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Wildies

kazz

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Now I know the usual wildie traits are skittish and nervy. But what else suggests wildie? Certain tricks or definitive behaviour?

I ask because I wonder about Mia. I'm not 100% but I think she looks slightly like a wild rabbit however she has cheek tufts and a little fluffy bit between her ears that suggests lionhead. So iknow she isn't full, possibly far from. But she is very skitty and even after 3 months we have little improvement in reactions to humans. I know it could take years if at all. She has got so much better with sounds, the TV for example. Her confidence is better and she's definitely happier with Marley, even if she is the underdog she loves to sprawl out at the side of him and tend to his ears. Marley sometimes looks as if he wishes she'd never arrived and then he will groom her or put up with her sprawling on him.

If she is part wildie I want to adapt the way I do things to encourage and improve things for her.

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This is Mia. She's quite leggy and lithe and as I say skittish and nervy.
 
I wouldnt say she was half wild as the colours wouldnt match up ( shes a tortoiseshell, which requires two recessive genes one from each parent- and a wild rabbit wouldnt carry that recessive gene)

though its possible there is wild rabbit somewhere in her line, its equally as possible she is just a nervous rabbit and/or had very little socialisation with humans as she grew up.

I would recommend trying clicker training with her
 
She doesn't particularly look to have wild bun shape/colour.

A lot of behaviour is down to socialisation, on the plus side that means with some work you can often change it :) It sounds like she's pretty comfortable if she's stretching out and relaxing with Marley. Try just hanging about near her as much as possible without interacting. That's a sort of rabbit way of saying I want to be friends. Let her do the approaching :)
 
Thanks everyone!

I'm kind of glad, I'm very new to rabbits and although she is more confident than when first brought home, shes still very nervous. I would even assume the click of the clicker training would send her running. If I walk past she will dtay laid down but if my OH walks past she'll stand up ready to run. I walkes past the other day and she stayed still so I gave her a little nose rub but could tell she was terrified :(

If its feeding time she'll take it from my hand providing I've shook the bag first :lol:
 
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