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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

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- 04/22/2015 at 10:01 AM
  ElleBee
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  Hello everyone. I will try to keep my question short, as they always seem to run out of control on me
  
  I had posted awhile back about my bunny having a couple of bouts of G Stasis. The symptoms she has now are not like that all. She is drinking, pooping and eating completely normally and does not appear to be in any kind of discomfort.
  
  She shares a bedroom with my boyfriend’s computer, where, through the winter you can find him a lot. Now that is is spring, he is golfing, etc, and is not in the computer/bunny room much anymore. I have noticed over the last 5-6 days, that my Casper Girl has been really disinterested, excessively grooming herself… (I feel like everytime I look over at her she’s grooming herself), and when I open up the gate to give her access to the stairs/ rest of the house… she doesn’t care, doesn’t notice… whereas before she literally eats the baby gate to get out, and when opened up she would book it down the stairs and binky her heart out in the living room. It’s been about a week and half- 2 weeks since I have seen a real binky. She can be found sitting like a loaf, sleeping, sittingunder the chair in her room. She perks up for treats, but that is short lived. I presented a stuffed dog to her last night, she was curious with it, sometimes she grooms it, but looses interest that it doesn’t groom back.
  
  I have been getting up a little later then normal and thought maybe I was just missing her hyper mornings, so got up early today— Notta. I have stayed up with her a couple of extra house the last two nights in a row just to play, cuddle and do foraging games… She’s into it but not like she use to be.
  
  Could she be missing her room-mate, my boyfriend, could she just be lonely and depressed generally? I know that they are social and most rabbits prefer to be bonded, I don’t know if that is an option for us right now. Any other suggestions as to how I can get her out of this funk OR are these symptoms of something completely different and I am missing the mark?
  
  (Casper is an almost 1.5 year old mini rex, female, spayed)
- 04/22/2015 at 10:13 AM
  Sarita
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  I think it sounds like regular rabbit behavior. My rabbit is not very active during the daytime – he might come downstairs when I’m home in the morning for a bit but mostly he just lounges and sleeps all day.
- 04/22/2015 at 10:20 AM
  ElleBee
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  I resorted to picking her up and bringing her downstairs- that is a big deal in this house. We only pick her up to trim nails or if she is sick and we need to give her meds. She just hates it so much, so no point in stressing her with her when we can avoid it. She dog-walked around curiously and I just saw an enthusiastic binky
- 04/22/2015 at 11:13 PM
  ElleBee
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  I am still open to thoughts on this topic if anyone has the time or insight. I had her downstairs today for a bit and she had some time to run up and down the stairs, here we are though at 10:00 PM and she has barely come out of her cage. She is just laying down and snoozing a lot. (different then GI laying down.. she isn’t up and down and up and down) She has been eating and drinking normally today.
  Could these be something else? Does this sound like lonliness?
- 04/23/2015 at 8:28 AM
  manic_muncher
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  Perhaps some of it is the change in your bf’s schedule, but also you should maybe consider her age and the timing with the change of his schedule with her maturing. They seem to mellow out a bit anyway, on top of him currently not being around as much, so yes, she could be missing him a bit, BUT ALSO just be slowing down a little due to maturity.
  
  When you took her downstairs and she binkied for you, that sounds like what a typical response would be.. “ooo new things to see and do YAY!”
  
  She -could- be missing your bf a little, but I wouldn’t worry too much if she is eating and drinking, especially if you are there. I had the same tendency to project that onto Bumpy, worrying that he was lonely (but he wasn’t) he was MUCH happier before I got him 2 “friends”. He much rather lay about a snooze happily… now he has poop wars and is annoyed constantly with another rabbit in the house.
  
  If she is able to come up and down the stairs, is the reason you bring her downstairs yourself to sorta make her interact? Instead of her choosing to sit upstairs all on her own? Do you have a favorite treat of hers that comes in a rattling sounding bag that would entice her to come downstairs on her own?
  
  I really think she’s alright. Just with a lil schedule changing on her human’s part and maturing on her part.
- 04/24/2015 at 10:22 AM
  ElleBee
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  Thanks so much for the reply!
  I had through about the fact that she might just be getting older, less a bunny and more a rabbit now. She has over the last 30 hours been out of her funk. Running downstairs on her own, more curious, playing with her toys… Maybe she was just in a bit of mood. Thanks again, it makes me feel much better.
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