Most adult buns don’t like being held so spaying or neutering would most likely not help in this respect. Baby bunnies though are always okay with being held. So I’d say this is completely normal and you shouldn’t be picking her up unless it’s absolutely necessary from now on.

Nipping may or may not be caused by hormones, so depending on why your bunny nipped, spaying her may or may not help. Bunnies nip as a form of communication too, so if she nipped you when you were trying to pick her up, that’s her way of communicating that she didn’t like what you were doing. My bunny nips me lightly sometimes when I’m in the way (e.g. if I am sitting in his path and he wants me to move). There is also the hormonal nipping where the bunny just nips in aggression because they are hormonal – in which case spaying or neutering would help.

The same goes for chewing – many fixed buns will still chew. It’s just a general bunny thing to do, which is why people still bunny proof areas where the bunny will be in even after they are fixed. If the destructive behaviours are caused by hormones though, then yes spaying would help

Regardless, it’s essential to spay female bunnies because of the high risk of uterine cancer.

Posted By becca on 7/19/2018 11:01 PM
My bunny is just reaching 4 months old. She has been nipping me and dislikes being held, as in the past, she didn’t mind it. She still gives me kisses and loves to be pet. She chewed her first cord, which happened to be my boyfriends new headphones.. I think it was because the cord was a netted type cord. Lol. I’m curious if this is all hormonal? Will spaying get rid of these behaviors?

Nipping is how bunnies communicate. Bunnies generally dislike being held and by nature, they love to
chew. So no, spaying likely won’t change her behaviours as shes being a normal rabbit.

I agree with the others. She’s 4 months and that means she’s starting puberty. A bun communicates with mips. My adult neutered bun nips me when he wants me to put him back down on the floor again. If I don’t comply, he nips harder. With time, you and your bun can learn to understand each other. Rabbits don’t have facial expressions or voices to communicate with, so they tend to use their mouth. When they’re young they don’t know how hard they can bite. With another rabbit, bites can be pretty hard without hurting, because rabbits have all that fur protecting their skin. We humans obviously don’t have that.

Rabbits will chew cords, especially thin cords like mobile charger cords and head phone cords. It can get expensive.

Oh yes, you are right in that she’s becoming hormonal. But even if a bun is desexed, it will go through a “teenage”-period when it becomes more independent and more obstinate and also more prone to taking risks and trying new things. That’s an inevitable part of growing up, for all mammals. (It doesn’t last forever though, the bun tends to calm down once it’s matured into proper adulthood.) Spaying won’t make a bun a baby again, but I doibt you expect that

Some buns, especially girls for some reason, can become rather horrible when they first hit puberty. They can be aggressive, cage aggressive, food aggressive, they can poop-and peemark everywhere and engage in relentless courting behavior. These unwanted behaviors as a rule get a lot better with a spay, although it can take several months before the hormones finally die down and the bunny goes back to being its normal, good self again.