KGJxx
New Kit
Hi!
This is my first post here, I have a beautiful lionhead rabbit who is approx 8 years old, who is for the most part happy and very healthy but she has some strange quirks.
The strangest thing she does (aside from being addicted to eating paper and cardboard, she is mad for it and has recently demolished an entire cardboard box over a few weeks - but that's a topic for another post), is she refuses to walk on any hard surfaces. She will only walk on grass or carpet.
She is a house rabbit (although sometimes I take her over to my nans and we let her run around in the garden which she likes), and the majority of my apartment has wooden floors. We always wondered why she wouldn't roam the whole place - it took us a while for us to realise what was constricting her to one area. She simply does not like hard surfaces. She is so picky about going on the floor that there have been times where we could see she wanted to go somewhere but wouldn't and we have had to lay a mat down for her to cross.
If we pick her up and put her on the wooden floor she will freeze, look around and then very slowly start inching her way back to safety of the carpet, usually pressed very closely against a wall. She stays in our bedroom which is quite large and she runs around and jumps on the bed, but she won't come out except to use her litter tray, which she will leap into to avoid much walking on the floor. Sometimes we'll pick her up and bring her through to the living room where she will sit on the sofa or run around on the rug. I know that if our whole apartment was carpeted she would go wherever she pleases.
It is quite funny really and we joke about her being a special snowflake and a princess, but does anyone know why she might do this? I hope that this isn't actually distressing for her or a serious behavioural issue?
This is my first post here, I have a beautiful lionhead rabbit who is approx 8 years old, who is for the most part happy and very healthy but she has some strange quirks.
The strangest thing she does (aside from being addicted to eating paper and cardboard, she is mad for it and has recently demolished an entire cardboard box over a few weeks - but that's a topic for another post), is she refuses to walk on any hard surfaces. She will only walk on grass or carpet.
She is a house rabbit (although sometimes I take her over to my nans and we let her run around in the garden which she likes), and the majority of my apartment has wooden floors. We always wondered why she wouldn't roam the whole place - it took us a while for us to realise what was constricting her to one area. She simply does not like hard surfaces. She is so picky about going on the floor that there have been times where we could see she wanted to go somewhere but wouldn't and we have had to lay a mat down for her to cross.
If we pick her up and put her on the wooden floor she will freeze, look around and then very slowly start inching her way back to safety of the carpet, usually pressed very closely against a wall. She stays in our bedroom which is quite large and she runs around and jumps on the bed, but she won't come out except to use her litter tray, which she will leap into to avoid much walking on the floor. Sometimes we'll pick her up and bring her through to the living room where she will sit on the sofa or run around on the rug. I know that if our whole apartment was carpeted she would go wherever she pleases.
It is quite funny really and we joke about her being a special snowflake and a princess, but does anyone know why she might do this? I hope that this isn't actually distressing for her or a serious behavioural issue?