with several females. There are also several bonded pairs of male+male working very well, or groups with several males+females. So where does this myth come from?
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