rabbit mad
Warren Scout
Okay guys, here is the situation.
I have a lovely little lop who we believe is between 1 and 2 years old. He was bonded with Ruby who was such a laid back bunny and wasnt bothered by him the slightest, (ruby died a fortnight ago).
Barnaby has always been a struggle to get to show affection to me and my hubby, but would eventually come to us.
Since Ruby died, he has been a nightmare, when the other buns are in the garden he comes to the front of his run and will let me scratch his nose through the bars, but that is it, he runs away like the devil is chasing him, even if I am just lifting up the run lid to check his food, he will play with the long handled broom, but if it gets to close to me he stomps and legs it again.:roll:
I would like to bond him again to another female, but he really needs to calm down before we do this, he has shown aggression to the other buns, so I would not even think twice about putting another rabbit in their with him at the moment, (think bad of me as much as you like but I am NOT risking hurting another rabbit)
So what I am asking is, has anyone got any ideas how I can tame him, I was thinking of maybe sitting in his run with him, not necessarily touching him to start of with, and slowly developing our relationship from their, but would this stress him to much.....
When I first got him he was a bit of a scatter brain, but he really calmed down and would love a cuddle, (okay for the whole 2 minutes but still) it was progress, and he would play around my legs whilst I was cleaning them out/feeding them etc
Any way any advice would be appreciated, but please be kind, I am still trying to get over the loss of Ruby.
Thanks
Kelly xxx:wave:
I have a lovely little lop who we believe is between 1 and 2 years old. He was bonded with Ruby who was such a laid back bunny and wasnt bothered by him the slightest, (ruby died a fortnight ago).
Barnaby has always been a struggle to get to show affection to me and my hubby, but would eventually come to us.
Since Ruby died, he has been a nightmare, when the other buns are in the garden he comes to the front of his run and will let me scratch his nose through the bars, but that is it, he runs away like the devil is chasing him, even if I am just lifting up the run lid to check his food, he will play with the long handled broom, but if it gets to close to me he stomps and legs it again.:roll:
I would like to bond him again to another female, but he really needs to calm down before we do this, he has shown aggression to the other buns, so I would not even think twice about putting another rabbit in their with him at the moment, (think bad of me as much as you like but I am NOT risking hurting another rabbit)
So what I am asking is, has anyone got any ideas how I can tame him, I was thinking of maybe sitting in his run with him, not necessarily touching him to start of with, and slowly developing our relationship from their, but would this stress him to much.....
When I first got him he was a bit of a scatter brain, but he really calmed down and would love a cuddle, (okay for the whole 2 minutes but still) it was progress, and he would play around my legs whilst I was cleaning them out/feeding them etc
Any way any advice would be appreciated, but please be kind, I am still trying to get over the loss of Ruby.
Thanks
Kelly xxx:wave: