PET TALK

With The Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright

Q AVet Peter Wright works at Skeldale Veterinary Centre, the original James Herriot practice in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, and he’s also star of TV’s The Yorkshire Vet which is on Tuesdays at 8pm on Channel 5. Is it normal for with nutrients my rabbit to called caecotrophs. eat his own poo? When your rabbit eats his Yes. This is not food, the goodness is absorbed just normal but from his small intestine. vital to their health. Whatever is not digested then Rabbits produce ferments and is passed out as two types of faeces caecotrophs. When eaten again, – a small, dry waste all the vitamins can be absorbed pellet and a larger, so please give him every chance softer one packed to feast on his own faeces.