Helenmarie85
Warren Scout
As most know we have two Bunnies, Rosie .. who is a lovely, lovely little lady, super friendly, loves cuddles and comes to you, licks you to death (swear she thinks shes a dog!) .. but Buster .. our male is the opposite .. he will come to you if you have something tasty and is happy to sit there to munch it while you hold it. But as soon as you go to stroke him hes off. So this is making it difficult for me to catch him outside the hutch. Today they have spent all day in the sun, on the grass in a big run we have bought. Rosie i let out the run and she hopped across the grass to the hutch (it was food time) ... Buster I knew if I let him out the run he would be near impossible to catch to get back in the hutch for the night. So I left him shut in the run so I could get in to get him. It took me quite some time to get him. Poor thing ended up squealing .. I'd never heard a rabbit squeal. I don't think I hurt him because I quickly put him down when he squealed. I think he was just scared by me trying to catch him poor thing. Also after I put him down he was hopping about as normal. I did then manage to get him but only because I think he was scared and froze to the spot I scooped him up and held him for a bit stroking him calmly and rubbing his nose and behind the ears. I think he did relax a little bit. I feel so bad he squealed. I have been to check on him several times and hes hopping about as normal, eating as normal etc so he appears to fine.
Is there anyway that I can make catching him to get him back in the hutch less traumatic for him. He has been like this since before we had him at 8/9 weeks. He was always the skittish one in the litter.
Is there anyway that I can make catching him to get him back in the hutch less traumatic for him. He has been like this since before we had him at 8/9 weeks. He was always the skittish one in the litter.