emzyflower
New Kit
I have recently rescued a 4 month old lop. She has not yet been spayed. She is housed in a lovely two tier hutch and we have attached a run to the hutch. At night time I would like her secured into the hutch. I have managed to succeed in distracting her with food and closing the door to the run however when she has finished eating food she runs down to the lower level and starts freaking out that she is enclosed. She scratches at the newspaper shredding it and furiously gobbles the straw until she gets bored / full/ no attention from me. Today for the first time i have noticed the opposite problem. I closed the door to the hutch while i was cleaning it out and she started clawing straw into the run and chewing at the wood at the base of the hutch. It is like she is having a tantrum at every bedtime! Is this behaviour normal? Will it stop when she has been spayed?! I have noticed shes only like this when she has an audience. If we turn our backs on her she stops, but its still distressing to see her with what looks like pent up rage! She has never nipped or bitten us on going into her hutch and she is comfortable with us stroking her in there with the doors open or through the bars of the hutch. She has been with us for 1 week but we only fitted the run at the weekend and the problems started since her living and roaming space increased.