Wondering about my rabbit

[Marisa]

Okay hello binkybunny users!

On Thanksgiving, my bestest friend past.. my black mini lop babygirl Bella. She was only a year and 2 months old and she had choked to death in my arms and I couldn’t save her  My boyfriend bought her for me for Christmas the last year and she was scared at first but then we got so close!! We would cuddle like every day non stop and all she wanted to do was kiss me!! Literally wouldn’t stop. We’d take naps together, and she’d always interrupt me just to say hi and stuff. It was always me and her, she ran around all day in my room and computer room with me when I was home and sometimes in the cage when I wasn’t. I sometimes kept her out because I trusted her because she was pretty good. But one night, my sheet to my bed was off in one spot and it showed my foam.. and she apparantly chewed A LOT of it. She had chewed it before so I thought it was okay.. she knew she did something wrong so I put her in her cage right away!!  But the next morning she seems “tired”.. When I let her out of her cage she kinda just wandered away which she’s done when she was very tired and cranky, but then I saw her about an hour or two later and she was sitting in a position she usually does and I went to pick her up to kiss her and I felt her chest like.. drooped and she made a weird noise and so i went to get my mom and she was like heaving and making such a breathing noise.. i can’t describe and it was thanksgiving and I couldn’t get a hold of anyone obviously and I tried to Heimlich her but it didn’t work and I think putting her on her back might have made it worse i’m not sure, and then she just died right in my arms while I saw the light  go right out of her eyes.. and it was the worst possible thing I ever saw.. and I just can’t get over it.. but my parents and boyfriend insisted on getting me another.. and I did, and this is a boy Lionhead named Oliver. He was very quiet at first and then we bonded and he was cuddling with me and we got a bunch of kisses but then I started to put him in his cage sometimes when my boyfriend came over so he wouldn’t just jump on the bed and hurt him (which Bella had once done really badly on accident lol) but also we haven’t cuddled as much as we did when my boyfriend was working and I was alone for a bit.. and so I feel like he might be jealous of him and mad at me for not cuddling and stuff because when I would try to bring him on the bed and stuff he’d thump and run away under my bed and he nipped me a couple of times.. not bad or anything but he’s been better today but it was weird.. I don’t want to get him neutered either because I feel it’s more natural that way.. and Bella wasn’t spayed either.. Someone please help!  

p.s I don’t have a picture of Bella because I don’t have my sim card and it’d probably make me cry seeing her!!

[Sarita]

I’m sorry about Bella. I am going to move your post to our Behavior section however as that is where this belongs.

[Beka27]

I’m sorry that your other bunny passed away. That’s very sad. 🙁

I have to be completely honest, I don’t really understand your question. Are you asking about his behavior and the nipping?

I’m going to move this thread to the Behavior section as it doesn’t belong here. The Bonding section is for posts regarding the bonding of multiple rabbits.

[Beka27]

Nevermind, Sarita already moved it 🙂

[Marisa]

Yes im just asking if he was starting to become aggresive towards me or if he was just mad atme for not spending as much time with him as I did at first.. and alright! Lol

[Beka27]

He may be becoming aggressive. Is he a young rabbit (under 6 months old)?

[Peony]

She was only a year and 2 months old

Bella wasn’t spayed either.

I don’t want to get him neutered either because I feel it’s more natural that way

key stuff that stuck out. Did you know a lot of girl rabbits Die/get uterine cancer (Very high like 80% by age 2?)
http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/spay.html
This is said somewhere this happens because natural wild rabbits are made for breeding and since they are prey animals are built on survival. So in a way, house rabbits are a bit unnatural to begin with.

For males they usually spay urine all over the place and will display behavior problems. It is actually more healthy to get rabbits fixed then not fixed.

Despite that, I am really sorry how you rabbit died and the fact it happened on thanksgiving.

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