this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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The temperature in here gets higher than today regularly but it's normally really dry. Today has been very humid so I guess that must be why. Everyone needs to know the signs of overheating! Clover was visibly shaking and her ears were hot. We cooled her by turning on the AC and putting an ice pack on her. You could also touch the ice pack to their ears to help or spray their ears with a little mist of water then blow a fan on it to cool them down.

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[–] turtle550 4 points 1 year ago

Rabbit mum here. Sounds like you are doing everything right by providing unlimited hay, topped up with some veggies and pellets. Thank you for posting about the signs of overheating. We've had some scares with our boy last year during the UK heatwave and it's really serious. We now keep frozen water bottles in the freezer during summer so we can preventively put them down if we know it's going to get hot. We tried cool pads but our bunnies don't like them!