Help Please

[somebunnylovesyou]

Dear Members,

I would love some more help to understand my rabbit. She is a 4 month old Holland Lop.  I am sure that she is hitting sexual maturity. I know that I could have her spaded, but I might be leaving my home soon. I don’t know if I should have her spaded because of this. I really wish I could take her with me. I don’t really know how to go about taking her with me though. I know that a lot of things have changed when it comes to taking your animal with you. I just don’t know if I should think about taking her in the house full time because she is outside, but I normally play with her so much that she in the house most of the day. She was really sweet till now. She has stared to spray my mom with urine and leave dropping all over where we both sit. She is fine in the morning on my bedroom floor. In the afternoon she is aggressive and does such things as I have said. I know it might be because of her hitting maturity, but if I leave she will have no on to take care of her if she is the house. As I said I have no idea who to go about taking her with me. I would if I knew how or whatever. Anyway, I know that my dad wouldn’t like me having her spaded because we have a lot of rabbits. All taken care as best as we can do for them all. I also try to teach my dad better ways to take care of rabbits. I am now reading so much about them and have checked out so many books from my library to better understand rabbits. I just hope that you might have some helpful advice. I will take your advice into consideration and will be very grateful! Thanks!!

– Tiffany

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Where will you be going and how will you be traveling?

[MooBunnay]

Hi! You should definitely get your bunny spayed – its really the only way to help with some of those behaviors you mentioned like the territorial marking and the pee spraying. Also – once your bunny is spayed it will be easier to keep her indoors because you can easily litterbox train her. Also, you can mention to your Dad that spaying females bunnies prevents them from getting cancer when they get older, as well as if your bunny is spayed then you will not have to worry about her getting pregnant very young because that would not be healthy for her. I would definitely recommend getting your bunny spayed and indoors as soon as possible – the outdoors can be very dangerous for bunnies considering the predators and insects that are outside. Even if she is not yet spayed you can start litterbox training her and getting her used to the house. There are some pictures of indoor friendly cages in the galleries on this website that you can think about for when your bunny comes indoors!

[BinkyBunny]

Welcome somebunnylovesyou!

Wow, I sure hope Cookie sees this post! (maybe I’ll email her to come take a look) I bet she could offer some great advice because she was in a similar situation with her own father not wanting her bunny to be spayed. Like MooBunnay said, cancer is high in unspayed females. Spaying will also help take care of many of these behaviorial issues. Still a bit confused about why your dad doesn’t want her spayed – does he want more bunnies? I mean how does having her spayed relate to all the other bunnies?

The other thing you said was that no one would take care of her if she was in the house – so are you saying someone will take care of her if she’s out of the house? Sorry, I just need to clarify so I can answer properly.

ALso, this next part may be private, but if not, will you be living in a place that can accept animals? If so, are you just worried about the finances of taking care of her? If this part you really can’t reveal, that’s okay, it’s just that if you can, then maybe we can help figure out a way to take her with. But either way, Spaying is the way to go!

[cookie627]

first binky bunny thank you for the email!! i basicly skipped this post. (i wasn’t on for like about a week)

well i just recently got my bun neutered on the 15th of augest. i also was in the same position as you. my dad didn’t wan’t me getting my bun neutered. (like binky bunny mentioned) but i told my mom all the problems and she said it was fine. BUT. . . my dad wasn’t like that. i needed to do some talking with him. like what would stop when i got surgery and all those good and bad things. but like a month begging him hw gave in but he said “you pay with your own money” i said sure. it was great. but i had a REALLY hard time finding the “perfect” rabbit vet. (took me like one and a half to two months. but i pulled through.

[somebunnylovesyou]

Thanks for the advice. I am going to be moving to India. They have rabbits over there too. I would have her in air conditioning. I told my boyfriend there is no wa I will move with him there till he gets that. I am moving to far that is why I wanted to make sure someone is taking care of her. I will move back to USA after 2 years I hope, but that is a lot of time not being here. Yeah, bummer. I love the whole litter… Little Red, Cottontail, and Peewee. They are all so sweet. I would take them all in my home. I am sure they are all female.

[Gravehearted]

Wow, India! I would be very concerned about how well she might travel  since that’s an awfully long distance to try and move a bunny. You would need to find an airline that would allow you to bring her in the cabin.

this is helpful since it provides some good tips on air travel with rabbits:

homepage.mac.com/mattocks/morfz/flytips.html

different airlines policies on pet travel, many of them do not take rabbits unfortunately.

http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/caring_for_pets_when_you_travel/traveling_by_air_with_pets/summary_of_airline_pettransport_policies.html

Also, she really needs to be spayed prior to leaving the US for two years. Rabbits are still considered an exotic pet and many vets are not knowledgable enough about rabbits to give them proper care.  You want to ensure the spay is performed by a vet that does many success spays every year.  I have no idea how common rabbits are as pets in India and how hard it may be to find a rabbit vet there.

 

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