We have 2 male rabbits, that are about 8 months old and we had them from 2 months old. They have both been neutered. However one is prone to be aggressive.
Today, we have woken up to find that one rabbit (the placid one) has a large chunk of its ear missing.
One rabbit has typically been placid and the other one aggressive, which we realised very early on. I handled the aggressive rabbit a lot straight away to try to tame it as much as possible. We have 2 young children (5 and 7) and could not risk this rabbit hurting them.
For the most part they do seem to get on ok. They lie down together, and the placid one spends a lot of time grooming the aggressive one!
However they have had a couple of fights before, one of which was a trip to the vets, antibiotics to treat an infection and a £85 vet bill.
My young daughter is too scared of this rabbit and it has bitten her, it has attacked my mum when she was trying to feed it, my husband wears large gardening gloves to handle it as he is too scared of it. My 7 year old son will feed it, but will not dare pick it up. I am the only person who can really handle this rabbit.
We have now separated the rabbits after today’s fight, but not sure what we should do now?
Should we keep them apart? We wanted 2 for companionship. Also if reintroduced, would this cause more problems? Is there anything we can do to stop this aggressive behaviour? Is there anything a vet could do to help? We are not sure if we can even keep this rabbit because of its behaviour and being around young children, but this would upset my daughter as it is her rabbit but she does not want to touch it any more as too scared.
Also any tips on how to avoid an infection on the rabbit’s ear? It looks ok so far.
We would appreciate any advice? Thank you.
Today, we have woken up to find that one rabbit (the placid one) has a large chunk of its ear missing.
One rabbit has typically been placid and the other one aggressive, which we realised very early on. I handled the aggressive rabbit a lot straight away to try to tame it as much as possible. We have 2 young children (5 and 7) and could not risk this rabbit hurting them.
For the most part they do seem to get on ok. They lie down together, and the placid one spends a lot of time grooming the aggressive one!
However they have had a couple of fights before, one of which was a trip to the vets, antibiotics to treat an infection and a £85 vet bill.
My young daughter is too scared of this rabbit and it has bitten her, it has attacked my mum when she was trying to feed it, my husband wears large gardening gloves to handle it as he is too scared of it. My 7 year old son will feed it, but will not dare pick it up. I am the only person who can really handle this rabbit.
We have now separated the rabbits after today’s fight, but not sure what we should do now?
Should we keep them apart? We wanted 2 for companionship. Also if reintroduced, would this cause more problems? Is there anything we can do to stop this aggressive behaviour? Is there anything a vet could do to help? We are not sure if we can even keep this rabbit because of its behaviour and being around young children, but this would upset my daughter as it is her rabbit but she does not want to touch it any more as too scared.
Also any tips on how to avoid an infection on the rabbit’s ear? It looks ok so far.
We would appreciate any advice? Thank you.