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- 11/06/2009 at 11:56 AM
  Lintini
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  I moved the bunnies into the same room today, in seperate cages and then let Bun out. Bun is extrememly interested in the babies cage and rubbing her chin all over while the baby sat there looking perplexed eating a carrot and watching her zoom around. I see a very defined hole rather than a slit in the baby bunnies privates so I believe it is indeed a boy. Although Bun is snotty to the baby, she is constantly by his cage or pretending not to notice the baby but then comes right back. And the baby bunny is completely sonar eared at her. It’s quite cute.
  
  The baby rabbit is very snuggly and loves to be pet, do you think this could change when he becomes a teenager then to adult? He seems very interested in Bun and was very passive to her when they met but she was a snot. I’ve put away 100$ so far to Buns spaying, so by the next paycheck / end of the month I can get her fixed. Then I get to save up again for the baby, and Xmas is right around the corner. *Grumble* I really shouldn’t have bought that new laptop.
  
  Another thing…the baby rabbit smells 100 times worse than Bun, I am cleaning his litterbox everyday but UGHH its so bad! Their diet has been oxbow pellets, orchard and timothy hay, some alfalfa for the young man, and for veggies it’s been carrots, cilantro, parsley and red leaf lettuce/ romaine lettuce. I mean of course I can deal with the smell, but good grief I gotta be on top of that litter box! Typical stinky boys….
- 11/06/2009 at 12:06 PM
  Karla
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  Double posts – why does it keep happening to me?? Well, just ignore :’)
- 11/06/2009 at 12:06 PM
  Karla
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  How old is your baby bun?
  
  I don’t think you should worry about your baby bun not being interested in pets when (s)he gets older. At least when they are teenagers they seldom have the time for pets, because the whole world is just so much fun to explore and there is no time to stop for a while, but then after a while – and a neuter- you will find that the petting is again appreciated.
  
  Sounds like Bun loves the company And perhaps the attention
- 11/06/2009 at 12:13 PM
  Elrohwen
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  I’ve found that my male bun has become far more interested in pets again around 8 months. I think, like Karla said, they may go through an adolescent stage where everything is more interesting than you, but it’ll pass and they’ll settle down. As long as he’s comfortable and trusting you, I don’t think that will change as he ages. It just might take some time for him to reach full snuggling capacity again 😉
  
  My boy wasn’t stinky at all before neutering, but I’ve heard that it can be bad! Has he sprayed at all? Some people have mentioned that their boy bunny sprayed something but they didn’t notice for a while. The owner/slave couldn’t figure out where the smell was coming from until they moved the cage and realized there was bunny pee all over the wall/floor behind the cage 😡 So check and make sure there aren’t any hidden messes that could be adding to the smell!
  
  P.S. Does little boy have a name yet?
- 11/06/2009 at 12:16 PM
  Lintini
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  She is way more interested when he’s in his cage. When they met for about 10min on my bed she was trampling him like that wild animal show where the deer attacked the hunter. I just have to clap and she stopped but I’m going to wait for meeting #2 until everyone is fixed and healed. No reason to do it now when things could change but at least they can check each other out in the meantime and get used to each others smell.
  
  I also need to construct a lid for the top of the grid cage. The little one is now standing on his hind legs and peeping over the top. I’ve been using a sheet, and that was good for the first few weeks until now he can look over. He’s now somehow bringing the sheet down on himself and then making a bed out of it. I’m going to run off to the store and buy some zip ties to make a proper top.
  
  When I bought him the owner of the feedstore said he was 5 weeks? He was very skinny and dirty and fit in my hand. He’s now doubled in size and I can’t feel the ribs like they were, and if they were correct with 5 weeks, he should be 2 months-ish now?
- 11/06/2009 at 12:18 PM
  Lintini
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  No he isn’t spraying, and is pretty good about using his litter box. I load it up with a ton of hay so he will sit there and eat and poo and is completely using it for urine. Sometimes the poo doesn’t make it in, but the pee sure is and boy does it stink.
- 11/06/2009 at 12:22 PM
  Lintini
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  Well if he was going to be a girl I wanted to do a Egyptian name, but now that I am pretty positive it’s a boy…well I do love Indiana Jones…and I could call him “Indy” if that was his name….lol
  
  And also when everyone refers to a bunny “spraying”, this is similar to a cat spraying right? When it goes all over the wall to mark their scent right?
  If so then no, haven’t had any bunny spraying. It’s in the liter box like Bun does.
- 11/06/2009 at 1:23 PM
  Monkeybun
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  Ooo Indy, I like that! My hubby approves too! lol
- 11/06/2009 at 1:43 PM
  Elrohwen
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  I like Indy! Very cute.
  
  5 weeks would’ve been very young! Poor little guy 🙁 But he did look very very young, so that might’ve been accurate, but hopefully he was more like 7 weeks at the time. I have a feeling he’s going to get pretty big. There’s just something about his huge ears! Haha. I can’t wait to see what he looks like as he gets bigger.
  
  And I had to laugh at your description of Bun running him over. Lol. Poor little guy!
- 11/06/2009 at 1:58 PM
  Lintini
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  Haha I just cracked up thinking about it again too. You should have seen when Bun did that to our dog. Now Wickett won’t come near her. He’s content staring at the guinea pigs who are either clueless or used to it. We call it “pigging.” I have a picture of him before when he was interested in Bun, pre vorpal bunny attack.
  
  Don’t mind the messy room…nylon…and stains. I did treat them and they come back OMG – little dogs are such a pain to potty train.
  
  Yes I am in my 20’s and dress my guinea pigs up in Barbie clothing… well just a hat :p It’s the wedding from hell…
- 11/06/2009 at 2:26 PM
  Elrohwen
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  LOL I guess Bun can take care of herself! We want to get a dog some day, but I’m pretty sure Otto would just hide in a corner if it stared at him too long.
- 11/06/2009 at 2:56 PM
  Balefulregards
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  Jackson was a musky dude until about 3 weeks post neuter – we could tell a huge difference between Coco and Him. She never smelled like that before her spay and she was living in the house for 2 months before her spay.
  
  We noticed the smell with Jackson right AWAY – A cross between skunk and funk and urine and Boy rabbit.
  
  The good news was that, as I said, about 3 weeks post neuter, the smell disappeared and has not returned (Phew)
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