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Forum THE LOUNGE What are your rabbit’s personalities like?

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    • emm_renn
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        My rabbit is a total diva and a stinker.  She is not afraid to tell you to move if you are in her way, she demands treats and is not graceful about taking them either.  When she gets into something she isn’t suppose to and I catch her, she runs away in the form of a binky.  What are your rabbits like?


      • BrunosMama
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          Bruno is super lazy. She is always flopped out, waiting for Harley to groom her. At dinner time, instead of moving an inch forward to her bowl, she drags it under her chin lol. Harley acts like a little punk. He acts all big and bad when he thinks someone is after his Bruno.

          Caesar is also lazy (I think its a lop thing) He’s like the whipped husband, just letting Roxie so what she wants as long as he can sleep. Roxie is neurotic. She’s a very aggressive groomer, often pinning Caesar down to lick him. Her favorite pastime is licking his eyeballs.

          Hazel is a bit crazy too. She takes redecorating to the next level by moving their cage all around the room. She loves destroying phone books. She is very much in love with Obie and makes little chirpy noises when he grooms her. Obie gets drug into Hazels mischief. I often walk in their room to find a mess and Obie with a “it was all her, Mom” look.

          Potus is a sweet bun, but really shy. He loves making noise and playing in his blankie.

          Annie is a lovable bun, always looking for pets. She doesn’t like our cat Luca though, and throws tantrums when she’s nearby.

          Backers is super timid, but for some reason seems to enjoy sitting on my lap watching TV and being petted.

          Butternut is our big girl. She loves attention, but will beat the crap out of you if you pick her up. She’s super ticklish Her current boyfriend is Jojo kitty, but I think she has her sights on Backers.


        • LBJ10
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            Leopold – “I’ll do what I want, when I want.”

            Wooly – “I’m not doing anything. Oh wait, what’s Leopold doing? That looks like fun. Mom isn’t watching, right?”


          • MeketatenBun
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              Meketaten can be summed up with “Harumph, do what you want, I don’t care”.

              Whenever I come home from college on a break, she sits in a corner of her hutch and watches me from the shadows. Sometimes she’ll shift just enough to back up farther into the corner, settle herself down into a dead weight, and look at the walls of their hutch like they’re more interesting than me.

              If I try to trick her into thinking I’m mad by turning my back to her, she’ll do her own business, might come out, but as soon as I look at her she’s munching on hay or something like “Yeah, what, I just wanted this hay. Please, peasant.”

              But as soon as I pick her up, she melts into me and will stay calm and snuggle with me until she has to go potty or something.

              So essentially she’s a princess and she doesn’t need a peasant like me to be in her face all the time. Unless there’s treats or snuggles involved.


            • emm_renn
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                haha! These are great! Bruno, I didn’t know rabbits were ticklish! Ill have to try that on my bun! And how does caesar let roxie lick his eyeball?? I have a really funny image of roxie pinning him down just to lick his eyeball.

                Mekatatenbun- My rabbit is the opposite. She will be right by the cage door wanting to get out and will hop back and forth in her cage until you let her out. Such spoiled buns.


              • MoxieMeadows
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                  Are you sure you don’t have Moxie emm_renn?

                  Although Moxie likes to play the game “Try to do something naughty as quickly as possible after mommy already said ‘no’ and then run away”. >.<


                • BrunosMama
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                    Emm_renn – she has an obsession with licking his eyes. I think he squints, but I have seen her chase after him and pin him down to lick his eye. She likes to clean his ears too. He’s a lop and she half lay on him and push his ear all the way over his head to lick. Lol Maybe she’s a bit OCD.


                  • Little Lion Head
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                      Bruno–I want to…NEED to…spend a day in your house. Anne doesn’t sound like a Ninja at all Roxie sounds like my kind of gal…gotta keep everyone clean!

                      Meke–I love that deep down we all know the truth. Meketaten is smitten with you but just wants you to make the first move b/c she’s been missing you!

                      Emm_remm and MM–Pumpkin sounds like your girls. She’s a diva and I’m not afraid to call her a straight B*%&$…but she’s the cutest dang beotch in the world so that evens things out! Pumpkin demands snuggled and pets like a cat. She will shove her face under your hand, your foot, your elbow–she doesn’t care as long as something is touching her and she melts like Meketaten.

                      Getting a boyfriend was exactly what Pumpkin needed. And Shamrock is the nicest, most submissively handsome man on the planet. No matter how Pumpkin abuses him (humping his face, sticking her face in his butt, NEVER grooming him back), he always stops what he’s doing (eating, grooming himself), to give her a good grooming.

                      I asked Shamrock why he puts up with it last night. And my hubby said “yeah Shamrock, us men gotta stick together and stop rolling over for our women.” Funny thing is….hubby and Shamrock are exactly alike!!! hehehe


                    • Tessie
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                        Luna: ‘Muuuummy I’m hungry  I don’t care that I just ate, I’m hungry!  Oh, you want a hug? Fine, alright, just for a minute and then I want food. And then it’s time for a nap 

                        Theodore: ‘Heeeeey there, whatcha doing?  Lemme see, lemme see! I’ll just sit right here in your way and then… WOAH DUDE!  I didn’t say you could touch me!  That is unwanted physical contact ‘ 


                      • kirstyol
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                          I sometimes think Bramble has a split personality disorder! Today seems to be one of his calm days where he really isn’t interested in much other than his blanket or his cat triangle house thingy. Some days he is like a hyperactive nut job!

                          he goes nuts to get out of his cage as soon as one of us is up in the morning which is normally only a slight annoyance because he starts doing it literally the second someone enters the room but I have been on nightshift this week and when I get home early in the morning he has been going off his head to get out. I try to explain to him that its too early and I am going to bed and that he will get out when the other half gets up, but he either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care – he wants out and that’s all that matters.

                          He always likes being petted and actually doesn’t mind the other half picking him up, but he runs a mile if I try. He also loves to groom his ears. When he gets out in the morning he is like a security guard running about checking that nothing has moved or changed in anyway he goes round sniffing everything and chinning the things that he thinks need chinned. We got a new tv unit the other day and he is really quite confused by it he keeps sitting looking at it as if thinking ‘that’s not what was here before, I am confused’ but really he is just annoyed because he can no longer get in behind the tv to where the wires are which is a good thing for him because it means he doesn’t need to be supervised quite as closely but he does not see it that way.


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                            Bindi: Teddy Bear

                            Olivia: DIVA!!!!


                          • emm_renn
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                              LLH- Pumpkin sounds like a sweetheart! I would pet that rabbit for days if permitted. My rabbit doesn’t mind pets, and loves a good nose/ear massage, but she would rather be zooming around the room.


                            • manic_muncher
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                                My rabbits have changed since Bonnie and Clyde have been bonded. Bumpy only wants to run beside their cage and fight with Clyde and pee and poop around the perimeter. Clyde only wants to kill Bumpy. Bonnie doesn’t want them to fight.

                                When they all were single:
                                All of them would come when I called them.

                                Bumpy would lay beside Bonnie’s pen right beside her, or hop in the chair beside me and look for a treat, or follow the Bandit and Outlaw thinking they might know of a treat coming soon, or hop in my hubby’s lap looking for a banana, or bonk me on the leg for a pat on the head.

                                Bonnie would constantly look for something to get into, or purposefully get on Outlaw’s footstool to annoy him, or just for me to tell her to get down so she can binky away laughing at me.

                                Clyde would run out of his pen and immediately run beside my hubby’s recliner where we had one of those cardboard cement tubes wedged and would get to work digging in it and pushing all the torn pieces of cardboard out of the tube, just like a rabbit in the wild pushing dirt out of a hole.

                                Now I have to put up a blockade so Clyde and Bumpy can’t see each other when they have floortime, and Bumpy does nothing but run around trying to find a way to look inside and antagonize Clyde.

                                I miss my old buns.


                              • Diamond
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                                  I mentioned to a friend that Lily usually only lets me pet her if I have a treat for her. He said “Well, she’s running a business. She can’t just give cuddles away.” I feel like that sums it up pretty well.


                                • Mimzy
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                                    Haha, Mimzy is just like Fuji & Pumpkin xD

                                    She’s demanding & wants everyone who enters the room to know she’s boss (this includes our 60 & 70lb dogs). She’s never full, will groom Obi for a few seconds but much prefers to be the one groomed She’s also my trouble maker! Thinks she’s helping you clean by sitting right in what you just swept up, forever getting into everything she’s not supposed to & always trying to sneak out of the room. She’ll act all innocent of course

                                     

                                    Obi-Bun Kenobi is lazy & submissive. He stops dead in his tracks soon as the tip of your finger even barely brushes his head. He’s so in love with Mimzy no matter how bossy she is to him, chasing & sometimes pulling hair out. He tries hard to beg for grooms from Mimzy but like a sweet husbun, he caves to her & grooms her instead  He’s always waiting for her to calm down for some snuggles. Very easy to upset though, he will thump at anything that makes him the least bit unhappy 


                                  • emm_renn
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                                      To those of you who have pairs- it sounds like your rabbits’ personalities shine when they are bonded. I can’t wait to see how Fuji will react when she gets a mate. And would you recommend a boy-girl pair or a girl-girl pair?


                                    • Sindri
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                                        I have heard that bonding a boy and girl is easiest though I had an extremely hard time bonding my two.

                                        My rabbits are both bossy and feisty. Usagi like pets from me and attention from me but Kilala seems like she could care less if I am around. Since she is bonded to Usagi she seems to prefer him over me. She does enjoy my pets but doesn’t seek me out unless I have food.

                                        They both act like starving little beast and beg for food and treats worse than our dogs do. Its kind of funny. When I first come to their bunny room to visit they always run to greet me to see if I have food.

                                        Where the bossy and feisty comment comes into play is that they like to have their room arrange in a certain way and will move things around.They even try to move me if I am sitting in a place they don’t like me sitting in. They both HATE being picked up.

                                        Kilala is more playful and Usagi is more laid back. She likes to jump really high. Usagi mainly does 500s and binkies during his outside playtime in the main area.


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                                          Posted By emm_renn on 4/15/2015 4:15 PM

                                          To those of you who have pairs- it sounds like your rabbits’ personalities shine when they are bonded. I can’t wait to see how Fuji will react when she gets a mate. And would you recommend a boy-girl pair or a girl-girl pair?

                                          It’s hard to say with Shamrock; we only had him for 2 weeks before we starting bonding the two.

                                          Pumpkin’s always been a snuggle bunny. I was worried that would stop when we got Shamrock, but she’ll take love from anyone. 

                                          We got pretty lucky; I think Pumpkin would have bonded anybun that would groom her or touch her. And Shamrock would have bonded with anybun that would put up with him grooming them. 

                                          I’ve mentioned this in other threads, but Shamrock and his previous bonded bun were abandoned when their owner got evicted. We don’t know how long they were alone or what happened to Shamrock’s buddy. Hubby thinks that Shamrock would have groomed anybunny that they put in with him at the bunny date so that he could go home to be with another bunny again. We just got lucky that we had dibs before he met anyone else 


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                                            The bond between my boys has done wonders for them. Wooly is Leopold’s ears, so now Leopold always knows what’s going on. And Leopold empowers Wooly and makes him feel more confident. When he sees Leopold doing something, he often decides to follow and he finds himself doing things he wouldn’t normally do on his own. =)


                                          • emm_renn
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                                              LLH- when you say bunny date, do you mean you took your rabbit to a shelter and let him meet possible candidates?


                                            • rayray
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                                                It’s great to hear what everyone’s buns are like. The different personalities are so amazing. I only have 2 friends with buns and both of those are grumpy, bossy ones. But then I got Lily and the difference was night & day!
                                                Ziggy is lazy & antisocial (unless there’s craisins). He’s also pretty bossy (but that seems to be a given with rabbits). But he warms up if I pet his head and breath warm kisses into his fur.
                                                Lily is crazy. She never sits still. Always snooping or making Ziggy groom her. If she sees me petting Ziggy, she’ll hop over and push her head under my hand or Ziggy head for one of us to groom her. She also binkies a lot.
                                                Before I got Lily, Ziggy had not seen another rabbit since he was in his litter (he’s 3yrs now). He’s slowly learning how to play now and his toys have all been abandoned. lol!!


                                              • Little Lion Head
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                                                  emm_renn–There is a great Companion Rabbit Society in my state. It’s not really a shelter as much as an organization. They take in buns and the bunnies go to foster homes in my area. Then they have “Hoppy Hour” every week where potential adopters can come meet the bunnies, or you can bring your bunny for speed dating. So we took Pumpkin to a Hoppy Hour event with a particular rabbit in mind (we had this other rabbit and Shamrock on hold for us, but I wasn’t sold on Shamrock until he started kissing Pumpkin). They would let us try “dates” with as may bunnies as we wanted and we tried three different rabbits before deciding Shamrock was the one.


                                                • emm_renn
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                                                    LLH- that sounds awesome! I’ll have to see if I have anything like that where I live when I start looking for a parter for Fuji. I’ve heard of hoppy hour, but I think instead of finding a potential mate, you can let them meet other rabbits around you and just let them run around in a huge ware house play area. Does this sound familiar?


                                                  • Little Lion Head
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                                                      That’s kind of what the hoppy hour here is–a big playtime for rabbits and it costs like $2 to to be a part of it for the day. They have the rabbits up for adoption as well as other rabbits who just come to play (agility courses, etc.)

                                                      Just a side note on hoppy hours–I had considered taking Pumpkin to hoppy hour before we got Shamrock just to play and see if she liked the agility course. Then we found out she had syphilis and it being so contagious, it obviously wasn’t an option. I talked to some members here and my vet who advised me not to take my buns just for the purpose to play w/ other bunnies. Of course the organization says your bunnies must be healthy….but we didn’t even know Pumpkin had syphilis the first month we had her. And I’m sure there’s plenty of other bunny owners who “think” their rabbits are healthy. It just got me nervous so I never did it. Now that I have two, I don’t see a need to socialize them w other buns.

                                                      But anyways–I bet if you asked your local hoppy hour they might have some ideas for meeting a bunny mate!!

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