Yikes! I would like to know what you guys think of what’s happened today.

The lovely Pringles is my intact female (at least until thanksgiving when I can get her to Dallas). I have 2 neutered males, Daisy runs the front part of the house, Toby, my bedroom. The lovely hussy Pringles has been traveling back and forth between the two territories for months, with few problems, as long as I keep the males out of each other’s territories.

At 4 am this morning I heard a ruckus, got up and it looked like Pringles had gotten stuck trying to crawl under my desk so I pulled her out and gave her and Toby a bit of hay to keep them quiet. Same thing at 6 am,  but she had managed to get all the way under so I let her be. After getting up I was sitting on the floor rewiring a swtich and my tools kept disappearing from beside me. I was down to one screwdriver and Pringles bounded into my lap and snatched it  away and took off. She ran under the desk and used her front feet to shove it under. She then returned to snatch the instructitons page I was trying to read.

In the course of an hour she had managed to pack that small space with crumpled paper from the trash can, 3 screwdrivers, a lot of her own fur, lots of carpet threads, my hairbrush, a dishtowel, a small blanket out of the cat’s bed, a magic marker, hay from the litter box (which left an easy trail to follow) AND my floorlength housecoat. This thing is long, very loud colored and she pushed and shoved it in there so it forms a wall around her enclosure. She was working very hard on dragging my quite sizable tennis shoe over there too when I realized what was going on. Right now she’s pulling on the throw I’ve got on my lap. She has sheetrock plaster on her head from when she tried to grab the small trowel I was using.

Now, I would assume I just had an insane, obsessive packrat on my hands except she has been harrassing the boys all day. Getting them all wound up, circling and squawking till they just have to mount her and actually get seriously down to business. This went all most of the day, I’d separate her from Daisy and she’d run for Toby, til the guys wanted nothing more than a nap ( or perhaps a cigarette). That behaviour has settled down, now Pringles is eating everything is sight! I mean like she’s eating for a pack of babies.  This has got to be a false pregnancy, right?

I had read that rabbits didn’t come into heat until they had been bred. Pringles seemed to have decided to build the nursery and then went shopping for a father. It’s quiet right now and I don’t know how long it will last. Her cave is a very tight fit, if she keeps eating like she is, she won’t fit by tomorrow. Is this normal  for a growing girl??