Domino27
Mama Doe
Hi,
Shortly I am going to be looking after a rabbit whilst her owners are away on holiday. She's not coming to me though.
There are a few problems with this bun, she's a normal sized lop so a lot bigger than mine HOWEVER she was obviously bought as a kids pet and has clearly been neglected of human love. She's about 2/3 with a MAHOOSIVE dewlap and has the run of their garden. She is not neutered either so will attack anyone on her territoty - understandable.
The food she gets is (and I quote) "a banana in the morning, spends all day eating grass and then a carrot is thrown into the hutch for night"...due to this she can't understand why the rabbit has a mucky bum and has to be sedated to get it all cleaned up.
Now I have never had or dealt with an aggressive rabbit, I am going to go in all kitted up as apparently she goes for ankles and will sit and growl at you. I am obviously not going to be giving her any more banana or carrot and she'll be getting a bowl of exel pellets instead.
I'm going to try and sit with her and see if she trusts me over those two weeks, clearly it'll need months of work but sadly I can't do this nor can I take the rabbit off her as I have no room. I have given some words of advice re: food and neutering though.
Anyhoo....any advice of how to go about this??
:wave:
Shortly I am going to be looking after a rabbit whilst her owners are away on holiday. She's not coming to me though.
There are a few problems with this bun, she's a normal sized lop so a lot bigger than mine HOWEVER she was obviously bought as a kids pet and has clearly been neglected of human love. She's about 2/3 with a MAHOOSIVE dewlap and has the run of their garden. She is not neutered either so will attack anyone on her territoty - understandable.
The food she gets is (and I quote) "a banana in the morning, spends all day eating grass and then a carrot is thrown into the hutch for night"...due to this she can't understand why the rabbit has a mucky bum and has to be sedated to get it all cleaned up.
Now I have never had or dealt with an aggressive rabbit, I am going to go in all kitted up as apparently she goes for ankles and will sit and growl at you. I am obviously not going to be giving her any more banana or carrot and she'll be getting a bowl of exel pellets instead.
I'm going to try and sit with her and see if she trusts me over those two weeks, clearly it'll need months of work but sadly I can't do this nor can I take the rabbit off her as I have no room. I have given some words of advice re: food and neutering though.
Anyhoo....any advice of how to go about this??
:wave: