Foot flicks

[Ana]

So I had a bonding session with my lionhead last night.  We get along great, but she’s still getting used to me and all.  She gives me kisses, lets me pet her a lot, and is fine if I want to hold her.  She doesn’t bite, only accidentally scratches, and is relatively well mannered.  So I just assumed everything she did was mostly endearing.  Until I looked up “foot flicks” in the language of lagomorphs.  It means she’s annoyed, kind of like “flipping me off”.  But why?  I can groom her, cuddle, pet, be groomed back, but she foot flcisk me?

Help!

[Princess*Smudge]

I don’t know if this helps much, but my bun is just what I like to call a little diva princess. She really enjoys her playtime and cuddle time too but she will be the first one to let me know with a flick or a thump that I have annoyed her, most of the time I don’t even know what I’ve done. Sometimes it’s if I stopped petting her before she wanted me to, or started petting her when she didn’t want me to, got in her way, stood above her or moved to fast.. or just generally she feels she has to tell me off. I can’t really explain it lol. There might be a specific something you’re doing, maybe she doesn’t like the way you are holding her or doesn’t like to be stroked as much on a certain area, but it sounds like she is enjoying herself. Or it might just be a case of rabbitude.

[kralspace]

My 2 princess divas never miss an opportunity to flick me off, sometimes just to remind me that I am servant, they are the queens.

Kathy

[Beka27]

i do wonder about the “flicking off” thing. Meadow and Max do this all the time, but i sometimes think it is not so much really “annoyed”, as just taunting, “haha… i am running away from you! you can’t get me!”

try not to take it too personally… ;o)

[Ana]

Okay, I’ll try not to take it personally. :p Thanks. (Should I try to change my behavior, or just figure she’ll reallly tell me off if she needs to?)

[MarkBun]

You’ll know when a bun is peeved at you. Trust me.

[Balefulregards]

I can tell you that bringing Coco home this afternoon after her first Vet visit….One Peeved Bunny. If Lasers could shoot out of her eyes and melt me, I think she would.

[JK]

Oh listen I get foot flicked all the time too and can’t figure out what I have done.  OK sometimes I know!  Yesterday I picked up Edson and walked him around the outside world!  That means out of the office!  He will not step foot out of there.  I slowly walked him up and down the hall, into the living room, through the kitchen and back to his room. I got the ultimate foot flick when I put him down.  He shook his entire body and did a 9 yard dash of foot flicks back to his cage! I felt bad but did laugh behind his back…just trying to show him that it is really ok to come out of the office!  There are no boogie men, really! 

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

My lionhead footflicks and stomps alot! Maybe they are so inbred their signals are crossed LOL Often there is no discernable reason for a foot flick, but sometimes I think she does it when she wants to be chased (Kahlua loves to be chased)

[Beka27]

i was just thinking, “Knowls took Edson OUTSIDE?!” lol!

question, have you ever taken him out and put him down somewhere else? does he just bolt back to his room?

[JK]

No Beka – not the real outside!  Just beyond the office.  Yes we have put him on the carpet in the hall just outside the office and he takes off like a mad man foot flicking all the way back to his room.  We can’t figure out why he is such a chicken! But I think you said once if I got him a friend that ventured out he may follow!

[MooBunnay]

haha, he is not a CHICKEN just a bit of a hermit Hey, if you like your home, no reason to go anywhere else, right? I mean, who knows what could be out there….there could be slippery flooring, or what if he missed pellet time??

[Scarlet_Rose]

Posted By markusdark on 07/23/2008 12:37 PM
You’ll know when a bun is peeved at you. Trust me.

 

 

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LOL Markus that it sooo true!!!

 

  

Kathy – You had me laughing so hard I almost fell off the chair. Yes, my princess diva-bun also never misses an opportunity to feet flick me too.

[kralspace]

who was it here that explained IBS (Irritable Bunny Syndrome)?

[Deleted User]

Foot flicks … oohh I would be happy with just a few of those … wanna swap bunnies

[JK]

Dawn!  Why on earth would you want foot flicks!!!!!!?????

[Deleted User]

Beats getting bitten and footflicks don’t hurt

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

LOL Edson sounds like Dave-it’s horror to get that man to leave the house!! LOL

[COOKIE'N FLUFF MOMMA]

One of my lionheads  foot-flicks alot. She is definatly the more sassy of the two. I think it is kindof a taunting thing.

K&K- funny about the inbred thing.

[Ana]

I tried to get her to do while video taping her, and for an hour she barely did it! I don’t get it. Admittedly I even tried to annoy her to get it on tape. Nothing. But now she’s figured out the joys of chewing on my pant hems. I tell her “No!”, and she thinks it’s a game.

[Sage Cat]

As Beka said: Kay & Winston all so do the taunting, “haha… i am running away from you! you can’t get me!”

This whole “context” thing is tricky!

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