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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

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- 01/30/2014 at 11:32 PM
  RetroJester
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  My Nellie Belle has always run to see me when I walk in a room, cuddled with me when I’m lying down and been an all around sweet bunny. A couple days ago we moved, and we had an escaped bunny situation. I had to wrangle her down and physically catch her to get her back into her cage safe and sound, but it terrified her. I thought it would be better she get scared than getting lost alltogether, but now she is terrified of me! She won’t come to me and won’t respond when I call, and won’t put her nose against mine through the cage like she has since I got her. I’m so worried that I permanently damaged our relationship and I’m so upset about it. Will she get over this and go back to herself?
- 01/30/2014 at 11:39 PM
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  She will! Give her time. And you need to do everything you’ve always done with your interaction with her. Don’t change a thing – even when she doesn’t respond to you – it’ll all be good soon. Yep – she just got scare. Permanent damage – NA!
- 01/30/2014 at 11:41 PM
  manic_muncher
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  She will get over it, but it may take a lot of time. I would start interacting with her like she were brand new. Sitting quietly, treats beside you, etc. It probably won’t take as long as getting a new bun to trust you, but that incident terrified her as you said, so she just needs to get past it.
  
  And I can’t remember her age/neuter status, but any hormonal situation could also be a factor as well. I know as for my Bumpy, who wasn’t ever a snuggle-bun but he does come when I call him, whenever I do something that pisses him off, he will not come to me like usual for days. He does get over it, I’m sure Nellie will too.
- 01/31/2014 at 12:01 AM
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  Yep manic_muncher, I HAD to put Henry outside (outside! what was I thinking? Lol) cause our house was being sprayed for pests, and boy did he let me know he was unhappy! It took 3 days for him to acknowledge my presence. But yep, all good now. Phew!
- 01/31/2014 at 7:19 AM
  Sarita
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  Give her time – it’s probably more with the move than anything else.
- 02/04/2014 at 10:47 AM
  RetroJester
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  Thank you guys! Nellie is still not back to herself, but she’s getting there. I think the banana bribes are slowly winning her over!
- 02/04/2014 at 3:52 PM
  Elrohwen
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  She’ll get over it! Moving can be stressful for bunnies, so it might be related to that more than the capture. She’ll adjust.
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