In this case, please go to the pet hospital to have your teeth cut, and it is best to have your teeth pulled out, so that the sequelae are small and you can prevent gum pustules.
The tooth length of rabbits is related to the variety of rabbits. Smaller rabbits have shorter teeth, generally speaking, the length is between 0.5 and 0.7 cm. If it is longer than this length, you basically need to grind your teeth. A pair of incisors in the rabbit's mandible are located between the two pairs of incisors and the small incisors in the maxilla when they are normally closed. There is a small gap between molars. Because the rabbit's teeth belong to "open roots", they will continue to grow all their lives. If there is no proper wear and tear, the teeth will grow too long, affecting the eyes and other organs, and serious infection will occur.
The front teeth are too long.
If tutu's front teeth grow abnormally, they will either stick out of their mouths and become "fangs" or bend back into their mouths. In either case, it will make Tutu unable to eat.
Cause analysis: a. malocclusion, feeding error, no grazing, no proper wear and tear. B. Inbreeding, etc. Some doctors will cut the teeth of Tutu regularly, but this kind of "help" is very stressful for Tutu. At the same time, cutting teeth is more dangerous than filling or extracting teeth, because cutting teeth may cause small cracks invisible to the naked eye, which will go deep into the gums and cause bacterial invasion, which will become a lifelong pain for rabbits.
Malocclusion
When the front teeth keep growing and are not worn, they will start to grow outward, causing trauma to the lips. In addition, the mouth can not be completely closed, the molar gap becomes larger, and the molar will grow too long. In addition, the rabbit will drool, and the root of the front teeth will grow inward (note: the root is actually not "long" into the gum, but pushed in). Blocking the lacrimal passage will make the rabbit shed tears. If it is infected by bacteria, there will be purulent eye secretions and nasal water.
According to the current research, for rabbits with malocclusion of anterior teeth, it is the best method to completely remove the anterior teeth. Tooth extraction for rabbits must be operated by experienced doctors to ensure complete extraction. Tutu may need some painkillers to survive the first day or two after the operation. However, once Tu Tu recovered, it was easy for parents to cut fresh fruits and vegetables into small pieces and feed them to Tu Tu. Granular rabbit food and hay can be given as before, and rabbits can eat these without problem.
If the molars grow too long due to insufficient wear, the upper molars will grow outward and the lower molars will grow inward and gradually become sharp, forming "molar spikes", which will make the upper molars stab into the cheeks and the lower molars stab into the tongue, making the rabbits stop eating because of pain. In addition, the roots of molars will grow inward to the nasal cavity or behind the eyeball and the position of the mandible, causing pustules and other problems.
Teeth spikes are also a problem. Not only rabbits with malocclusion will appear, but also many rabbits with healthy front teeth will appear. Malocclusion often prevents the edges of these molars from sharpening due to wear. These sharp spikes will scratch the rabbit's tongue and cheeks, causing infection. This kind of pain and stimulation will also make the rabbit unable to eat. Ignoring this problem may lead to potential lifelong pain (intestinal obstruction) in rabbits.
Molar problem
When it comes to grinding teeth, only grass has the best effect, such as rabbit food, which only plays the role of squeezing teeth, but not grinding teeth. Some grinding bars, such as molar stones, can only play the role of grinding the front teeth, but the back teeth (molars) can't be ground. Only grass can make the rabbit's back teeth (that is, molars) grind the food they eat when chewing left and right, so that molars can be ground.
Buy high-quality pasture
To make rabbits interested in grass, the quality of grass is very important. High-quality grass is dark green and smells full of grass fragrance, so it is very important to buy a high-quality grass for cultivating rabbits to eat grass.
Train to eat grass since childhood, otherwise it will be difficult to change grass in the future.
Hay-type hay (such as grass and sweet clover) is best cultivated for rabbits from an early age, but it should be noted that the oral mucosa of rabbits is too tender, so the grass should be softer and the hard pole can be kept for later feeding.
The smell of grass, rabbits like it.
The smell of hay can stimulate the appetite of rabbits. Check the dryness of the grass you bought first. If it is wet, it needs to be taken out and ventilated in the shade, and then stored in a sealed container or bag.
Remember to change the grass every day-
Don't take out too much hay at a time, or Tutu won't like it. Just add a little less and eat for an hour. Remember to change the grass every day and change the grass left by Tutu in time.
-Perfusion of fragrance-
Put the hay you don't like with the hay you like, such as alfalfa that most rabbits like and sweet oats that they like. Can be stored with hay that you don't like to eat, so that the smell of each other can penetrate.
Cut the ladder grass into grass segments of about 1~2 cm, and mix them with favorite rabbit food for storage.
-Find a way to restore the scent of grass-
Some rabbit mothers invented the water spraying method, that is, sprinkling a small amount of pure water, fruit juice and so on. Put it on the grass, so that the fragrance is enough when the grass volatilizes water, which is attractive to rabbits. You can try.
Grass that has been left outside for a long time and lacks fragrance can be put in a black plastic bag and dried in the sun for a while to let the fragrance re-emit.
It is said that Timothy is soaked in hot water, and the rabbit is soaked and dried before eating. You can try.
Mix with favorite food.
You can cut the grass into 2cm segments and feed them with your favorite rabbit food.
You can also dip Timu in honey, sugar water, or hair cream (if Tutu prefers it) to see if Tutu eats it.
Try all kinds of hay.
In view of the selective feeding habits of rabbits, we can try to buy more grass at a time and let rabbits choose for themselves. For example, pet doctors often recommend muxi, delicious fruit grass, fragrant oat grass (suitable for older rabbits), sweet oats, ryegrass and wheat straw that most rabbits like to eat. Let rabbits choose what they like.
Mixed feeding of various grasses
Rabbits can only be healthy if they eat all kinds of grass. They can use a variety of forage mixed feeding methods, such as oats, sweet oats, ryegrass, wheat grass, barley grass, etc., and mix them with sweet clover or fruit tree grass. If rabbits like alfalfa, they can also mix alfalfa in Timur, tie it together with rope and tie it in a cage for rabbits to eat.
Try brand grass
You can also choose some good brands of grass such as APD and new hay. Of course, some loose grass in China is also very good, so you can try it.
Adjust the proportion of rabbit food, vegetables and hay.
Check whether there is too much rabbit food, too much fruits and vegetables, a slight decrease in rabbit food and fruits and vegetables, and too much hay.
Single food method
Train rabbits who don't like eating grass not to be soft-hearted, stop all snacks, only feed rabbit food, grass and boiled water, and only put the main grass at other times. In the meantime, rabbits are likely to eat grass when they are hungry or bored.
Delay time method
When rabbits should eat rabbit food, they can add some new grass to the grass rack, and the rabbit food is almost on the grass.
Hunger method (note that the gastrointestinal tract of rabbits is very fragile, and excessive correction of food may lead to gastrointestinal disorder and loss of appetite in rabbits)
Stop feeding rabbit food and other foods for one day, only put hay and water. This method is only used to train stubborn rabbits, but if rabbits don't eat for more than 24 hours, they need to give up, because there is no precedent for hunger training, just like here: rabbits are starved to death by me.
Game training
You can also let the rabbit eat grass while playing, put the main grass in a grass ball like Marca, or tie it up with a rope and hang it in a cage for the rabbit to eat and play.
When outdoors, you can also put the grass in the place where Tutu often goes, or in a corner, so that Tutu can try to steal food.
Weave straw into balls or braids and put them in cages or hang them on cages for rabbits to eat.
Change mode
Diy can be used to make grass cakes. You can cut grass into small pieces, use carrots, apples, a small amount of bananas or broken oats as binders, and bake them in the microwave oven, so that rabbits can eat snacks while eating grass.
Diet correction
For rabbits who have never been fed hay and refuse to eat it, we can start with alfalfa, fresh wheat straw, green bristlegrass, beef tendon or vegetable stalks with good palatability that most rabbits can accept, and gradually transition from these hard foods to hay.
Sometimes food is too delicious, rabbit food is too delicious, snacks are too rich, and the main grass eaten is too palatable and fresh, which is easy to cause rabbits to pick their mouths. Therefore, when choosing rabbit food, besides considering whether the nutrition of rabbit food is balanced, it is suggested to buy rabbit food with good palatability carefully, unless rabbits don't pick their mouths and love to eat grass.
Snacks are recommended as a reward, not too much. If snacks delay eating grass, it will be too uneconomical.
Taking care of a rabbit is like taking care of a child. You can give it whatever it likes. Cultivating a rabbit to eat grass is actually a contest of endurance for its owner. As long as you use your head and work hard, most rabbits will compromise. If you really encounter stubborn rabbits, there is no way, then consider providing more vegetables with high crude fiber or some clean grass that rabbits can eat in the wild.
Go to the hospital quickly.
The above is a professional answer from the back garden of Rabbit Bar.