Rosa
New Kit
Hello everyone!
Recently I purchased a beautiful Mini Lion Lop who I have named Benjamin. He's currently a little over 10 weeks old and is very well socialised.
Over the last few days he's started biting. Not full on biting, but what I call "warning bites" that don't break the skin. He does it when we go to stroke him or sometimes when he's on our laps and having a cuddle. This is especially weird as he seems to be in a great mood, even binkieing just before I go to say hi to him.
His diet is mostly hay but I also feed him Rabbit Royale as that's what he was fed before I got him. I was told I was over feeding him the Rabbit Royal so over the last 4-5 days his portion has shrunk from a bowlful (I hadn't done my research and feel so silly for giving him so much!! ) down to a handful or a tablespoons worth. He has an indoor run and an outside hutch. The hutch isn't currently complete as we don't want to put him on grass yet so he is in the top most section which is 2.5 foot long (ish) and about half as wide. the indoor run is about 1.4m square and 0.7m high (ish) so he has a lot more room to explore and jump in.
He hasn't been neutered yet because the vets can't see his testacles as they haven't dropped yet. Could this be the reason?
Would really appreciate some insight on the causes and what I can do to help stop this behaviour, he's my first bunny and the books I'm currently reading don't have anything on behaviour in them. Thank you!
(ps- sorry for any bad spelling, dyslexia makes spelling troublesome!)
Recently I purchased a beautiful Mini Lion Lop who I have named Benjamin. He's currently a little over 10 weeks old and is very well socialised.
Over the last few days he's started biting. Not full on biting, but what I call "warning bites" that don't break the skin. He does it when we go to stroke him or sometimes when he's on our laps and having a cuddle. This is especially weird as he seems to be in a great mood, even binkieing just before I go to say hi to him.
His diet is mostly hay but I also feed him Rabbit Royale as that's what he was fed before I got him. I was told I was over feeding him the Rabbit Royal so over the last 4-5 days his portion has shrunk from a bowlful (I hadn't done my research and feel so silly for giving him so much!! ) down to a handful or a tablespoons worth. He has an indoor run and an outside hutch. The hutch isn't currently complete as we don't want to put him on grass yet so he is in the top most section which is 2.5 foot long (ish) and about half as wide. the indoor run is about 1.4m square and 0.7m high (ish) so he has a lot more room to explore and jump in.
He hasn't been neutered yet because the vets can't see his testacles as they haven't dropped yet. Could this be the reason?
Would really appreciate some insight on the causes and what I can do to help stop this behaviour, he's my first bunny and the books I'm currently reading don't have anything on behaviour in them. Thank you!
(ps- sorry for any bad spelling, dyslexia makes spelling troublesome!)