By an adorable devil - 21/03/2016 06:52 - United States - Houston

Today, my new bunny decided she is only going to eat carrots. If I put anything else in her food bowl, she viciously attacks the bowl until all of the food has spilled out. FML
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Same thing different taste

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I'm not sure what else you expected when you got a bunny. They like carrots. That's a fact.

Better stock up on carrots then OP. What bunny wants, bunny gets!

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laxflame17 7

What behind the rabbit? It is the rabbit!

Friends don't let friends keep rodents. YDI.

As a bunny owner, here's some advice: rabbits CANNOT live on carrots alone. The sugar is bad for them, and it does not have the fiber or protein they need. Bunnies can live on only hay if they have to. They also are fuzzy little morons sometimes who will be stubborn but can be worn down. Be patient. If carrots are only used as a treat, the bunny WILL get hungry and start to eat normal food. Hay, leafy greens, and rabbit pellets will grow on your furball eventually.

zombrie20 5

What I used to do if my bunny didn't eat anything else was I'd make half his cage hay and half wood chips an he eventually would eat more of a variety

Rabbits in my yard eat grass roots and sometimes flower buds and stems. I don't mind them doing that, because I have lots of grass and flowers, I'm a fairly decent shot, and I have a great recipe for rabbit chili.

MED_1984 7

Or its territorial aggression - common in bunnies, especially 'unfixed' ones

zombrie20 5

I imagine it's not that vicious I've had two bunnies my first one when I'd let it out to play every time I tried to catch him he'd sit on his hind legs a scratch at me an then run somewhere else so I'd have to leave it out an throw treats in its cage till Hed hop in the cage my second bunny was totally opposite she would dumb any food I'd give her but the loved being out an she loved being held

As most people have stated, carrots are a treat food only for rabbits. However, I would definitely NOT encourage "starving" your rabbit (or other herbivores like guinea pigs)- their gut flora is particularly sensitive and gut stasis is one of the leading issues I see in rabbits- and it can kill them. An appropriate diet would consist of mostly hay (Timothy hay is what we recommend in practice), some pellets, green leafy veggies, and occasional treats like fruit and carrots. If your rabbit truly is not eating anything else and refuses even when carrots aren't on the menu, you may have to supplementary force feed while you get it to transition- there are complete support foods that you can syringe feed to prevent the gut from slowing- in Aus we have critical care. Feeding things in different ways can help e.g. maybe it likes to eat out of the floor, or there are little hay bags where the hay hangs out of which she may prefer.

Sounds like some bunny needs a Midol.

Fix her bowl to something solid so she can't move it. It might not be so much as she doesn't want to eat the food. Bunnies are weird in that they like their things in a certain place. My bun likes to move all his toys/bowls around into certain places and then sometimes move them back into his toybox. If we touch them or move them he throws a fit and immediately goes to fix the 'problem'. He used to do that with his food bowl until we wired it to something and now he doesn't mess with it anymore. If it is a problem with her just being picky, then try slowly introducing her to different foods, as well as a healthy amount of veggies as well as alfalfa. Bunnies need a healthy level of grains to vegetables in their diet and too many veggies can make them sick.

give her an apple, hollow out the center (the seeds are poisonous to rabbits) and fill it with rabbit pellets and carrot slices, it will help ease her into eating rabbit food instead of just carrots