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I’m in the Northwestern United States. Also, the area would be unsupervised and they’d be able to go inside to outside whenever they’d want.

I also get all of the seasons. I was wondering if the area is covered and they can go from inside to outside at their leisure if it would be okay to continue giving them access to outside during snowy days.…[Read more]

Wait? You’re not supposed to use a shopvac to vacuum up hay?  😛

I agree. If you cannot hide the cords or keep them out of reach, then you need to use something to cover them that a bunny can’t chew through. You can also block off areas, like behind a desk using NIC cube grids to make a fence.

As for the outdoor enclosure, if the intention is…[Read more]

I highly recommend going to a hardware store and getting PVC pipe if you truly want bunny-proofed cords. Things like the plastic corrugated loom will only be a delay tactic for a determined bun, so blocking, elevating, and hiding cords is the general first approach, and cords that cannot be put away should be covered in something rabbits cannot…[Read more]

Oh Thankyou so much for your wonderful advice! The bunny place has been incredible and advised a lot re. Cage, I’ve now doubled her cage size so it’s like 6ft by 9ft and I think she’s likely to stay in there during the first week, I am SO nervous of locking her in tomorrow 🙁 poor girl and it’s hard to get in there so will need to make sure I…[Read more]

It does sound like you’ve made a lot of progress!

Things that come to mind to try would be a different location (just to mix things up), such as a friend’s house and/or do some marathon sessions. When I’ve gotten to this point of stubborn buns I have had good luck with switching to marathoning next time I have a free weekend. So I would take my…[Read more]

Awww poor baby! You haven’t had her too long so I wouldn’t despair. She’s also very young and still hormonal which can make buns more skittish.

The best thing I’ve found to do with scared buns is to play “hard to get”. So spend a lot of time with them, but basically ignore them. Reading, watching a movie, messing around on your phone, etc. while…[Read more]

I know it’s been a few months since I chimed in, but we’re still in the dating process. It’s been about 6 months. We date up t0 6 hours at a time at this point before I need some sort of mental stimulation. lol

Smudge and Rascal aren’t necessarily friendly toward each other, but they don’t show aggression toward each other. Smudge will visit…[Read more]

Yes, food aggression is not uncommon. Some rabbits are particular tunnel-visioned with food…. crazy buns, haha.

As long as it’s resolving– that is fine; however, if it is continuous until you give them the food, that can be problematic because maybe you drop the bag one day or maybe they are misreading cues and you’re not actually going to…[Read more]

Cleaning the litterbox frequently is important, and also ensuring you have an appropriately sized litterbox is important too! Rabbits can poop 100+ times a day, so if a litterbox is too small, shallow, etc., one day of build up can be “not clean” for a while. Air circulation/ventilation is also really important so it’s not getting too humid (which…[Read more]

First off, take a deep breath! All of this is normal and it’s very likely they will bond just fine! It may take some time, but they will get there. I’m assuming no bun was actually injured in the fight? As long they are both fine you are good to keep going.

And yes it’s really normal to see some tense and aggressive behavior when you first start…[Read more]

Thank you so much, I will watch out for changes.

A little bit if mucus can come from irritation of the intestinal lining. The beass-on-a-string poop means there’s a bit of gut slowdown. This could be due to excessive ingestion of hair and its common when a bun is molting. It is molting-season now and it’s good if you can brush your bun to get loose hair off.

I’d just keep an eye, have some gas…[Read more]