How can I encourage my baby rabbit to eat?

Three days ago I adopted a wild baby rabbit which was found with hypothermia and shock near my home. Because they are pests here the RSPCA gave me the option to keep him because they would just have to put him down.





The problem is that we are having trouble getting him to eat anything. We have tried rabbit mix from the pet shop, pet milk (a fairly generic one that is suitable for kittens and puppies), pet milk with honey, grated carrot, broccoli, grass, dandelion leaves, clover leaves and flowers, and grapes. He doesn%26#039;t seem to be interested in anything - he will have a little nibble at the grass, clover flowers and dandelion but just nibbles off a tiny piece, chews it up but then doesn%26#039;t want anything else.





He is doing wees and a small amount of poos but I%26#039;m getting worried that he is going to starve himself to death! He is very lively, and appears happy and curious. He is quite young (the vet at RSPCA though about 4 wks old) but has thick fur and eyes open so probably weaned.

How can I encourage my baby rabbit to eat?
Try this site out as it is the best one IMO on the net for rabbit information.





www.rabbit.org





Unfortunately, I know a lot of people don%26#039;t recommend having wild rabbits as pets since they are very different than domesticated pet rabbits you would see in a pet store. In your case though, I would%26#039;ve done the same thing instead of having the poor thing put down. The site has very useful information and I hope it helps :)
Reply:Just continue variations and hopefully you will find something he likes. Try finding stuff close to where you found him also as he may be more succeptable to liking it from having it before. I have no experience with rabbits so this is the best I can help. I hope he doesn%26#039;t die. Good luck.
Reply:Oh yeah baby rabbit is fine to eat too. There%26#039;s a lot of good rabbit stew recipes online.
Reply:just leave it in a stress free little container where he feels safe don%26#039;t watch it because this might make it nervous leave a bowl of finlet chopped carrot in their it will eat after it has a sleep.
Reply:If you insist on trying to save this feral animal that has decimated our country,,, then fine.. Its a wild animal that has no connection hardly at all to our domesticated rabbits. It needs to be in a good sized enclosure in a very quiet area of your yard, with minimal human contact and lots of natural grasses, bland hay plenty of wood etc for its teeth. If the feral thing survives and gains strength, please have it de-sexed, for your own safety and your other pets, have it tested for deseases such as mixo(introduced to eradicate this pest) No doubt, if it survives it will escape eventually. I have seen the ground collapse under house foundations because of this animals burrows in our country. They breed much faster than our natural animals and compete with them for food. It%26#039;s not likely to survive captivity, please leave it with your vet.
Reply:i have a rabbit and when i got it she wouldn%26#039;t eat anything. i tried everything just like you. but then i realized that she wouldn%26#039;t eat anything while i was there because she was too curious to see what i was and to jump on my lap. when i left, she would eat. i recommend getting alfalfa or timothy hay. rabbits need these in order to digest thier food right and also you can get very organic hay that i think a wild rabbit won%26#039;t mind eating. keep feeding him the fresh stuff too. i hope i helped.. !!



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