Did you know ...

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

I did not know any of that

I didn't even know a bunny could / or would get a hairball.. poor buns with their sensitive tums !

[Paws13]

Bunnies can get hairballs? I thought only cats can get hairballs, but bunnies. WOW! So my grandma was right. You do learn something everyday! Thanks, Karen!

[Karen]

Any animal hat grooms itself, like cats do and bunnies do - can get a hairball ... it is rarer in bunnies, but as stated, can be fatal. Unlike cats, where it's just *urk* gross when they get puked up!

[lvpets2002]

WoW great info!! Did not know this.. Also did you know that a mouse or rat cannot Burp.. If they get a hold of any kind of Coke or high acids they will explode.. Their bodies cannot releave the air..

[TamanduaGirl]

actualy any animal can get a hair blockage or enough hair to upset the tummy and make them puke(if they can puke). Cats are different in that it forms together in a mass(ball) in their stomach some of the modern treatments for hairballs include enzymes that break up the binding agents. I'm not convinced these are wise since the cat body obviously deleloped the ball spit up methode to keep hair out of the rest of the digestive system.

My dog puked a couple time from to much of her own hair but it was just normal tummy juive and loose hair.

Because bunnies are herbivores and the food doesn't digest well the hair can get wrapped up in the undigested matter and if not enough fiber in the diet the hair can cause to fecal matter to get stuck together in larger masses that might not pass or if you aren't brushing and it's a heavey shead then it can blocm farther up from their being a big mass of fur.

[Argranade]

WoW great info!! Did not know this.. Also did you know that a mouse or rat cannot Burp.. If they get a hold of any kind of Coke or high acids they will explode.. Their bodies cannot releave the air..

YIKES!

[JuniorxMyxLove]

they can't throw up? wow, I never knew that!
I knew horses can't throw up, which is why colic can get so dangerous...

[Kalei]

Wow so that's why I've never seen any of my bunnies throw up before. I didn't know that! It's a very good thing to know, thank you Karen. And horses too? I didn't know that horses couldn't throw up, that is a very interesting fact. Wow, I want to learn more now. More knowledge!!

I don't know if anyone already knew this or not, but did you know that fish sleep? When my big Queen is sleeping, she goes down to her fav corner of the tank and lightly sits on the rocks, and I can tell she's sleeping cause when I go in front of her it takes her a few seconds to see me and then wehn she does she wakes right out of it and gets up!

[Sevaede]

WoW great info!! Did not know this.. Also did you know that a mouse or rat cannot Burp.. If they get a hold of any kind of Coke or high acids they will explode.. Their bodies cannot releave the air..

Same for birds!

I once met a couple who took their bird with them everywhere and they were telling me about the coke/no gas thing.

[lvpets2002]

WoW Really Birds too.. Hey I did know this guy in school that was the same way.. Beleive it or not.. It was so crazy he could not drink any kind of coke beverages..

Same for birds!

I once met a couple who took their bird with them everywhere and they were telling me about the coke/no gas thing.

[Freedom]

Something about cats above does not agree with what my vet told me. He said that in the wild, whatever it is cats eat (rare mouse bones?) pushes the hair through and they don't normally cough it up. In homes, they don't have "whatever it is" in their diets. And they CAN die from throwing up repeatedly; ripped diaphram. That's why the hairball remedies are important; not for human comfort of not steeping on one, but to prevent the repeated throwing up.

Anyway, on to a maybe unknown fact. Underneath all that fur, a dog has pink skin. BUT if you shave a cat down, the skin is the color of the fur which grows there (except white fur grows on pink skin). So a brown tabby has skin that is black and brown stripes! An orangie has orange skin. A tuxedo has black and pink skin. And . . . A calico has . . . skin of many colors!

[mike001]

Any animal hat grooms itself, like cats do and bunnies do - can get a hairball ... it is rarer in bunnies, but as stated, can be fatal. Unlike cats, where it's just *urk* gross when they get puked up!

Karen, I was reading about the hairballs...does that mean that a dog who self mutilates and chews off his hair and swallows it can get hairballs???

[angelbow20]

- Houseflies prefer to breed in the middle of the room.
-egg shells are as strong as bone.
-A dog cant hear the lowest key on the piano.
-some female turtles may wait up to 5 yrs to lay their eggs after mating.
- humming birds can fly upside down.

[Babyboonie]

This thread is great - I've learnt so many interesting facts that I wouldn't have even thought of looking into! Well done Karen! Hopefully one day soon I'll have my very own "did you know" fact.