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Forum DIET & CARE How old are your bun(s)?

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    • LoveChaCha
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        How old are your bunnies?

        What behaviors do they exhibit due to their age?

        After Chacha turned 1, she has been a bit lazy, loves to lounge around a nap. She is not as hyper as she used to be, but that is okay with me. She still favors my blankets over HERS.  She is a year and 5 months old

        I’ve rabbit proofed my bedroom a bit, and I’ve been letting her in. The days that I don’t, she goes up to my door and waits … and when I do let her in, she likes to jump onto my bed. She never let me pet her while she was on my bed, but.. she did a few nights ago and I melted


      • peppypoo
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          Remi is just under a year right now, Peppy should be 1 year 1 month, and Milo is around 1.5 years old. I actually don’t have definitive birthdays/ages for any of them, since all of them were “secondhand bunnies,” lol.

          Both Remi and Peppy were little terrors from about 6 months to 1 year…Peppy has mellowed out a lot more now with her destructiveness, THANK GOODNESS lol. Remi is starting to get there too, but he’s still a little too fond of the carpet. As for Milo, I’ve only had him for a month, and he’s warming up to us more every day!


        • LoveChaCha
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            I had no idea Remi and Peppy were terrors ;D

            Maybe Milo is showing Peppy the way of the.. calm bunny?


          • Sarita
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              Well, I think Bobby is about 2 years old, but I have no clue really. That was the vet’s best guess from what I understand.

              My others are between 8 and 9 years old at my best guess. I’ve had them for at least 8 years so they are approximately 8 or 9 years old. They are basically just loafers and take life easy at this age.


            • Michelle&Lolli
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                Lolli will be 3 in September. She has become a lot more lovey dovey but it’s still all on her terms. She was always a loafer so I haven’t noticed a huge change in her energy level.


              • Helenor
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                  Lago is now a year old and has calmed down quite a bit. Panko is 8 months and is getting himself into mischief and loves racing around and around the room. He is kinda being a bully towards poor Lago too.


                • peppypoo
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                    Posted By LoveChaCha on 04/26/2011 12:13 PM

                    I had no idea Remi and Peppy were terrors ;D

                    Maybe Milo is showing Peppy the way of the.. calm bunny?

                    Haha Peppy was most definitely a terror…my boyfriend and I were reminiscing this past weekend over Peppy’s “teenage” months, and just how frustrating it got at some points.  Every other second was “NO!”.  Remi’s main problem is the carpet; he doesn’t really eat it but he pulls up the corners which is driving my mom up the wall, lol!
                     

                    We like to joke that Milo is actually a SUPER RAGING ANGRY BUNNY that wants to bite us and destroy everything in his path, except he can’t because he has no incisors.  So instead of realizing that he is trying to act out, we just go “aww what a cute bunny” *pet pet*.  Poor little guy, lol! (I really don’t think he’s that angry, it’s just kind of an amusing thought hehe).


                  • Elrohwen
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                      Otto is two and Hannah is four. I had Otto as a baby and his personality really didn’t change at all. He’s more grumpy now, but that change seemed to come with bonding him to Hannah. He’s always been lazy and content to lay around with his feet kicked out behind him.

                      I got Hannah at age 3, so I can’t tell how she’s changed from a baby. She still has a ton of energy and is always doing something and on the lookout. She can be timid and jump at loud noises, but can then be very brave and jump up to very high places. If she’s this active now, I don’t want to know what she was like as a baby! Haha. She did seem to calm down once she was bonded to Otto – she’ll lay out in the middle of the room with him and would never do that on her own.

                      So I guess I’ve found that their personalities changed more by being bonded together than with age.


                    • mossling
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                        both of mine are under a year. rue will be three months in a few days, and while i don’t have nut puppet’s actual birthday, i was told he was almost four months.

                        personality wise, they are night and day! rue is mellow. i walk in the room and if she is out, immediately runs up for some loves. if she’s in her pen, she starts rattling the bars until i reach in to pet her. she doesn’t dig or chew anything she’s not suppose to. she loves to snuggle and hang out on the couch with me after goose goes to bed at night. she spends most of her time just sort of hanging out. puppet, on the other hand, is a little crazy! he is never still and always on the move. he does zoomies and binkies and FLIES from one end of the house to the other. he hops from flat on the floor to the back of the couch. he has to be watched like a hawk because he digs and chews and gets into everything! he’s started letting me pet him more, but never for more than a few seconds at a time before he’s off again.


                      • SugarbearNPepper
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                          Both of my buns are 4 months old. My boy Sugarbear used to love pets and for me to hold him, but not so much anymore. He’s definitely more interested in my girl bunny Pepper now than he is me! It is definitely time for his neuter! My Peppergirl loves pets and likes to be held. I keep them in separate NIC cages and hoping in a couple of months after their surgeries they can be housed together! They’re both wonderful and love them so much!


                        • Huckleberry
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                            Huckleberry turned 1 in March. She has always been a lazy, independent bun. Over the past couple of months, she has grown more loving. We had no doubt she loved us, but lately she has been extra affectionate. She gives more kisses and joins us in the living room to watch tv more often. When I fall asleep on the couch (which is way too often) she lays down and sleeps on the floor next to me.


                          • Joyfull_music
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                              Momo is almost 7 months, but has been spayed for less than a week. We are still figuring out how the spay has affected her behavior, since the vet said it may take a few weeks for the hormones to fully be gone.

                              Before her spay, she would kick all of the litter out of her box multiple times a day. She would leave her bunny poops everywhere. She would also pee on use and blankets.

                              Since the spay she has not kicked out her litter box, and is not so bad with the pooping. However, she is spending more time in her pen then usual until her stitches are healed.


                            • Dee
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                                This is a cool topic . My bunnies are both around 3 years old. Nelli was definitely born in March 2008, and we have figured out that BunBun was born in Feb-March 2008. At first we weren’t sure how old he was- we took him to the vet to be neutered and the policy there is bloodwork on all rabbits over 1 yr old before neuter, and the vet didn’t want bloodwork so we assumed he looked young. Also, our nextdoor neighbors said the OTHER neighbors, who let him loose, only had him for a few months. Then, as we grew more attached and he grew lazier, I started to really worry that he was actually ancient and began planning ways to reform the house for a geriatric bunny. (Hamsters often need their tunnels put horizontally so they can get up/down safely so I thought maybe bunnies shouldn’t jump high when they’re older). The age problem was somerwhat solved when I realized that when we got Bunbun, he could easily slip between the rungs on our staircase bannister. In 2009, there was no WAY he would have a prayer of fitting through there- I don’t think his shoulders would even get through before he got wedged in! Then it started to make sense- the neighbors probably got him around Easter as a baby bunny, kept him in the house (we know this) and then when he started spraying at about 4 months, kicked him out . That’s when we found the hormonal little maniac in the back yard.
                                BunBun has gotten calmer with age, but neutering and bonding him with Nelli also helped. He has always been rather destructive (he ripped apart our last couch) but he’s gotten better. Now he just chews on anything wood or books/magazines and sometimes peels paper off the walls. He has never been much of a binkier- only once in a while- but he can jump really high! He’s so little (4 1/2 lbs) it surprises me.
                                Nelli has gotten less jumpy, but that may just from not being as afraid as she was. When we first got her she was crazy- she would just glimpse one of our shadows and start dashing around, bouncing off the walls in an effort to escape. It was sad, and we worried that she was going to hurt herself. She was already fixed when we adopted her (she was 5 months old). Fortunately she fully bonded with Bunbun within 2 weeks (easiest bond ever!) and he helps her feel safe- she always hides behind him although she’s way bigger than him- lol. She still ducks away lots of times when we try to pet her and only my wonderful bunny groomer, Diane, can pick her up. But she loves pets when she’s in the mood, and she does incredible binkies. Every night she has her “exercise time” when she charges from one place to another, binkies and doing 360’s. Her new thing is leaping from the floor to a chair to the kitchen table and back again and again with lightning speed- scares the cr@p outta me.


                              • Cheyann
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                                  Maddie is around 8 but I dont know for sure. She was originally found as a stray. She is very lazy and has been since I got her about 3-4 years ago. I think she was lazier before because in her previous home she was bonded with another bunny and he died so she got depressed. Since bonding her with Minnie she has been more active and happier. She always follows Minnie around. But she is still pretty lazy.

                                  Minnie is around 2 I think. I dont know for sure but I should. I got her as a baby but I have a terrible memory. She is very active. She is always digging, running round or tossing something. She can be destrctive but if I give her enough toys and rotate out toys often enough she does not destroy anything.


                                • LittlePuffyTail
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                                    Stormy – 7
                                    Bindi Loo- 4
                                    Olivia- 4 (we we’re told she was 1 when we got her but I have no proof, she was fully-grown)

                                    I think anyone that sees Stormy during play time would be surprised that he is a senior bun. He is quite often even more active than my other two. He has mellowed out some, temperament wise, in the last few years, however. He’s more cuddly and has less tantrums.


                                  • charcoal's mom
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                                      She’s less than a year old. About 7 weeks old. not so sure… all i know she was born on the month of march.

                                      She’s a bit moody right now… one day she wants me to play and cuddle her…. the next she doesn’t want to do anything with me. She sleeps a lot, eats a lot, poops a lot… when I let her on my bed she zips about and binkies, she doesn’t let me touch her… but when she tires, she gets close to me and flops beside me and lick my hand to have me pet her.


                                    • Sam and Lady's Human
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                                        Bunny is about 10 weeks, he seems really small though so I’m wondering if he’s closer to 8. He’s still very chill, lets me pet him, hold him, I even had him on his back (supported in my legs) for about 15 minutes while I was cleaning his bum(yech), he didn’t even flinch. He might have even dozed? He’s litterbox trained so far, I’m shocked. He’s really mellow, I think due to his age. He does a couple crazy runs around the bedroom, but mostly hangs out and watches everyone.


                                      • LoveChaCha
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                                          OneTwoThree, I think you had him in a trance.

                                          You have a Lionhead, right? They tend to get full sized very slowly, compared to dwarf rabbits.

                                          That is great he is litter trained, yay


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                                            AGE: 
                                            When I adopted Jack in 2004, he was estimated to about 1 1/2 – 2 years.  So that makes Jack at least – 8 1/2 – 9 years old. 

                                            I adopted Vivian in 2009, and she was estimated to be at least 6 years old, but the vet though she might be even older. So she is at least 8, but she could be over 9 years old.  

                                            AGE RELATED BEHAVIORS: 

                                            Much less energy over the years with Jack. He was much busier and would do a ton of binkies and race around in his younger days. He’s also get into lots of trouble finding things to chew on that he wasn’t supposed to.  As he aged, he is less interested — sort of “been there, done that” kind of tude. He might do a binky, but with his arthritis, it doesn’t look that comfortable for him.  Five years ago he was too ancy to be pet for longer than 10 minutes, now he’d let you pet him for an hour (or more I’m sure).   He’s all around more calm.   This last year, he is even more of a lounger than ever.  He does get busy late late at night and in the morning we can hear him running down the hallway, but in general he has slowed even more this year. 

                                            I got Vivian as a older gal and like Jack, she is pretty calm energy wise, but she has a bit more get up and go, more curiosity and longer sense of play. She doesn’t show any signs of arthritis though like Jack has.  

                                            With these older bunnies, I never have to worry about them tearing up the carpet, or the baseboard or just being all around mischevious bunnies.  I have a nighttime routine of getting sleepy by hanging out in the bunny room (unless Jack and Vivian come out to the livingroom) and just petting them. It helps me settle out of the day into the calmness of senior bunniess.  I love it.  

                                            Oh….and of course with less energy, they can carry a bit more weight.  When I was at the rescue finding a mate for Jack, I remember Marcy telling me she could many times tell the relative age of a bunny by their body shape.   (of course that is not guarantee) but in general younger bunnies will be leaner, have more muscle tone.   Older bunnies will put on some pudge or just not be as lean even if they are not carrying extra weight. 

                                            I have found this to be true for both Jack and Vivian.  I also noticed with Jack(and Rucy and Bailey too), that where they carried their weight changed too– more around the mid section and muscle tone was not as strong on their back — i could feel their spine and ribs more even if they were at the right weight.  

                                            Vivian is still a hardy gal and has muscle tone on her back though– she actually is a solid sturdy thick bunny.  She could probably lose a few pounds though and since she likes to still explore, I’m sure I could work on getting her weight down by encouraging more exercise 

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