bad tempered bunny I have left posts before regarding the same bad tempered bunny, well hes still as bad tempered. I have been trying to introduce a new female into the group for months now they have there hutches close together, the have all been fixed and when i tried to introduc them together in neutral territory the male pulled the new bunnies fur out then turned on the other female that hes been with for a couple of years and pulled her fur out too. My male bunny is a dwarf lop the older female a silver fox and newbie netherland dwarf the two females appear to be fine together its just him no matter if he has been in the place before or not it immediatley becomes his. What can I do? Its not only that, i have noticed when hes out in the garden which is rabbit proof so he gets the run of the whole thing if a bird or even a cat comes in the garden he will follow it and try to see it off. now ive already mentioned they are all fixed but even before the new rabbit came along i noticed his behaviour is worse than before the castration, i mean some of the cats round here are not small and they watch him run round the garden but if they step in thats it he´ll run away at first then turn and persue please help me i want bunny harmony. Ive done evrything i can think of any suggestion are gladly received no matter how small From the topic: Comments Post a comment in this discussion: 19 Jan 2009 12:00 Thank you all for your wonderful comments, but i have decided enough is enough and that it was not fair on the females what he was doing and so I have left jet and smudge together just like they have been since i got them and i went out and got skye a new boyfriend. I adopted him from pets at home hes a one year old netherland dwarf cross and he WAS called flopsy but now hes called bandit and they are very happy together they immediatly took to one another as skye has been looking lonely and was trying to get into the other rabbits cage but that caused smudge to attack jet because he coudnt attack skye. so my bunnies will all be happy now and bandit has got a second chance.Just need to fix him now so he can be in the same cage with skye, shes already done but and unfixed male is a randy male and skye is a little upset by his mounting her. so once again thank you for your help 18 Jan 2009 18:01 Member Removed he sounds a very territorial bun!! maybe he needs to be kept separate so he can see the rest of the group but not get to them and then maybe introduce the others for say 5 mins a day. if he misbehaves separate them again and so on. he is ruling the roost when he chases the cats off too. maybe his hormones have not settled down after the op. 17 Jan 2009 11:08  Description It sounds like he is just laying down the law to the females - to show he´s the boss. I had a female Millie who lost her mate Oscar and, after a few weeks, we found an abandoned male on the old railway line. After being in quarantine (as he had been among wild rabbits) I had him ´done´ & a month later introduced him to Millie. Straight away he tried to mount her & pull her fur out. I took him out & tried again a few days later. The same thing happened. Then on the third occasion, although he pulled a bit of her fur out, Millie accepted him & they´re now inseparable. I think this might be just normal male bunny behaviour rather than bad temperedness but, as Sarah advised, ask Freya as she has more experience of rabbits. 16 Jan 2009 12:15 He was fixed as soon as he came of the age when they can operate on him. He was not with the girl hes with now when i got him i got her first then a couple of weeks after she was settled i bought him and they got on like a house on fire once he told her he was boss, she was 12 weeks of age and he was only 7 weeks and even then he had a ´bad´ streak in him she loves to be cuddled and he doesnt i handle him as little as possible because he will tear my arm open(not deep) but you know how it is when they kick n hes good at doing a good job of making me bleed so i only really handle him to do the appropriate outdoor check like fleas and fly strike etc. Her i can handle with ease. I used to handle him all the time but as time went on he just wouldnt let me. I very much appreciate sarahs help and i have thought the same thing myself what if the op has not been performed properly and will get in contact with the vet 16 Jan 2009 11:28  forgot to add, try contacting Daisies Sanctuary (freya) on here, she specialises in "problem" bunnies and may be able to help you out a bit more than me 16 Jan 2009 11:27 how old was your boy when he was "done"? if it was later in life then it may be that he has too much testosterone in his system already and is used to acting like a dominant male. also, it may be that the operation was not done correctly or was not 100% successful so it may be worth taking him back to the vet to see if they can check this out or at least giving them a ring in this regard to see if that is possible. it may be that you just have a bad tempered bunny though. was he with the female he lives with now when you got him or did you introduce the pair? maybe he´s happy with just his one girl friend and is not interested in other company, in which case you may have to think about getting another friend for your new girl instead. |
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