Hi everyone! I’m the happy owner of a cute and kind unfixed satin angora, he’s about 7 months old. I read up about the different signs for sexual maturity when I got him but so far nothing, he never poos out of place, hasn’t sprayed, doesn’t hump or chase anything. He’s just a really nice bun. I’ve been planning to get him a friend since get go who could free range with him and have an appointment in 2 weeks to relieve him of the nuts.
My teenage niece has two bunnies and lost interest in one of them, he’s one of the most gorgeous bunnies I’ve seen and is about a year old, unfixed sachsengold/belgian hare, living basically in his cage. I figured I could take him home and see how he and I got along for starters before deciding to neuter and keep him (it’s so expensive to neuter over here and I’m not sitting on a pile of cash right now!). I put Harry (my satin) in the kitchen and the new one in the living room where I am most of the time. Weeeelll, it seems I am one nice lady because it wasn’t much more than 20ish minutes he was making this whistling noise/thumping in the cage that I did not recognize from Harrys’ vocabulary. After he came out he started circling around and around not knowing what to do with himself, so now I’ve been humped, sprayed, followed around and bitten. Not fun. My cat was chased around too. My daughter would get scared if she got chased, she’s not very fond of Harry for some reason and he’s always well-behaved.
So now I’m not sure what to do, could this get Harry in the other room going too? I haven’t seen any sexual behaviours from him at all, he even smells nice which this older lad does not, he stinks lol! New boy is miserable in his cage shaking the bars pacing back and forth wanting to hang out with me, I let him out couple of times but it keeps repeating itself. I was not prepared for this and have no good way of having a spraying/biting rabbit free. He’s been outdoor before but has been inside all winter and it’s starting to get cold. I have a large closed balcony with windows so it doesn’t get any weather in but it still gets cold, I suppose that’s no good idea since he doesn’t have a winter coat or can that be mitigated by some special housing? We’ve had a warm winter but it’s like -10 celcius last few nights with -4 in the day.
Just happy to get some feedback, I do think he could use a good home but I must admit I feel a bit out of my depth. How are the belgian hares in temper by the way?
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