I thought what you did bunbuns for most of the day, but her bad mood has continued into the night. I put her back in her habitat for a few hours like I normally do to take a bath and stuff, and now when I went to get her out of her habitat and let her roam about for another few hours before bedtime she batted at me! No growls this time. I left her in, then went back a few minutes later and she did it again! She was spayed over six months ago so it can’t be hormones. She -always- wants to get out of her habitat. She’s eating, drinking, peeing, and pooping so I don’t think she’s sick.

I’d hate to use a spray gun at her. Our house wasn’t built for a bunny, so I understand how irresistable our long carpeting is (it’s old, so if she digs it doesn’t matter, I just make sure to stop her so she doesn’t eat any, thus far she hasn’t seen interested in eating it, and I don’t want her to think it’s okay to dig it up because one day she’ll be in a different house with new carpet). I try to get her some munchie toys like cardboard and get her interested in other things when she tries to dig.

You know, she started acting a bit odd yesterday now that I think of it. I usually put her with my dad to hold her for a minute or two every day, although she isn’t the fondest of him she’ll tolerate it and he wants to pet her (she won’t go to him if he gets on the floor to pet her). Yesterday she flatly refused four different times to go from my hands into his. Today she refused again. Could it be something related to that? My dad isn’t the nicest person in the world, but he’s never hurt her. She seems to dislike him, or feel indifferent to him, but she’s never refused pets from him before.

I don’t know what’s going on, I can’t think of any changes that have happened in the past few days, everything’s been normal.

My house is set up that I have to pick her up to get her in and out of her habitat. It was established from day one when she entered the house six months ago that she had to accept me picking her up, and honestly she’s never seemed to mind me picking her up. She’s doesn’t let anybody else pick her up, but she lets me. If I reach in to pick her up and she moves away, then I understand that as bunny language for “leave me in here”, so I do. Which is why this batting is odd, since all she has to do is move away from my hands to tell me she wants to stay. She’s quite a dominant diva, so I’ve figured out that our pecking order in the house is me, her, my mom, and then my dad, which is why she doesn’t like to give him the time of day.

Aww, poor Lolli. I so have the lollipop song stuck in my head now. You should so do a YT video of that song with pics or vid of her!

Well since typing my last post, I did go and try again, and she let me get her out. I laid down on the couch and she hopped from me to it, then she turned around and groomed my face. Like, my whole face, forehead, nose, cheeks, eyelids, the whole bit, as if my face were covered in banana and she wanted every taste she could get. Then I groomed her for a little while, she pressed her butt by my forehead whilst I stroked her face. Now she’s in a little ball in the corner all snuggly by the fireplace, acting like she hasn’t a care in the world. And she hasn’t tried to go for the carpet, either. *sigh* Buns. We’ll see how she is tomorrow. x.x

Today seems much better, not a growl or bat in sight. She’s laying in the sun next to my chair as I type this, lounging around. I wonder what was going on yesterday, could she have had a tummy ache or something that would have caused that mood swing thing? I am taking her to the clinic to get her nails trimmed on Monday, I could ask the vet tech about it, if anybody thinks that’s warranted?

I thought of that, but she was spayed over six months ago. She is almost eleven months old, could it possibly be triggered by adolescent type behavior? I think she’s in between being an teen and adult right now, right? Or is she considered an adult?

She’s been peaches and cream today, and actually more lovey dovey than normal, hanging around me quite a bit giving lots of kisses and asking for pets. If her tail could wag like a dogs, I believe it would. Complete opposite from yesterday.

It snowed quite a bit on that day, so that could be possible. She’s good today again, scampering and exploring.

I believe I’ve linked that behavior to her trying to be dominant over me. She batted the vet tech yesterday, and the tech flipped her over and waited for Dutchess to be ‘submissive’/calm before releasing her. She batted at me last night, and I kind of repeated what the vet tech did, and Dutchess really calmed down over it! It’s like she asserted herself, but then was very happy I decided to take the leadership role as dominant over her when she settled way down. So in the future I think I will use that tactic whenever she tries to bat at me and stuff, and then that moody day won’t happen again!