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- 03/10/2018 at 2:54 PM
  daisy406
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  Last night my boyfriend came over to spend the night. He has met Daisy (4 month old Dutch) before. We put her in her cage for the night at 1:00am and woke up at 5:30 due to her making a lot of noise telling me “HEY MOM IM UP!!!” I let her out gave her food and more water and hay and fell back asleep. Well later in the morning my boyfriend and I went to shower. When we came back in the room she wouldn’t go anywhere near me, and would run away and hide. She even hissed when I came close. This is very unusual she loves being pet. I gave her her space and went out to lunch with my boyfriend leaving her out so she could run around. I came back and she was still hiding. I opened up the door to the living room (sometimes I let her out here to run in an even bigger space) and she began to allow me to pet her but was pooping very soft long large poops. Was binking around running around and allowing me to pet her again. Should I be concerned with all of this behavior even though she allowed my boyfriend and I to interact with her and was binking again?
- 03/10/2018 at 8:09 PM
  Wick & Fable
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  I’d be more concerned about the poop difference. The scare could be from shower noises. Wick gets scared by water going down the drain at the very end if I turn off the bathroom fan that provides white noise to drown it out.
  
  Long, soft poops… It could be lack of hay, a recent consumption of wet veggies, or poop that’s elongated and soft because it’s encasing a fur chunk. Any changes in her eating, and is she shedding heavily?
  
  The answers provided in this discussion are for general guideline purposes only. The information is not intended to diagnose or treat your pet. Seek the advice of your veterinarian or a qualified behaviorist.
- 03/11/2018 at 10:16 AM
  daisy406
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  She’s not shedding really not that i’ve noticed. Her poop went back to normal probably 4 mins later… it was just alarming.
- 03/12/2018 at 7:24 AM
  Luna
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  In the absence of shedding and dietary changes, it sounds like her behavior and subsequent poop change was stress related. As Wick pointed out, something may have scared her. Has your boyfriend showered there before? Maybe she got spooked by the smell of his shampoo or soap?
- 03/12/2018 at 10:49 AM
  daisy406
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  yes my boyfriend has showered here before. It’s in a completely separate room, it is extremely hard to hear the shower from inside my room where the bunny stays, and my boyfriend uses all natural usually non scented products, even so he used my products which obviously daisy has smelled before. Could she have just gotten moody due to jealousy of my boyfriend and I spending a lot of time together (not including her)?
- 03/12/2018 at 10:59 AM
  Wick & Fable
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  Rabbits can get jealous, but it seems she was more spooked. Most likely something happened while you were in the shower, like maybe a bang or something and she got very spooked. Rabbits also hear things humans can’t, so it could be something we cannot perceive. There’s a scene in Bradley Cooper’s movie Burnt that Wick stomps and runs away to, even though it sounds pretty much the same as a dozen other scenes in that movie. Who knows!
  
  If it happens again in the future and your boyfriend is around, that could be more the cause, but this seems like a standalone event.
  
  The answers provided in this discussion are for general guideline purposes only. The information is not intended to diagnose or treat your pet. Seek the advice of your veterinarian or a qualified behaviorist.
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