sillyrabbit
Wise Old Thumper
A couple of these questions I've meant to ask on here for ages, firstly does anyone know what breed my girl is? Someone mentioned on Scarlett's rainbow bridge thread that she is a white agouti, I don't know a lot about rabbit breeds to be honest but I thought agouti was a colour rather than breed, so if there is anything else that's obvious to you guys I would really appreciate if you could let me know. I've tried to post some pics of her at different angles
Second question is she seems to be obsessed with climbing, jumping and trying to get higher. I'm a bit worried she is going to hurt herself! She is very highly strung, I've never shut her in a cage or hutch, but I get the feeling it wouldn't go down well as she is constantly charging around and jumping and climbing. She will jump onto my kitchen counters, but she won't stop there she will then be looking to try and jump up higher, which she hasn't been able to try because I'm always there to stop her. She just runs across the room and will try to jump up the walls, and she easily gets to the height of the door, but obviously there is nothing up there for her to climb on so she falls back down. She tries to climb the blinds, we have to keep the blinds all the way up as high as they will go now, but she still tries to go for them. The way I go about managing this is one of us just has to follow her round and try and stop her from doing it. Her bedroom set up is an empty room with a dog crate, which she has a bed on top of now as she likes to sit up there, then she has steps and boxes etc to jump and climb on down on the floor. Then downstairs she has a cat tree with like steps so she can get to the window ledge, not that she uses the steps! She has plenty of toys, all different types
Someone at the rescue mentioned they thought she had wild in her, she is also very timid and like I said just has a massive amount of energy. Then someone else on here said too that she looks part wild. I have always wondered but I'm not sure how to tell for certain
We live in a really small open plan cottage, so when we have her downstairs we can't shut her off from say the kitchen, and I think even if we did she would just jump up the walls more. She will come over for attention and like jump at my head or try and climb up me
She is my fifth bunny, and I've never seen this behaviour before. It's not a problem, I will think she is amazing no matter how she behaves, I'm just wondering do other rabbits do this? And how do you manage it?! All I'm worried about is that she will hurt herself
Second question is she seems to be obsessed with climbing, jumping and trying to get higher. I'm a bit worried she is going to hurt herself! She is very highly strung, I've never shut her in a cage or hutch, but I get the feeling it wouldn't go down well as she is constantly charging around and jumping and climbing. She will jump onto my kitchen counters, but she won't stop there she will then be looking to try and jump up higher, which she hasn't been able to try because I'm always there to stop her. She just runs across the room and will try to jump up the walls, and she easily gets to the height of the door, but obviously there is nothing up there for her to climb on so she falls back down. She tries to climb the blinds, we have to keep the blinds all the way up as high as they will go now, but she still tries to go for them. The way I go about managing this is one of us just has to follow her round and try and stop her from doing it. Her bedroom set up is an empty room with a dog crate, which she has a bed on top of now as she likes to sit up there, then she has steps and boxes etc to jump and climb on down on the floor. Then downstairs she has a cat tree with like steps so she can get to the window ledge, not that she uses the steps! She has plenty of toys, all different types
Someone at the rescue mentioned they thought she had wild in her, she is also very timid and like I said just has a massive amount of energy. Then someone else on here said too that she looks part wild. I have always wondered but I'm not sure how to tell for certain
We live in a really small open plan cottage, so when we have her downstairs we can't shut her off from say the kitchen, and I think even if we did she would just jump up the walls more. She will come over for attention and like jump at my head or try and climb up me
She is my fifth bunny, and I've never seen this behaviour before. It's not a problem, I will think she is amazing no matter how she behaves, I'm just wondering do other rabbits do this? And how do you manage it?! All I'm worried about is that she will hurt herself
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