My rabbit has taken up licking the bottom of a chair and some glass doors recently. I honestly don’t know why she would be doing that. It can’t be that tasty…

I don’t think it is abnormal that she licks thing but I don’t have any idea why. Sorry I wasn’t of any help… just wanted to say that my rabbit will lick weird things too!

I have this weird textured pillow and a fuzzy blanket. Felony will these for hours. It’s really funny when I’m using the blanket because its like I’m a giant purple bunny and Felony will groom me for ages. The only time he grooms the blanket is when I’m using it though. It’s entertaining.

I’d be interested to know too – maybe she’s just an overly affectionate rabbit or it could be anxiety too (not that you personally are doing anything to make her anxious) but I think sometimes these behaviors are somehow stress or anxiety related.

It could be a way to calm and comfort themselves. They would be licking another bunny if there was one around, wouldn’t they?

I also think some things are salty, like my arms.

hummm… this is really interesting! I’ll have to watch and see if Oreo starts licking weird things! LOL

well is she a baby? when i first got my bunny she was 7-8 weeks, and she licked EVERYTHING. i had to watch her all the time because i was scared she’d lick something poisonous. i think its a baby bunny thing, because she doesn’t really do it anymore. she’s almost 3 months now. i thought it was salt too, but i got a salt and mineral rock for her, but she didn’t use it.

how old is pinky?

Fiver licks EVERYTHING…except me.
I just got my first grooming licks from Mimzy in this last week or so of antibiotic treatment. It felt so nice to be appreciated! ^_^

Pip only bites my arms or hands. There’s no love lost between us at all. >.<

Pam, I keep thinking of how you told about Spockie licking your feet. That has to be the funniest, and yet sweetest, thing I’ve ever heard of a bunny doing. ^_^

Yes, I loved that. He didn’t outgrow it either. Though he did LOVE salt licks in his house.
I think it is much more than a swipe for salt as well. I think it has some instinctual basis that we just don’t understand yet. He used to lick pillows like crazy as well. And the same ones, not every pillow. Maybe once they lick something, like marking, it takes on their familiar smell, and then it’s like licking another bunny thing. I just don’t know, but he was a very frequent licker.

I do think, when it’s us, it’s a loving, grooming thing. Maybe I’m just more disheveled so I need more grooming? I do know that living in the South now makes me sweat regularly, so I may just be a giant, tasty pretzel!

Well, I got curious so I consulted the Language of Lagamorphes to see if there was any info. there, and this was in a section on licking:

Some rabbits will lick objects around you, rather than your body or the clothes you’re wearing. This is used to indicate that they like you very much even though you’re a subordinate. It will be performed very clearly in your view and while watching you. They seem particularly to choose objects that have your scent, such as places where you sit or clothing you’re removed. I think it’s fair to interpret this as giving you the gift of being groomed, though indirectly.

Face it, guys. We’re still slaves.

I hadn’t folded my laundry yet last night when I let Freya out. I had worked all evening and didn’t really think anything of it and figured it’ll hold til morning when I have the energy to care. I turn my back for two minutes and she’s on top of the laundry licking it. Not my dirty smells like me laundry, the clean stuff. Wierd. Maybe it means she likes me?

Haha, slaves. It’s been a week since she came home and I’m a slave, how’d this happen?

Whenever my bunnies are licking anything I convince myself that it is a compliment probably just to make myself feel better! Amelia likes to lick the bars of her cage, and so I always say to my husband, “see, she is trying to groom me, but she can’t get to me so she is grooming the closest thing.” Juli will lick the floor right next to me so I am pretty sure that she is doing what the Language of the Lagamorphs site says, and trying to groom me with out bringing herself down to my level of slave-dom.

Holy cow…if that article Pam posted is correct, Fiver must be completely twitterpated! 0_o
Dawes…*sniffle* He wuvs me! ^_^

Pepper never grooms me directly but does a LOT of the “grooming by proxy” thing.  My pillows and blankets especially and sometimes my shoes.

How long has it been now, BBM? I would think if Pinky is going through any kind of feelings of loss, it would’ve happened by now?
Do you think Pinky wants another friend? (if you don’t mind my asking)