Our rescue bun Bella is a French Lop, 2.5 years old. The rescue was told by her owner that she's been spayed but I really need to make sure. We lost Ellie back in the summer, she didn't make it through her dental, and so Bella is supposed to be for our very lonely Bandit...but it's just not working out.
Bella is the most laid back rabbit I've ever met, she's just but her and Bandit have been living side by side for3 months and she still goes for him occasionally through the wires, like really goes for him...and all he wants to do is make friends it's so sad.
They are house bunnies and at night times I get Bella doing seriously loud buzzing round my ankles, climbing up my legs like she's going to hump me as I'm walking round, she chases me and nips the bottom of my legs. Do spayed bunnies do this? It just seems pretty hormonal behaviour. She's never shown any nesting behaviour though...
I was speaking to the vet and he's getting back to me with the best way to make sure she is spayed. Says there are a couple of ways, blood tests a few weeks apart to test hormone levels or alternatively open her up and see. He said even if she has been spayed if it wasn't done properly there could be a chance of a tiny piece of ovarian tissue been left behind somewhere which would still make her produce the hormones.
They are supposed to be going for bonding after Christmas but I don't think the bond stands any chance at all as she is, and Bandit is sooooo desperate for a friend He's my naughty BARC bunny so been neutered for best part of 4 years...and for the first time EVER it seems he's not the problem bless him :lol:
Bella is the most laid back rabbit I've ever met, she's just but her and Bandit have been living side by side for3 months and she still goes for him occasionally through the wires, like really goes for him...and all he wants to do is make friends it's so sad.
They are house bunnies and at night times I get Bella doing seriously loud buzzing round my ankles, climbing up my legs like she's going to hump me as I'm walking round, she chases me and nips the bottom of my legs. Do spayed bunnies do this? It just seems pretty hormonal behaviour. She's never shown any nesting behaviour though...
I was speaking to the vet and he's getting back to me with the best way to make sure she is spayed. Says there are a couple of ways, blood tests a few weeks apart to test hormone levels or alternatively open her up and see. He said even if she has been spayed if it wasn't done properly there could be a chance of a tiny piece of ovarian tissue been left behind somewhere which would still make her produce the hormones.
They are supposed to be going for bonding after Christmas but I don't think the bond stands any chance at all as she is, and Bandit is sooooo desperate for a friend He's my naughty BARC bunny so been neutered for best part of 4 years...and for the first time EVER it seems he's not the problem bless him :lol: