Owner and rabbit bonding

A three-month-old champagne the argent rabbit arrived home yesterday. I bought it from a rabbit farmer. To my surprise, the rabbit quickly got used to his new home. Less than two hours after check-in, he began to eat, wash, and stretch out in the cage. He is curious and when he let him freely in the room he immediately began to explore. However, there are two problems. The first is that the rabbit is not very social. He is calm when I am in his presence, he lets me touch, even on the tail. He had a pet session today and even purred with teeth. The problem is that he is not looking for attention. The human contact is somehow indifferent for him. The other problem is that the rabbit really HATES being picking. I know this is normal for rabbits, especially if they are not accustomed to young, but there are times when it is necessary. One is when I take it out of the cage. The cage is located high, on the level of my desk. I did it so that the rabbit could have contact with me because I spend a lot of time at the desk. And at home I have nowhere else to put the cage. But alas, as it is high, I have to take the rabbit when I take it out and put in the cage. The other case in which it is necessary to pick the rabbit is when I train him to hygienic habits. When he is out of the cage and going to defecate, I have to catch him and put him in his litterbox to find out where he should go. In that case, can the rabbit get used to me and build trust. I have a rabbit for the first time and these are serious difficulties. I wouldn't want rabbit just for watching. I want to have contact with him. In a previous topic I asked if it is right to take a very small bunny (1 month), but I realized that it is dangerous. I bought a bigger bunny, but it turns out it's not used to people well. His contact with a person was to get food and get vaccinated. Does it make sense to do it? I can always bring the rabbit back.

Rabbits get scared when you want to handle them because they are prey animals and so it is best if you don't handle him so often and allow him to come out of the cage on his own. As time goes by and he gets more trusting of you, he will become friendlier and as he knows you have the food this will encourage him to come to you. If you put hay in his litter tray, on top of newspaper or similar, this will encourage him to do his toilet in it as Rabbits like to eat while they use the toilet. Hopefully he will start to return to the litter tray when he wants to wee or pooh. If it is out of his reach he won't be able to do this and might get used to toileting around the house. Sometimes an unneutered bunny will not get the hang of using his litter tray until he is castrated. Hope this helps. Have you had a look on the Rabbit Welfare Association's website which is full of excellent advice.

Just to say, very briefly, that perhaps you are expecting too much from this rabbit who only came to you yesterday.
The other thing is they need lots of space but with a safe place: A hutch of at least 6ft x 2ft with a permanently attached run of 6ft x 3ft.

He will need time to get used to being stroked, some rabbits are naturally more sociable than others. As he is young he will also need time to learn to use a litter tray. I would follow the suggestion of putting hay in a litter box as they like to pee while eating. He will have accidents though while he gets used to it - that's to be expected and it's important that he doesn't get punished. In terms of poo, even litter trained rabbits will sometimes poo outside of their box, that's normal and there's no point trying to catch him every time as you will just scare him. Unneutered rabbits can spray urine as well so it woupd be a good idea to have him neutered when he is old enough.

It sounds like you might need to come up with a better plan for his housing so that he can freely come in and out of his cage. Also how big is the cage? If he is to be in there for long periods of time it does need to be quite large as others have said.

Oh, thank you all!

It's been a week since the rabbit arrived. He's already used to us, with the home, when I let him in the room he begins to explore. Everything looks ok, but I have the feeling that the rabbit is interested in me just to ask for food. Can I hope for a deeper relationship or is my bunny just not social?

I'm glad he seems to be settling well. His personality is still developing and is likely to change when he hits puberty (which could be any time now as you said he was 3 months old when you got him). Some are naturally more friendly than others. I have one who hates being stroked most of the time, that's just who she is. My other one will sit and be stroked for hours. They are all different and it will take time for his personality to emerge. I would recommend having him neutered soon to avoid any aggression associated with his hormones kicking in. It will also make toilet training easier.

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A week is not long at all, he needs to get used to you, on his terms. A good way to do this, is to just sit quietly on the floor, so you are at his level, and let him come to you, if that is what he wants. In time you could sit and maybe offer a treat. There is no guarantee that a bunny will want to socialise with a human, they are social animals, but with their own kind, however many of them will happily sit and enjoy being fussed.