Rabbit Food??

[Aspen and Misty]

Most usually your pet store will haev RAT food. Thats always a good thing to give your rats


Ash

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by Aspen and Misty
Most usually your pet store will haev RAT food. Thats always a good thing to give your rats


Ash

nope lol...neither of the petshops have rat food...believe me, ive looked like crazy..ive seen rabbit, guinea pig, gerbil and hamster, chinchilla, but most of them just say small animals food...

[Desert Arabian]

nope lol...neither of the petshops have rat food...believe me, ive looked like crazy..ive seen rabbit, guinea pig, gerbil and hamster, chinchilla, but most of them just say small animals food...

Than those two pet stores must be pretty crappy!!!

Are you sure they weren't out of stock?

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by YellowLabLover


Than those two pet stores must be pretty crappy!!!

Are you sure they weren't out of stock?

they r kinda crappy lol...the first one is very small like one u might see on tv...the other one is huge with shelves practically piled to they sky, with a veteranary clinic, groomers, a photography room, a doggy daycare and dog obedience, yet no rat food lol
i dont hink they were out of stock cuz i go to one or the other almost every day and havent seen anything yet...
their bedding sux too lol...i cant find carefresh or mountain frsh but i really wanna try it!

[Aspen and Misty]

Originally posted by wolfsoul

nope lol...neither of the petshops have rat food...believe me, ive looked like crazy..ive seen rabbit, guinea pig, gerbil and hamster, chinchilla, but most of them just say small animals food...

Order it on line

Ash

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by Aspen and Misty


Order it on line

Ash

what does rat food consist of anyways? i think the food i give them right now is fine

[CathyBogart]

Originally posted by wolfsoul
im going to go to the petshop and ask for the ingredients to their pellets....(the stupid pellets dont even have ingredients on them)
even if they dont have alfalfa, r they still hard on a ratties tummy?

Erm...I hope you mis-posted something and you aren't feeding rabbit pellets to a rattie!

Rabbits: We sell the Timothy based Oxbow food at work. I find it really hard to sell because it is more expensive, and a lot of people want the least expensive....grr....

Rats: In case you were talking about "rat pellets", I do recommend a lab block diet for rats, as long as they are NOT KAYTEE lab blocks. Go for Harland if you can get them, but most brands except for Kaytee are all right.

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by WolfChan


Erm...I hope you mis-posted something and you aren't feeding rabbit pellets to a rattie!

Rabbits: We sell the Timothy based Oxbow food at work. I find it really hard to sell because it is more expensive, and a lot of people want the least expensive....grr....

Rats: In case you were talking about "rat pellets", I do recommend a lab block diet for rats, as long as they are NOT KAYTEE lab blocks. Go for Harland if you can get them, but most brands except for Kaytee are all right.

i had given them some pellets before i was corrected on here...but i noticed something lastnight...it actually says total pet unifeed rabbit pellets...doesnt that mean its used on other animals? either way, i wont be giving it to them, just wondering... if u look on a post i put bfore, there arent any lab blocks in my area...i dont understand really, cuz the petstore across from me is huge and filled with so much stuff (most of the pocket pet stuff is completely useless though lol)

[CathyBogart]

http://www.rodentfancy.org/acart/ago...=5782088.14472*Hs2sD4%Êrt_id%%&xm=off&keywords=E-100+SP-100&product=_o_

http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/d...68K9XV08KB291E

http://www.petswarehouse.com/search_...A+Pkg+Foods+RT

http://www.mousiekin.com/pet-mouse-f...rter-kits.html

http://www.heatherlea-pets.co.uk/aca...s_Food_96.html


"Unifeed rabbit pellets" still says to me that they are for rabbits.... There are a few links ofplaces to order rat food. I'd ask at the large pet store in your area also, although I know a lot of pet stores carry only Kaytee blocks and seed mixes, both of which I'd steer clear of. Another good food is Suebee's mix, which you have to order directly from Suebee at www.goosemoose.com/rfc

[wolfsoul]

my mom said she doesnt want me to order from the internet....and i dont really trust it either....the internet isnt always the best place to get ur stuff.....
but what does rat food have in it anyways? i think what im giving them should suffice, but is there something in "rat food" that is really essential?

[Desert Arabian]

Internet prices beat store prices by a long shot...at least that's the case with all the stuff we buy off the internet i.e. pet supplies.

[wolfsoul]

i cant make her do anything she doesnt want to do...ill tell her that, but i dont think it will work...how do u pay for pet supplies? can u send money? or do u have to use a credit card?

[Heather Wallace]

A rabbits diet should consist of maily a high quality hay throughout the day along with some vegetables and only a small amount of pellets/dried food.]

Rabbits can survive on a diet of hay and grass.

[Daisylover]

Getting back to Rabbits, see www.rabbit.org and go to the link for nutrition.

Alfalfa-based pellets are not good for adults, especially as the rabbit gets older. Alfalfa pellets are high in calcium, which for babies is good (for their bones), but as an adult they not longer need that calcium for bone growth. The excess calcium sits in their bladder, forms into crystals and eventually becomes bladder stones. The tell-tale sign for excess calcium is called sludge, a whitish deposit in the bunny's urine.....that is a danger sign that you need to stop ALL alfalfa based products immediately.

There are timmothy hay based pellets, as Zippy indicated, made by the Oxbow company. Rabbit specialist vets usually sell them as well as oxbow online. americanpetdinner.org (or maybe .com)
also sells timmy-based pellets.

I urge people who say they've always feed their rabbits pellets and have never had a problem....I'd like to know how old did your bunny get to be before it died and do you know what it died of?
I'm not being a smart alec.... I'm sure that some bunnies can live on nothing but pellets but as my vet says, do wild bunnies eat pellets? Of course the answer is no. It is not a natural food. Bunnies need unlimited amounts of timmy hay and greens to keep their gut moving. If the gut gets heavy with pellets, or the bladder heavy with calcium crystals you could, not would but could, lose your bunny. A bunny's gut has to move 24 hrs a day and if it stops they die within hours, so please don't take the chance.

[Daisylover]

I also meant to add in my prev post above that with advances in bunny health and nutrition and with most bunnies living indoors,
rabbits are living a much longer life span than previously..... Specialists are now saying we can expect a well-cared for rabbit, getting proper vet care and diet and living indoors to live a average life of 7-11 years. It's possible that sludge and bladder problems were not seen in bunnies who never got that old and/or that live outside.