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- 01/20/2019 at 2:12 AM
  Humphreybun
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  I’ve had my house rabbit Humphrey for four years and he lives in my bedroom with me yet he still seems very timid and afraid of me. It actually seems to be getting worse. When he was a baby I used to pick him up and hold him but he didn’t like it at all so I quickly stopped doing that and just spent time sitting with him
  on the floor/feeding him. I thought that over time he would start approaching me and get comfortable with me petting him, but that’s not what’s happened, he seems to be getting more nervous/flinchy as time goes on. I have sort of accepted it and just leave him to do his own thing most of the time but sometimes I look at him and just wish we could cuddle/I could pet him. Is it too late to get that bond with him? And what could I do to relax him
  More? The house is very quiet, we have no other pets or children so I’m
  Not sure what makes him so nervous. I have thought about getting him a companion to relieve his ‘grumpiness’ but am
  Not sure how that will go down .
  
  Thanks.
- 01/20/2019 at 7:22 AM
  JLH
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  has he been neutered?
- 01/20/2019 at 10:47 AM
  Humphreybun
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  Yes, we did wait quite a long time after getting him so he was neutered late, but it was definitely done aha!
- 01/20/2019 at 1:27 PM
  FlemishDad
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  Does he have private “safe space” he can hang out in – something enclosed with two exits where he can hide? Are there scary noises he doesn’t understand?
- 01/20/2019 at 2:23 PM
  JLH
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  my bun used too run if you surprised her when walking into a room, my vet suggested leaving a radio on with mellow music at low volume, this helped for my bun about 80%. having it too quiet will startle them more when all of a sudden there is noise. my bun is even ok now with my 4 and 8 year old grandaughters on the weekend. she even plays with them in the playroom they have in my house.
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