A rabbit eating less, pooping less, or drifting off the normal food rhythm needs earlier seriousness, not hopeful waiting.
GI slowdown often reaches the human as a softer pattern first: less hay interest, fewer droppings, slower meals, smaller movement, or a rabbit who suddenly looks less like themselves. This page is here to interrupt the habit of waiting for total refusal before treating appetite and output drift like the warning it already is.
Respect the early drift before the emergency gets louder.
This page keeps the field-guide tone but slows one practical rabbit-care lane down into a clearer first read.
These pages still use the sanctuary-native rabbit study language, so the deeper reads feel like part of the same humane field guide.
Small supporting graphics for the things humans handle or set up around the rabbit.
These notes pull from the main Care chapter lessons and keep the subpage grounded in the real handbook.
These are the moments where humans should stop normalizing what they are seeing and take the rabbit seriously.
Care is not about blaming people for learning late. It is about making the wrong pattern visible early enough to change it.
Small before-you-assume checks that help humans slow down and choose safer care.
Special pages are not separate from Care. They sit under the major chapters and help humans go deeper without bloating the top level.
The rabbits still interact here — not as pasted-on mascots, but as the gentle guides teaching people how to care better.