For the first few years I had Pluto, I thought I was grooming him enough because I would follow him around and brush him until he ran away. And every summer he would have a short but terrifying bout of GI stasis.
Last year, I read on this subreddit that some people put their bunny in a towel-lined laundry basket to groom them. Genius! Doing this every few days, I was able to comb way more fur off him than before. We didn’t have any episodes of stasis last year, even with a dental issue that impacted his ability to eat hay!
To make it less stressful and prevent him escaping, beforehand I slice a banana into teeny chunks and feed him them throughout the brushing or when cleaning the comb. He still hates the grooming, but he loves the nanners so much that he jumps into the laundry basket himself throughout the day!
by AmandaCath