Since I experienced this for the first time today I thought I would start a topic for anyone else that may happen to go through this.

Obviously the best thing to do is to prevent it.

At home I dont generally have a problem keeping the buns cool. I have multiple fans, lots of ventilation, and mist when the days are extrememly hot.

Some other preventative measures would be frozen bottles, ceramic tiles, if theyre outside keep them in the shade. Grooming moulting rabbits to rid them of excessive fur will help.

If you end up with a bunny having heat stroke here's what I did. I wet his ears with water and placed him in front of the fan. I used a syringe and force fed water to try to keep him hydrated. I bought a cold bottle of water and placed it beside him to cool him down. Of course I was on the road. If it happened here I would have syringed pedialyte instead.

Luckily, Nemo is doing great and seems unaffected by it. If anyone else has some tips or other things theyve done that helped or tried that didnt work feel free to add them. We can learn from what didnt work too.

GREAT post! I'm going to print this off and add it to my bunny binder.

I was going to post this someplace, and at this point, I'm not sure if I did or not LOL!

Yesterday, we almost lost our dog to heat. She is an outside dog and it just got her and she drank all of her water. We worry about her in cold temps but have never had to worry about her in the heat as she's under shade, has a big water bucket, near a stream and has a little house.... she digs in the dirt and lays down in the cool Earth.

Yesterday, when I found her, she was not moving much at all. I got her all cooled and we are now on a "check KC every 3 hours during the day" schedule. Regardless of where we are, someone gets her fresh water every 3 hours in the heat and at night she gets a fresh bucket before we retire.

PLEASE everyone keep them safe during the heat. It's harder on an animal to go from the heat to A/C but if you keep things around for them to cool themselves it's best. Our friends lost a goat to the heat yesterday, the pigs where are sheep are and our sheep were so hot. The kids sprayed them down every couple of hours all day and I went and got additional fans......

Poor dears don't sweat so they can't cool themselves....

I'm lucky we have A/C. When we babysat the neighbors dog, I would treat her with a popsicle. I plan to have watermelon for Pebbles.
For those that have pets outside or in a shed, use a sprinkler on them. Spray water on the building and roof to lower the temperature. Set a timer, so you can cool things down every half hour.

Remember, don't leave pets in a car. And if you have an emergency, don't cool them off too quickly, because the opposite can happen, their body temperature can go too low.

I'm looking at buying a day carrier for Pipp -- the cloth 'tote bunny' kind. It's padded with a black interior, so I was worried about the heat. There's no room in there for a frozen bottle, BUT ... my Mom gets medication shipped with flat, rectangular ice packets. One of those in the bottom of the carrier covered with a towel should do the trick. :)

(Hope she likes it). :happybun:

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Well Henry nearly died from it when we moved house. It was the hottest day of the year, or so it seemed and we were taking the buns up first with all the furniture in the back of the lorry (I had fun driving a 3.5tonne lorry:D). We stopped at the service station half way down and found Henry was roasting hot, panting like I'd never seen and wouldn't drink or eat anything...
So I took him into the ladies toilets and wet his ears with water. I was so worried... but remembered what I'd been told before about heat stroke, so I ran towels under cold water and stroked him with them.
We made tracks quick smart and got to our new house asap. I let Henry and Max out in the kitchen and he just flopped on the floor... he wouldn't even take any interest in Max (and he wasn't neutered at the time), even though she kept putting her head under him. Eventually he started hopping about, but it took about an hour... so I put a fan on and put them in their hutches to calm down. :( It was horrible, I thought I was going to lose him...
Max was fine though! She loves car journeys!

There are some great ideas here! Some i have thought of and some I hadn't.

It's so easy for EVERYONE but especially animals to get heat stroke. It's a good idea to remind ourselves regularly.

When KC was so hot and I gave her water, I had to limit it some. Then give her a bit more in a few minutes. When I started to cool her with water, I put it on her back and then put her feet into the pool and stroked her head with a water filled hand...... she came right out of it!

Prevention is the key, but emergency skills are also so very important!

When it was hot in my apartment, the cat used to lay against the porcelain toilet bowel on one side and the rabbit on the other.

Maggie got heat stroke once, it was scary she was laying down and shaking, and panting... poor girl.

I did the same as you, wet her ears, and put a fan on her, about 10 mins later she was back to being her binky self.

Lesson learned:

Don't take your bunny outside when its 75 degrees out and no shade...