BunnyBluebell
New Kit
Hello!
I got a female mini lop in November, when she was around 5 months old. Unfortunately she's been getting increasingly aggressive and bites me hard (drawing blood every time). She's very territorial around her cage + food bowl, so I always clean it out and put food in her bowl when she's not inside. This was manageable, but recently she's just been aggressively biting and digging at the things I use when cleaning her out eg. plastic bags, bites me a minute after begging to be petted, and today lunged and bit me totally unexpectedly when I was wasn't messing with her cage or trying to pet her.
Note that she is generally very comfortable around humans - will come over to me whenever I go in the room, climb over legs/jump on my back, and nudges my hand for pets. So I'm just feeling pretty stressed as I never know when she's going to be affectionate and just wants to be pet vs. when she's gonna attack!
I've booked her in for a spay next week and just wanted to ask if anyone has had successful experiences with behaviour changes after spaying a particularly aggressive rabbit? Or if you have any other tips for this sort of behaviour? She has a large room to herself, with various things to dig/chew/climb on and just goes in her cage at night.
Would hugely appreciate any help
I got a female mini lop in November, when she was around 5 months old. Unfortunately she's been getting increasingly aggressive and bites me hard (drawing blood every time). She's very territorial around her cage + food bowl, so I always clean it out and put food in her bowl when she's not inside. This was manageable, but recently she's just been aggressively biting and digging at the things I use when cleaning her out eg. plastic bags, bites me a minute after begging to be petted, and today lunged and bit me totally unexpectedly when I was wasn't messing with her cage or trying to pet her.
Note that she is generally very comfortable around humans - will come over to me whenever I go in the room, climb over legs/jump on my back, and nudges my hand for pets. So I'm just feeling pretty stressed as I never know when she's going to be affectionate and just wants to be pet vs. when she's gonna attack!
I've booked her in for a spay next week and just wanted to ask if anyone has had successful experiences with behaviour changes after spaying a particularly aggressive rabbit? Or if you have any other tips for this sort of behaviour? She has a large room to herself, with various things to dig/chew/climb on and just goes in her cage at night.
Would hugely appreciate any help