You bought a rabbit and, of course, at once got all necessary for the new resident. Krolchonok perfectly feels in a new cage, eats with appetite, however does not approach a drinking bowl, preferring to use a bowl. The task to teach the kid to drink from a drinking bowl is necessary.
Instruction
1. If you bought a rabbit who drank only from a bowl, with a ball he should be accustomed to process of water consumption of a vertical drinking bowl. The bright small animals who are quickly understanding that to what meet. Others cannot realize the mechanism and advantages of a drinking bowl long enough.
2. The rabbit who is just lodged in a new cage can not drink and there are no several hours. Let's a small animal accustom, do not disturb him this time. The krolchonok will recover soon and will surely become interested in food and water.
3. Bring a krolchonka to a drinking bowl and slightly stick it with a nose into a ball for drink. Try not to frighten a small animal. Scatter water on a nose of a rabbit that it sliznut drops. If usual water does not attract the kid, can fill in in a drinking bowl of a little carrot juice or grease a ball with milk. Perhaps such additive to a diet will interest a rabbit.
4. If the rabbit persistently ignores a drinking bowl, check whether correctly you attached it. Change of a tilt angle can block water access. Remove a drinking bowl and attentively study its design – perhaps, the rejected copy got to you. Sometimes, that the drinking bowl nose opening too narrow – it can be expanded by means of cuticle scissors. If water does not come to a tube at all, it is better to replace a drinking bowl.
5. The drinking bowl functions, however your pet still does not approach it? You do not hurry – on schooling of a small animal several days can leave. You do not become angry about a rabbit and do not try to use force – he can begin to be afraid also of you, and drinking bowls.
6. You watch water level in a flask. The large rabbit in hot season drinks all contents of a drinking bowl in a day. But also those who do not need such amount of water meet. If your pet consumes many juicy forages – a fresh grass, vegetables or apples – perhaps he receives enough liquid from them. However water has to decrease gradually is an indicator that drinking regime of a small animal as it should be.