How to Teach a Baby Rabbit to Drink From a Water Bottle

Baby rabbits require special care and must be fed baby rabbit formula while they are growing and cannot drink on their own. Once your baby rabbit grows large enough to drink on its own, it can either drink from a water bowl or special pet water bottle. Water bowls can spill and prove messy, while a pet water bottle is a cleaner solution. It takes some practice, but you can follow a few steps and easily teach your baby rabbit to drink from a water bottle.

Things You'll Need

  • 16 ounce pet water bottle
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Instructions

    • 1

      Fill the water bottle with water. Leave the bottle on a counter or table for thirty minutes until it reaches room temperature. Hang the bottle on the side of your rabbit's cage.

    • 2

      Show your baby rabbit the bottle. Press its nose gently onto the bottle so a drip of water comes out.

    • 3

      Put the formula you were feeding it in the water bottle if it does not drink the water. Hang the bottle back on the side of the cage and let your baby rabbit drink the formula from the bottle until it gets used to drinking that way. Switch back to water after the rabbit has been drinking from the bottle for four to five days.

    • 4

      Hold the water bottle like a baby bottle and feed it to the rabbit if it still won't drink on its own. Continue doing this for four to five days, until the rabbit is used to drinking this way. Hang the bottle on the side of the cage.