Maybe try interacting with her in a smaller space? If she is given too much free roam all at once then she won’t really have any reason to interact with you. I always start with my bunnies in an Xpen. I feed them, give them head rubs, and just sit in ‘their’ space. They then get excited when they see you coming because they know it means positive things… She may be associating you approaching with being picked up and put back in her cage.

congrats on your new bunny. I thought mine hated me too until I read through this great site about how bunnies communicate.

http://language.rabbitspeak.com/

Are you doing bonding sessions with them in your room? That isn’t neutral space. You want to have a very small neutral area, so they are forced to interact with each other. Don’t worry about her relationship with you at this point. The most important thing is her relationship to Pixel. Later on, when bonding is finished, that is when you can worry about getting her to trust you.

It seems that some of the bunnies here who are in the process of bonding with another bunny do not bond as quickly to their human. I think some people bond a bit with a new bunny alone first, then do the bonding with the other bunny. But that’s only if you can manage that. You may find that once they are bonded to each other, you will have a chance to bond with her yourself.

but she doesn’t hate you at all. No bunny likes to be chased or prodded out from under the bed. (I speak from great and frustrating experience.) I ended up clicker training my stubborn bunny just so she’d come out from under for a treat. It seems to work.

Clicker training is a GREAT way to build your bond with your bunnies. I have trained Leroy and Jeannie to do a few little tricks and it’s so much fun.

I have a really strong bond with Leroy – he was my first bunny and my only bun for several months until I got Jeannie. I started bonding Leroy and Jeannie the day after Jeannie came home (she was spayed several weeks before at the HRS, and Leroy was neutered months and months before that). I found that I didn’t bond as quickly or as strongly with Jeannie initially. She was a bit skittish around me, since she was new to the home and everything was big and scary to her I’m sure, but my main focus was getting her bonded to Leroy since I didn’t want two cages to clean, lol, and I figured that once she was bonded to him, she’d see him interact with me and decide that I’m an ok person to be around. Since the bonding, Jeannie and I have strengthened our relationship, and of the two, she’s usually the first one to great me when I come home now, lol.

The first thing they catch on to with clicker training is how to do things, and later on it’s more sophisticated to train them how NOT to do things. So the best bet is to teach some basics, like responding to the clicker and knowing it means a treat is coming, and that will distract them from any boring behaviors like chewing on carpet. “I can chew on nasty carpet, or I can play with my slave and have treats. Hmmm…..what to do?”

It’s been suggested that bunnies, being rather smart animals, believe that they have trained their slaves to give them treats, just by responding well to that clicker, and ultimately, to the commands. Pretty clever of bunnies to teach us to give them treats on command.

I agree with Barbie that it’s tricky to bond with a new bunny when you’re trying to bond both together. During later bonding stages, when the bunnies had the run of a hallway for hours at a time, I found it was helpful to sit there with them so Hannah could get used to me. We bonded a bit during these sessions I think.

Otherwise, most of our bonding has happened since they started living together. She can still be skittish sometimes – just a “no Hannah” will stop her in her tracks, but we’re getting better. And she enjoys pets now way more than Otto does!