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I don’t find the time-out to work/make sense either — I don’t think many rabbits are going consistently and reliably make the several associations needed for that training tactic to work. Intuitively, I think it asks rabbits to understand the following: 1) nipping = bad, 2) put in cage = because you nipped me, 3) being put in cage = punishment…[Read more]

Thanks Dana.  He’s very much a diva and he currently is only eating hay or dandelion if I hand feed him. His pellets went untouched and the greens that I didn’t handfeed.

That said they were doing the sniffing each other when Miu was in her expanded pen and I decided if I was going to do it, this was the best time. (I hadn’t seen you 2nd post)…[Read more]

Appreciate your response, I also felt the same way when reading about holding their head down and similar methods, but was willing to give it a go.

I’ve had rabbits before and they’ve not been like this at all so was a little surprised he was so nippy so quickly.

I’ve had him coming up for three weeks now, I picked him up at 8 weeks old and he’s…[Read more]

The idea of trying to assert dominance over a rabbit via holding their head down or similar methods, to me personally, makes no sense and I have not heard of cases where it is reliably effective. If anything, it simply creates a negative association and the rabbit distances themselves from the owner, therefore eliminating whatever problematic…[Read more]

love that!

Oh, you mean he might stop eating just in general? Then yes you should definitely take a break until he’s back to normal. He might do better with an every-other day bonding schedule. I did that with Bun Jovi most recently just to be sure not to over-stress him.

Oh that’s wonderful! Thank you for the update, and you’re welcome!

They look great together!!

What about the not eating though?

well kind of cute story I was playing the piano Beethoven’s 5th symphony and he had his ear perked as if he recognized it.

Padfoot was beautiful! I hope you and Mooney are doing reasonably ok.

Quite astonishin! Now you just need to get a tiny little piano!

Hi DanaNM,

I just wanted to thank you again for the advice in this thread. In a time when I would question the smallest thing, knowing that the steps we were taking were the correct ones and what not to do helped massively.

After a few weeks of them living alongside one another. We decided to turn our bathroom into a neutral zone and placed some…[Read more]

alright i will try my best to research as hard as i can to know and prevent the uri from worsening. But as per the other comments ive replied i am getting quite a mix review from the vets so i might just go for another check up for a confirmation using your advice. Is there a children benadryl brand that you’d recommend?

ill try my best to ask them using ur advice, but the last appointment we had with the second vet told me shes really healthy and her lungs are fine with the xray ive shown to them

yes ive been to two vets that has experience working with rabbits for advice and to check up on my rabbit. The first check up was last year and we also did an xray scan and the vet told me she has overgrown roots and because of that it causes teary eyes and sneezing, so they gave me flu medicine and antibiotics to help her. It worked for a few…[Read more]

I think I would keep up the dates, but don’t force him to interact with her when it isn’t a date, if that makes sense?

As hard as it is not to comfort him, try not to. The idea is for him to learn to go to her for comfort, or to at least realize she isn’t all that bad!

Sometimes it takes a while of one bun sitting frozen in a corner for things…[Read more]

LBJ10 – Yes we have a lot to do in the garden! Everything beyond those two wooden fence posts (one of which has fallen over) is the neighboring property, but the garden beds were completely overrun with vines. But I think we should be able to get it in shape slowly but surely! I definitely had some fun with the loppers. We are dreaming of planting…[Read more]