If your rabbit was strongly soiled, you should resolve an issue of its bathing. Many owners of rabbits do not know how to do right thing in this case. On the one hand, some experts claim that it is impossible to bathe decorative rabbits as water procedures do harm to their health. On the other hand, the dirty rabbit is not always capable to clean the hair independently therefore in case of need it is necessary to wash a rabbit nevertheless. It is necessary to do it extremely carefully, and the more rare, the better.
- Remember that rabbits very ambiguously treat bathing process. If you resolved to wash a rabbit, be ready that he will show aggression, to be nervous and to fyrchat scaredly. The fact is that in the nature these animals never wash in water – they purify the wool as cats. Therefore water procedures for them are a serious stress.
- Bathing a rabbit, try not to use detergents – they can affect negatively animal hair, for example, to decolour it or to make more rare and dim.
- It is necessary to wash a rabbit with warm water, it is desirable – in a bath. For this purpose just it is necessary to pour water in a bath and to put there a rabbit. The shower with the lens is not recommended to be used as separate drops of water can get to an animal into an ear, and it, in turn, leads to development of otitis.
- After the rabbit is washed up, it needs to be dried properly. But do not use the hair dryer for drying of a rabbit at all – the animal can be frightened of hum. Just it is better to wipe a rabbit a dry and warm towel, and it is necessary to wipe until the small animal does not become completely dry – differently he can catch a cold.
- If a rabbit not really dirty, it is possible to wash up not all hair but only the most polluted places. In this case process of bathing will significantly become simpler. Most often pads of a rabbit need washing. To wash up pads, it is rather simple to lower an animal in a bath with a small amount of warm water and to slightly rinse wool on his extremities. After that it is necessary to dry up pads of a rabbit a towel or a dry rag.