Jessica Rabbit
Mama Doe
Good Morning
O.K - still learning, so yet another query I'm afraid.
Eric (seperated from brother Ernie this week) is really stroppy.
Both Rabbits are being neutered in just under 4 weeks and I know hormones are raging.
But I put Eric in his Hutch for bed last night and he had a paddy. Chewing Newspaper and generally bad attitude. So I let him out for a short run and put him back. He was fine. He had Hay and food to eat. So i left him to it.
This morning, I went up to his hutch to say good morning and get him out and he just kept picking up his food bowl and trying to throw it. Then he tipped it over, so it was upside down.
So I thought, pent up energy, let him out.
No. He just sat there as though to say "I'm not happy with you. I think I'll stay here. So I ignored him, and he did finally decide to get out and actually just pottered over to his run and got in. He did a few binkys and was fine.
I can only put his behaviur down to a few things:
He was in his run almost all day yesterday(except 45 mins run around yesterday morning)
He seems to have taken a dislike to his peletts and straw. He will eat it if he has to, but I know he prefers grass and spinach and carrots.
But I am concerned about how much of the spinach and carrots he can have??
Should I be looking for different pellets and straw, or just leave him to it, in the hope that if he's really hungry he will eat whats there?
As for the behaviour, I think he just wants to be free all day to roam the garden. But I am not around to let him do that. So he has to stay in his run. which is 6 ft long.
How can I get him to get rid of the excess energy through the day. He has a tunnel, a football and toys and usually a good hour run around in the evening.
Unfortunately, now the two boys have been seperated, I have to give them each 1 hour run around seperately, whereas before they could have 2 hours together. If that makes sense.
Sorry it is so long, but how do I deal with a very active, stroppy bun.
Thank you all again
O.K - still learning, so yet another query I'm afraid.
Eric (seperated from brother Ernie this week) is really stroppy.
Both Rabbits are being neutered in just under 4 weeks and I know hormones are raging.
But I put Eric in his Hutch for bed last night and he had a paddy. Chewing Newspaper and generally bad attitude. So I let him out for a short run and put him back. He was fine. He had Hay and food to eat. So i left him to it.
This morning, I went up to his hutch to say good morning and get him out and he just kept picking up his food bowl and trying to throw it. Then he tipped it over, so it was upside down.
So I thought, pent up energy, let him out.
No. He just sat there as though to say "I'm not happy with you. I think I'll stay here. So I ignored him, and he did finally decide to get out and actually just pottered over to his run and got in. He did a few binkys and was fine.
I can only put his behaviur down to a few things:
He was in his run almost all day yesterday(except 45 mins run around yesterday morning)
He seems to have taken a dislike to his peletts and straw. He will eat it if he has to, but I know he prefers grass and spinach and carrots.
But I am concerned about how much of the spinach and carrots he can have??
Should I be looking for different pellets and straw, or just leave him to it, in the hope that if he's really hungry he will eat whats there?
As for the behaviour, I think he just wants to be free all day to roam the garden. But I am not around to let him do that. So he has to stay in his run. which is 6 ft long.
How can I get him to get rid of the excess energy through the day. He has a tunnel, a football and toys and usually a good hour run around in the evening.
Unfortunately, now the two boys have been seperated, I have to give them each 1 hour run around seperately, whereas before they could have 2 hours together. If that makes sense.
Sorry it is so long, but how do I deal with a very active, stroppy bun.
Thank you all again