For those of you who followed and helped me through Nova’s unexpected litter, here’s an update, and I have another question.

First, she’s doing wonderfully! She’s still really mean when I try to pick her up, or pet her, or look at her the wrong way, but I think she’s happy most of the time because I do my best to avoid those things and only do them when I absolutly have to. So what if she’s not bushed to perfection daily? I can live with that for now. Today for the first time since she’s had her babies I opened her cage door and just left it open and she actually hopped out and has been zipping around my room for a few hours. She gets along wonderfully with my chihuahuas and so far hasn’t even attacked one of them! She’s completely relaxed and likes to lay by my feet after she’s done a few laps. My room isn’t exactly bunny proof, but for now she hasn’t gotten into any trouble (though I doubt that will last long, so I’m going to need to bunny proof my room a little better now). It probably isn’t the smartest thing to just give her my entire room to run around, but I’ll regret that later and after she pees on something. She’s just so cute though! I just can’t get over that. Even when she’s mean it’s cute! I just can’t believe anyone could let her suffer.

She has been into the vets again, and they said to just take my time with getting her to gain weight, but that she’s looking good, all things considered. She’s already on a decent diet and I shouldn’t try to fatten her up to much with treats. I should be able to get her spayed in a few weeks, pending my having money then. If not it will at least happen sometime in the next few months. I know that will probably help with her agression issues too.

Obviously catching her and putting her away before I leave my room, especially if I need to go someplace in a hurry, is going to be a problem for a little while. As it is, if I walk towards her or to close to her without even intending to do anything with her she lunges at my feet and I imagine I probably will get bit by her at some point just walking across my room. I won’t have a spare ex-pen for a few weeks/months, pending placement of a foster dog so that’s not an option for something to herd her into. Basically what I’m asking is for some way to more easily put her away, or at least confinded when I leave my room. I can simply throw a towel over her and catch her, but I’d rather not go that route since we obviously have trust issues and I don’t want to keep her confind all the time because she just loves running around like the slightly crazed creature that she is. Long term I would love to have her completely free range (in my room), but right now that’s just not an option. So if someone has a tip for this, great! And if not, then at least I have a towel and an ex-pen eventually.