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- 12/29/2016 at 12:31 PM
  12345ABCDE
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  Today I heard Buttercup grind her teeth for the first time. I hear her making some sort of sound regularly when she’s bunny-loafed, same goes for Peanut but it’s more of a purring sound? Anyway, I was petting Buttercup and heard her grind her teeth for a couple seconds. She’d only do it when I pet her. I don’t know whether she’s happy or pissed off lol. How can I tell?
- 12/29/2016 at 12:40 PM
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  She’s happy. Rabbits grind their teeth when they are happy. The can also grind their teeth when they’re in a lot of pain. That’s often a choppier sound, more like a chatter than a purr. If a rabbit is in so much pain that it grinds its teeth, there are other signs of pain such as looking miserable, sitting in a hunched up position, refusal to eat and drink etc. It can happen post surgery if the bun hasn’t got enough pain meds.
  
  Since your buns clearly aren’t in pain, the tooth grinding is “tooth-purring” of varying intensity. Young buns can do that spontaneously when they just feel at easy, adult buns tend to do it when you pet them. Sometimes it’s so soft you can’t hear it, you can only feel it in your fingertips when you pet the bun’s head.
  
  So, congrats =)
- 12/29/2016 at 12:46 PM
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  Posted By bam on 12/29/2016 12:40 PM
  
  She’s happy. Rabbits grind their teeth when they are happy. The can also grind their teeth when they’re in a lot of pain. That’s often a choppier sound, more like a chatter than a purr. If a rabbit is in so much pain that it grinds its teeth, there are other signs of pain such as looking miserable, sitting in a hunched up position, refusal to eat and drink etc. It can happen post surgery if the bun hasn’t got enough pain meds.
  
  Since your buns clearly aren’t in pain, the tooth grinding is “tooth-purring” of varying intensity. Young buns can do that spontaneously when they just feel at easy, adult buns tend to do it when you pet them. Sometimes it’s so soft you can’t hear it, you can only feel it in your fingertips when you pet the bun’s head.
  
  So, congrats =)
  
  Yay, that makes me really happy! Buttercup often has this disapproving look on her face so it can be difficult to determine her emotions It sounded really bizarre at first as usually the standard bunny loaf purring that she and Peanut do is softer and almost undetectable to my ears whereas this was most definitely a louder teeth grinding. Glad she’s happy though! She had just munched some grass and was having a rest, now she’s ran back to eat some more
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