What should rabbits pay attention to when eating hair cream?
When the rabbit has hairball disease, you can give the rabbit some hair-balm. Some pet owners who have just raised rabbits may not understand how to deal with rabbit hair-ball disease and what to pay attention to when eating hair-ball cream. Let's talk about this knowledge, pet owners can come to understand.
- Adjust the diet of rabbits
Rabbits usually eat some of their own hair. When you find hair in the rabbit’s poop and touch the rabbit’s stomach, there will be hard things, which means that the rabbit has hairball disease. At this time, the pet should adjust the rabbit’s diet structure in time. Continue to feed it rabbit food, you can choose to feed some hay, such as alfalfa grass, Timothy grass, rye grass, etc. Hay contains high fiber, which is helpful to the rabbit's stool. You can also feed some vegetables to rabbits at ordinary times, but you should wash and drain the water on the surface before feeding.
- Give the rabbit hair cream
When the rabbit has hairball disease, it is not enough to eat hay alone at this time, you can feed some hair cream to the rabbit, as a reminder, the hair cream here cannot be the hair cream that cats usually eat, rabbits and cats The body structure is different, cat hair removal cream is not suitable for rabbits, so it is better to choose hair removal cream suitable for rabbits, such as rabbit fun ball. It can be directly squeezed out for the rabbit to eat, or squeezed onto the rabbit's body or paw, and the rabbit will lick it off by itself.
- Comb the hair of the rabbit
Rabbits have hairballs, most of which are caused by rabbits eating some hairs when grooming themselves. Therefore, in order to reduce the amount of hairs eaten by rabbits, pet owners should comb the rabbits’ hairs at ordinary times to remove some hairs that have fallen off in time. Use a needle comb suitable for rabbits to comb along the direction of hair growth. After combing, the hair on the ground should be cleaned in time. Sometimes when the rabbit is eating food, the food is stained with hair, and the rabbit will eat it together. It is also recommended that the pet owner help the rabbit's food to be higher, so that it is not easy to get hair.