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Hmmm, I wouldn’t go to alfalfa hay since he was eating timothy before. Maybe he’s filling up on lettuce? Sometimes a particular bag of hay is “off” and a bun with snub it, so you might try to get a new bag/brand of timothy and see if that helps. If you hold out a few strands of hay, will he take it from you? For some reason hay that’s been…[Read more]

So cute! I agree it looks like happy/playing.

Glad you figured it out! My bunnies HATE cooking sounds, especially the sound of things sizzling in a pan. I wonder if it sounds like a snake to them? We used to morbidly joke they were afraid we were going to eat them.

My do seem like they got used to it though.

He is very cute and what a perfect name!

I’m not sure on the breed, but some of the other forum moderators are better with the breed game than I am. To me he looks like he could be a lionhead with maybe with some dwarf in there (based on head shape and ear size)? He might have a small amount of wooly or angora somewhere in his genes to give him…[Read more]

Maybe you could try playing some soft piano, or other gentle music and see if that helps to calm her down?

Agreed, it’s definitely instinctive behavior, for you sound very responsible and kind, two things that rabbits like! 😉

That’s great 🙂

Sometimes when rabbits have to be separated for illness they come right back together without issue. Sometimes they even seem like “OMG I missed you so much!”

Ok that is helpful! Rabbits can start to smell very differently once they hit puberty and are castrated, so falling outs can happen. If they are aggressive through the bars, sometimes it’s best to hang up a towel or another visual barrier so they aren’t constantly just like “LET ME AT EM” at each other.

Are you doing and side swaps or litter box…[Read more]

Those pictures don’t look like pain positions to me. Every bunny is different, but when my bunnies are in pain postures they will also squint and just seem tense all around. If you only notice the tooth grinding when she is sleepy or your petting her that sounds like tooth-purring to me. 🙂

If she is eating and pooping then I think she is feeling…[Read more]

Completely normal. 🙂

Some bunnies will eat them straight from their bum right as they come out, others will let them fall to the floor then turn around and eat them (or some combo of the two!)

One of my rabbits is scared of cooking noises and smells. It’s something that hasn’t gone away in over a year, but it has lessened.

I’m glad you have figured out the cause!

I do think she could get used to cooking smells with time. The fear is instinctive, but with time, when nothing bad happens in conjunction with the smell, its reasonable to think that she will become desensitised to it. Its not practical for animals (or humans) to freak out at everyday things, so…[Read more]

That makes sense to me, my Elmer HATES the sound of me eating and I guess some smells too. If I start chewing (especially crunching food) near him he starts running around thumping. Luckily he isn’t in the room I eat so I don’t eat when I’m around him.

Okay, I feed my bunny pellets in the morning with some veggies. She doesn’t bother even touching the hay. I only give her access to pellets once in the morning that’s all

Hi, thank you for your answer! 🙂 Turns out it is smells of our food at dinner time which scares her and it is nothing to do with me or the door!

Thank you so much for your message it helped reassure me and I took your advice, but turns out it wasn’t me who was the problem after all. She is only afraid when I open the door after we have been cooking in the Kitchen. The smells of our dinner is what frightens her. It is sad to see her get so scared every single dinner time.

Hi, thank you so much for your answer. I discovered it wasn’t me, or the squeak of the door or the reflection but the smell of our food at dinner time. Whenever we have cooked in the Kitchen and then open the door to bring our meals in, that’s when she freaks out. I wish she wouldn’t be so scared every time.