Rabbits should never be given a bath. A wet rabbit panics, and a panicking rabbit can injure its own spine struggling to get away, which leaves owners with a dirty patch of fur and no obviously safe way of dealing with it. A no-rinse foam exists for that exact problem: it lifts dirt out of the coat with no water, no immersion and no restraint worth speaking of.

You work a little into the soiled area with your fingers, give it a moment, then wipe it away with a cloth or a dry towel, and the coat comes up cleaner and smelling fresher. Because nothing is being rinsed, the rabbit stays dry and warm throughout, which is the entire point. The danger in bathing a rabbit is as much the chill and the shock afterwards as the water itself.

• No-rinse formula that needs no water
• Applied by hand and wiped away
• Spot-cleans soiled patches of coat
• A calmer alternative to a full bath
• Suits rabbits who find handling near water frightening

Two things worth knowing. More importantly, a rabbit with a persistently dirty back end is telling you something. Soft stools, obesity, arthritis and dental pain all stop a rabbit grooming itself, and in summer a soiled rabbit is at real risk of flystrike.

Who it's for: Rabbit owners dealing with the occasional dirty patch, and anyone whose rabbit finds water genuinely distressing.