xfarmxgirlx
New Kit
*all the bunnys are outdoors and bringing them in is not an option, I want to but I think rabbits should have very large houses*
about 6 months ago I got 3 dwarf lop rabbits (well 4, but one unfortunatly died), who we were told by a vet were 1 boy and two girls (we planned to have all three done) - a while later we found them fighting and check their gender, 3 boys so we split them up (in 3 pens in viewing range of each other) and took them to the vets the next day and they all got done on that day.
After several attempts at reuniting them they fight every time, once we fed them their brekfast together and they were great until they got bored with the food - then they fought and we split them up. We have given up all hope of reuniting them so now we dont try.
I have four rabbit places - a stable (all kitted out and bunny proof, straw on the floor, water bottle ect), a dog run (where we kept them firstly), a triangular prism shaped run/house (small) and a small cage (the nero 3, pets at home), so to make it fair so all the bunnys get some grass (from the dog run it has a back pen, then they swap between the nero cage and the "arc" as I call it. They swap about 3 times a day and stay in one all night.
As you may know most bunnys hate being picked up (mine do) and seeing as I need to pick them up several times a day to swap them into a different cage (it has the other ones scent in so if we need to bond them technically this should help), so this is making them frightened. The other day one of them kept turning back on me was going to bite or nip me, I don't know which. Then another turned and was definetly thinking of biting or nipping me.
Because I see them so much picking them up most of the time I see them is picking them up, so they probably think of me as picking them up ect. How do I I tame them because before I had to pick them up and when they were with eachother they were fine and friendly. I miss them like that and turning on me is not acceptable by them, I do have spare time but I own lots of other animals I care for to, I love the bunnys to bits =-)))))
sorry for the long post
about 6 months ago I got 3 dwarf lop rabbits (well 4, but one unfortunatly died), who we were told by a vet were 1 boy and two girls (we planned to have all three done) - a while later we found them fighting and check their gender, 3 boys so we split them up (in 3 pens in viewing range of each other) and took them to the vets the next day and they all got done on that day.
After several attempts at reuniting them they fight every time, once we fed them their brekfast together and they were great until they got bored with the food - then they fought and we split them up. We have given up all hope of reuniting them so now we dont try.
I have four rabbit places - a stable (all kitted out and bunny proof, straw on the floor, water bottle ect), a dog run (where we kept them firstly), a triangular prism shaped run/house (small) and a small cage (the nero 3, pets at home), so to make it fair so all the bunnys get some grass (from the dog run it has a back pen, then they swap between the nero cage and the "arc" as I call it. They swap about 3 times a day and stay in one all night.
As you may know most bunnys hate being picked up (mine do) and seeing as I need to pick them up several times a day to swap them into a different cage (it has the other ones scent in so if we need to bond them technically this should help), so this is making them frightened. The other day one of them kept turning back on me was going to bite or nip me, I don't know which. Then another turned and was definetly thinking of biting or nipping me.
Because I see them so much picking them up most of the time I see them is picking them up, so they probably think of me as picking them up ect. How do I I tame them because before I had to pick them up and when they were with eachother they were fine and friendly. I miss them like that and turning on me is not acceptable by them, I do have spare time but I own lots of other animals I care for to, I love the bunnys to bits =-)))))
sorry for the long post