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- 12/17/2018 at 4:41 PM
  Milothebuns
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  I’ve had Milo for about three months now and things are going pretty well. He’s recently starting flopping, and he’s usually waiting for me when I wake up in the morning and when I come home at night for pets. He’s also started hopping up on my bed on the weekends when I sleep in to sniff at me which I think is code for “please wake up now and feed me hoomin” which I think is pretty adorable. I had my friends come over to meet him this weekend and they brought one of his favorite treats, parsley. He was pretty overwhelmed at first which is to be expected but then was investigating them and letting them feed him, but he wouldn’t let anyone touch him which I wasn’t surprised about. But they have a six month old and he did let the baby pet him a bunch of times. It was only when I was holding the baby and we were all sitting on the ground together so I was just wondering if you guys thought that it’s because the baby is so small and closer to his size so he wasn’t scared, or do you think it’s because I was holding the baby? I’m just super curious because I thought he’d be scared of the baby too!!
- 12/17/2018 at 5:43 PM
  Pinkbun
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  It was only when I was holding the baby and we were all sitting on the ground together so I was just wondering if you guys thought that it’s because the baby is so small and closer to his size so he wasn’t scared, or do you think it’s because I was holding the baby? I’m just super curious because I thought he’d be scared of the baby too!!
  
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  I would say it’s abit of both. because you were all on the ground closer to his level. Rabbits prefere being on the ground than being held (where your friends trying to pick him up?) so he probably felt more stable on the ground. Also because you were holding the child. Your scent would be on the child and yr rabbit associates this as being safe (scents are very important to rabbits!) so this is why the rabbit alowed the child to pet the rabbit as your scent was on him and he felt more secure on the floor (eg able to flee if he wanted, investigate stuff etc.)
- 12/17/2018 at 6:11 PM
  Milothebuns
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  Thanks!! I was hoping that it was a sign he trusted me. I told my friends they definitely couldn’t pick Milo up because rabbits don’t like that, so they were just trying to pet him when they were sitting on the ground and he would come over to eat the parsley from their hands but he’d scurry off, but they definitely don’t smell like me haha.
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