My rabbit (Loelia) is spayed and is about 8 months old. She has never once bitten me or anyone ever before. Not even when we would have to try to get her into her carrier or when we were first starting out with her harness and she wasn’t too sure about it yet. She has been very upset with me before and has never even tried to bite me. She nips sometimes when she wants attention and I ignore her nudges.
The other day I took something she was trying to get into away from her and when I came back I kissed her a few times and went to pet her and she bit my wrist. I dismissed it as her being upset about not being able to be naughty anymore and didn’t think about it too much. Later that night she was on my chest cuddling me (I don’t grab her or force her to cuddle I will lay on my back and she will come lay on my chest and give me kisses,”purr”, and “groom” my shirt or the blanket). Well anyways we had been cuddling for around 45 minutes and she randomly licked my neck twice and then bit me very hard (not like her little nips) and then just continued to lay on me. I said ouch loudly and dint think much of it. Then the next day she bit me three more times (every time we had been cuddling for a while and she licked the spot once or twice before biting the exact same spot). Since then I have been nudging her away with my chin whenever I feel like she is going towards my neck.
I have been saying ouch and sounding super hurt when she does it, because I thought maybe she doesn’t know she is hurting me.
PLEASE help I can’t find much on the internet at all. Any and all opinions are welcome.
What should I do? why might she be doing this all of a sudden? why is she biting me in the same exact spot? should I take her to the vet? Is she trying to tell me something?
Thank you!