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- 07/22/2017 at 8:57 AM
  Willow Lien
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  My baby bunny has just begun to enter puberty and I am finding her behavior to be quite different from what we experienced with our first baby girl.
  
  Our first girl would honk and lung and bite, dig, pull out her fur, basically all the stuff you read about online.
  
  Or new girl is being more like a female cat in heat. She is posturing to be mounted when we pet her, humping us occasionally, and generally being SO friendly and does not want to leave our side. She is pooping outside her box a bit more but not peeing outside it like our other girl did.
  
  Her litterbox smell has changed and she is chewing up stuff a bit more aggressively, so there is SOME normality lol. She does dig at us sometimes but mostly she wants to sit in my lap ALL THE TIME and really begs for attention when we pass her room.
  
  I am GLAD she (so far) is not aggressive like our first girl (who is not aggressive anymore of course, she is spayed and a year old now). I just found it curious that she is displaying such different behavior. I hope this means she will remain friendly after her spay. Our older girl lost her friendliness at puberty and never did get it back. She is very standoffish. My daughter and I have been working with her to allow us to pet her more and we are making some good progress.
  
  What were your experiences?
  
  This is the hormonal little sweetie in for a good snuggle:
- 07/22/2017 at 9:03 AM
  jerseygirl
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  I suppose everybun is different! My 1st girl was more like your 1st girl. Developed some attitude!
  
  Maybe it is partly the season as well as when she’s hit puberty? Perhaps Spring/Summer is making rabbits more receptive to mating?
  
  Is she a mini rex bun?
- 07/22/2017 at 9:21 AM
  Willow Lien
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  Yes she is a mini-rex! Well spotted. (no pun intended lol). Totally different breed from my other girl. It was fall when my first girl hit puberty, I believe we had her spayed in October or November.
- 07/22/2017 at 9:51 AM
  jerseygirl
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  It might be a mini rex quirk also. From what members here in the past have said, they can be “kissy” buns. Maybe she’ll be affectionate always? Without the humping hopefully. Lol !
- 07/23/2017 at 6:34 PM
  LittlePuffyTail
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  Could be just a rex thing. Like Jersey mentioned, Rex’s are quite well known for being friendly and kissy. My first bun, Stormy, was a Mini-Rex and what a little guy! He was super bonded to both me and my husband and gave tons of kisses. Never had a more friendly bunny than him. If you have a Rex, consider yourself lucky
- 07/27/2017 at 6:52 AM
  Willow Lien
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  Oh wow! So glad to hear Rexes are so sweet She has certainly stolen our hearts.
- 08/10/2017 at 8:03 AM
  Willow Lien
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  UPDATE: She doesn’t seem to be hormonal anymore. She does some very quiet honking very rarely but she is back to being just super cuddly. She is about 2lb 10oz now. I want to wait a bit more before I have her spayed. I wish my other girl had been this mellow!
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