Rabbits and hares are clean animals. Therefore, if you keep eared at home, they do not need to be bathed, they clean their fur from any litter and dirt on their own.
However, there are situations when the pet has become soiled that it does not tidy itself. Then there is a need for water procedures. How to do it as less as possible traumatic for eared - tell you next.
Why it is not recommended to bathe the rabbit
- In the wild, eared go around water bodies. Take water treatments for them is not natural.
- The rabbit is a shy animal, especially for ornamental species. Therefore, swimming for them is a serious stress, which will be very difficult to transfer.
- Rabbits are clean, and their fur coat changes twice a year.
- Water and shampoo wash off the protective layer of wool, and it loses its former appearance, it can even start to fall out.
- Holding a rabbit while swimming is extremely difficult. He will desperately escape and may harm himself and you.
- Eared skin has a good undercoat, so it is extremely difficult to dry it.
In some cases, it is still worth bathe eared
There are a number of cases in which it is almost impossible to do without water procedures:
- Pet strongly smeared with something sticky or greasy.
- He has an upset stomach, and the coat around the anus is constantly dirty.
- Eared contacted with substances hazardous to health, and they remained on his wool.
- Contained in poor conditions, and the pet's skin was smelled with urine, and its paws turned yellow.
Important! In a wet coat, a rabbit can easily get sick.
How to wash a decorative rabbit so as not to harm
If you understand that your pet needs urgent bathing, then you need to carefully prepare for this procedure. Having prepared everything you need, it will be easier to cope with the task, bathing will take less time and you will not cause eared harm.
To decorative breeds of rabbits include such as fox dwarf, color short-haired dwarf, Viennese blue.
Full bath
Full bathing is necessary only in cases where the percentage of pollution of the fur coat is too large. 
To make water treatments as pleasant as possible for your pet, remember the following:
- Bathing in the bathroom is not desirable. Better to do it in the pelvis or sink.
- Water temperature should be 36 ° C.
- Make sure there are no drafts in the room.
- Prepare everything you need: shampoo for animals, a basin, a towel.
- Before starting a bath procedure, find an assistant for yourself, as it is inconvenient to bathe eared alone. It is necessary that one kept and the other washed.
- Type in a basin or sink water and pour a tablespoon of shampoo into it, foam it up.
- Holding the animal tightly, immerse it in water and wash the coat well.
- When swimming, make sure that water does not get into your ears, nose, eyes. The head cannot be wetted.
- Wash off the shampoo with warm water and as carefully as possible. On the skin should not remain a trace of detergent, so that the pet, having begun to lick itself, is not poisoned.
- Carefully wipe the eared. It is undesirable to dry the hair with a hair dryer; unnecessary extraneous sounds are additional stress - for a rabbit. In addition, his skin is very sensitive and he can get burned.
Important! The room in which the pet is located after bathing should be warm so that he does not catch a cold.
Partial
Partial bathing is a more gentle procedure for cleaning rabbit hair, it is applicable if you need to wash out separate parts of the body (ass, paws). In this case, also need an assistant. One person holds the eared, and the other gently lathers and rinses the contaminated parts of the pet's body. 
Then the rabbit is wrapped in a towel and wiped carefully.
Did you know? Rabbits of breed of Little Idaho - the smallest in the world. Adult weight - not more than 450 g, and the length of an adult animal - 22-35 cm
What to wash the eyes of rabbits
It so happens that the pet itself is clean, but his eyes need to be washed. Here are some examples of how to care for the eyes of an animal in various situations.
What to use if a rabbit has an infection in the eye:
- "Ofloxacin";
- "Ciprofloxacin" ("Cipromed", "Tsiprovet");
- "Tetracycline";
- Chloramphenicol (Levomitsetin);
- Gentamicin (Dex).
It will also be useful for you to learn how to care for ornamental rabbits, than to feed ornamental rabbits, and also find out what types of diseases are present in ornamental rabbits.
The animal has an allergy or it got a blunt eye injury:
- medicines for eyes with corticoids ("Dekt-2").
Ushastik was injured, pricked, cut, from a bite, or a foreign object got into the eye:- antibiotics (the same as for infections);
- corticoids, if there is severe edema and the cornea is intact;
- "Solcoseryl", "Korneregel" (accelerate healing).
Did you know? Rabbit eyes are arranged so that they can see everything that happens to them from behind, without turning their heads.
If the decorative rabbit is kept clean, does not walk on the street, all the requirements for caring for him are met, then bath procedures are unlikely to be needed. Nevertheless, there are different situations, so we hope that the information presented will be useful for you.
Following the recommendations, you will return to the animal the former beautiful look and preserve its health.
