zayna1
Warren Scout
So my older bun who is now 9 or 10 months old has never been a very social rabbit. He will happily take food from me, but has never let me pet him, since 2 days after we brought him home. :S (the reason I bought him was because I was tricked into his 'cuddlyness' in the petshop...he was so sweet and affectionate there, but ever since he's been pretty miserable towards me :lol:. My other bun who he lives with was so friendly. I got her at 7 weeks, and she was so loving and affectionate. But ever since my parents decided to put them outside :evil::evil::evil: (from being inside) the older bun seems to have become a lot more skittish, and runs from my hand if I put it in the run, and so does the little one, when she used to come running over for a nose rub! She is now 15 weeks old (going to be spayed soon). I try to spend as much time with them as I can...at least an hour or two a day during school days, and obviously a lot longer during the weekends. However, i've tried louring them to me with treats, talking to them nicely, sitting on the floor reading a book and ignoring them...they do end up walking on my legs and sniffing me etc, but otherwise they ignore me and run around. They do come running over to me when it's food time though :lol:. I know some rabbits are just un-social. But it's sad how my younger bun used to be so affectionate, but is now so scared? She won't let me stroke her or anything anymore! (when she was outside for the first time, (i think it was the other weekend?) she would come running over for nose rubs etc, but gradually she has drifted away . They do seem happy in general. They are snuggling and grooming and binkying and playing...but they do have their odd arguments, and now the mini lop bun who was so tiny she could fit through the bars of her cage :shock::shock::shock: has almost outgrown her tubby-ish adult lionhead friend, and now she beats him up :lol: Do you have any suggestions as to how I can show her that i'm still me and that i'm not a threat? I'm slightly worried, because we left a colleague of my dads to look in on them for a couple of days while we weren't home the week before last....and I did show him how to handle them etc, but he said he had to clean out their shed because one of them had diarrhea (i think it was from too much veg) and whilst doing so he had put them into their carriers. So do you think that this must've stressed them out or something? He said they were fine, but I think they must have been shaken by a new huge man taking them out of their home, into a box and left them there while he was scrubbing their floor :lol: then putting them back in again? eeh i dunno, maybe i'm imagining things, but i want my little miss affectionate bundle, and my not-so affectionate mr silly back