Over the past 3-4 months I’ve noticed Olaf becoming less and less interested in spending time with me. I know people usually complain about these things with new rabbits, hoping to rush the bonding process, but we’ve spent the last year and a half getting to know one another. He is two years old and I’ve had him since 6 months. He has always hopped up on the couch with me voluntarily and loved to cuddle in the mornings and flop on the back of the couch or at my feet in the evenings.

Recently, he seems more interested in being by himself. Sometimes he’ll just play with his baby keys in his cage or sit on the love seat on the other side of the room alone. He is eating plenty, no change in diet or bathroom habits. No symptoms of any other illness or ailment. I don’t mind if he is just feeling independent, even chalking it up to the spring crazies, but he seems more and more distant every day. He’s even started shunning nose rubs and will only settle for a few pets if he’s feeling particularly lazy (i.e. it’s not so much for enjoyment but merely because he can’t be bothered to move away, especially after he’s had his pellets).

No major changes recently. Diet is the same, schedule, environment. I let him out every morning from 6-9, come home for lunch to visit and offer some parsley, and he’s out from 5-11 every evening. I do clicker training with him and he was always so excited to play but even now he’s kind of reluctant to learn anything new. I plan to get him a full vet check next week but, other than a health problem, have I done something wrong? Genuinely, if he just prefers to be on his own I can live with it but it worries me sometimes if there is something I can do to help him.