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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad  Have you guys owned rabbits for 5 years? |
I have had rabbits fairly consistantly for over 11 years now. I also had them when I was younger
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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad Do you think I would have posted if I ever had any serious problems? |
I expect there are no problems that you notice. There may not be any problems at all but it's well known that too much salt in the diet is not healthy.
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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad And then on top of anything you DO NOT have to listen to me. |
I am one of the people responsible to make certain that info shared on this forum is safe and in the best interest of the animals. I found you saying "
rabbits do need salt licks" as being misleading and potentially unhealthy/dangerous.
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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad Sure they don't need them but they are healthier with them. |
So which is it? Do they need them or don't they? Prove to me that they are healthier with them.
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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad Sometimes the best information is not from something you've found online or in a book but instead by learning and gaining expirence. |
Unfortunatly I can't get Vets to show up and post when I need them. Therefore I must rely on the info that I find online and cross reference it.
I rely on experiance rabbit people (mostly rescuers) that have had rabbits in their care for way more then 5 years and my Vet who happens to be very very good with rabbits and othe exotics.
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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad Also one of the things about owning an animal for an amount of time you learn to tell when they are feeling "off". If one of my animals ever got ill due to something they ate I would remove it before they die or something like that, I would never leave anything bad in with them. |
I certainly hope you don't risk your animals' lives like you make it sound you do. Most of the time, when you discover an animal like a rabbit is ill from something in it's diet, the damage is done.
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Originally Posted by lapiscaviad I'm just trying to impart my expirences with, like this time salt licks, something that's happening(ed) with my animal to hopefully help or to teach. Isn't that one of the main purposes of this forum? To help each other? |
Just because, so far, you have not had any problems with salt licks does not mean that there aren't risks.
We have heard of people feeding crap food, bedding on cedar, putting vitamin drops in water and doing all the other unhealthy/dangerous things to GPs you can think of and their animals lived a long time. They got lucky (although I'm sure their pets didn't feel that way). I have more experiance with rabbits then you, my vet has much more experiance then me and the Etherbun forum has more collected info/experiance then any other rabbit forum online. Maybe in this instance you should open up and learn a little something like you state you are here to do.