Is this normal for a 11 week old female?

[Xxventanaxx]

I’m not home in at work and my fiancé told me she let the bunny out running around and she’s buying the carpet the blinds the table and she even bit her when she pick her up. It’s her first time really running out of the cage for an extended period of time in the last two days since we both have had major
Overtime at work. Tummy is still squishy and other then that she doesn’t look sick. Could it be her hormones or is something wrong?

[Bam]

It could be onset of puberty. Small breeds start puberty young. Will she still eat a pellet if offered one? I always use treats to assess my bunnies’ health.

[Xxventanaxx]

No she does not eat a pellet but she has eaten a 1/4 of them since I left for work. She eats her treats no problem. I hope she’s ok

[Roberta]

It sounds like she is being a typical young bunny and getting into everything. The bite was probably because she hadn’t finished her run of mischief through the house and didn’t want to go back in her enclosure.

[Bam]

Thank you Roberta =)

Xxventanaxx, Roberta has extensive knowledge of young bunnies.

[Xxventanaxx]

I understand but I’m just nervous. She doesn’t seem to be the same. She lays down all comfy looking with legs spread out and she binkies still while running. She’s stomping her feet sometimes alone in the cage. She’s eating drinking and pooping but to me she’s not eating enough. Do bunnies go through phases or some night where they just won’t eat as much?

[Roberta]

How old is she ? I am having trouble finding it in the post.

[Roberta]

Oh, 11 weeks, just found it. They will go t h rough a transitional stage after weaning. As long as she is eating her hay etc it should be ok, the novelty of solid food will be starting to wear off and she will regulate her own diet to a degree. Watch her poops, if they change that is your early warning system.

[Xxventanaxx]

Posted By Roberta on 8/30/2015 2:53 AM
Oh, 11 weeks, just found it. They will go t h rough a transitional stage after weaning. As long as she is eating her hay etc it should be ok, the novelty of solid food will be starting to wear off and she will regulate her own diet to a degree. Watch her poops, if they change that is your early warning system.

What do you mean regulate her diet cause her pellets are only about half gone when they are usually 3/4 gone overnight. I just looked at her and she was resting all stretched out. Her poops look normal and her belly is squishy. We found some small and long skinny poops behind her cage when we were cleaning them last night and I looked them up and they said that’s dangerous meaning she could be sick of dehydrated but we don’t know when those came to be since she likes to go under her cage while running around. I just don’t want to lose my bun bun. Do they usually just lay around a lot during the day?

[Bam]

Bunnies absolutely lay around most of the day. It’s what they do. Then they have outbursts of activity in the mornings and evenings.
I think what Roberta means when she talks about regulating her food intake is that at 11 weeks, solid food has lost its wow-factor, pellets have become old news and she will eat less of them (although still as much as she needs.)
That she’ll eat a treat but not a pellet is another sign of this.

[Roberta]

Exactly bam, some bunnies never losevthe thrill of pellets, others self regulate. Starsky is a pellet pig, Pepper, Piglet, Pipi, Nermal and Pandora can have a dish full of pellets but have little interest if there is freh hay in the tray.

[Bam]

I have one pellet-pig (Bam) and one (Yohio) that only eats his pellets when there’s nothing else except “old” hay.

Edit: And come to think of it, Yohio positively devoured his pellets when he was young (I don’t know his exact age, but he was half the weight he’s now so he must’ve been pretty young). I don’t remember exactly when the pellets-devouring stopped, but it did. Now if I offer him a pellet he’s utterly unimpressed.

[Xxventanaxx]

Can I start giving her vegetables now?

[Bam]

If she’s 12 weeks, it’s veggie-intro-time. Start with small pieces of a bunny-safe veg like romaine lettuce.

[Xxventanaxx]

Posted By bam on 8/31/2015 3:16 AM

If she’s 12 weeks, it’s veggie-intro-time. Start with small pieces of a bunny-safe veg like romaine lettuce.

we dont think shes 12 weeks yet.  When we got her 3 weeks ago the breeder said 8 weeks.  So Im not 100% sure. Ill wait till sunday jsut to be sure.

[Bam]

=)
It won’t hurt her to not start fresh greens until Sunday, and I really do think that you will feel safer doing everything “by the book”. That way you know you’ve done everything you possibly can to ensure her health and happiness =)

[Xxventanaxx]

Posted By bam on 8/31/2015 9:50 AM
=)
It won’t hurt her to not start fresh greens until Sunday, and I really do think that you will feel safer doing everything “by the book”. That way you know you’ve done everything you possibly can to ensure her health and happiness =)

Yeah I think I will wait until Sunday. I want to mostly go by the book. Last night she didn’t eat a lot of pellets again like the day before but it’s ok because she finished them through out the day and lots of hay. She is overall happy but is starting to nip and chew on everything now. I just want the type of bunny that jumps up to the couch and cuddles with me or circles my feet cause she is happy to see me just stuff like that

[Bam]

Young bunnies want to chew things and nip, just like little children and puppy-dogs. It’s part of their learning about the world. Some rabbits stay chewers. You should provide stuff she’s alowed to chew, but she may still chew other stuff as well.

I have one rabbits that jumps up on my bed and cuddles with me every evening, but not all rabbits will do that.

[Xxventanaxx]

Posted By bam on 8/31/2015 11:32 AM

Young bunnies want to chew things and nip, just like little children and puppy-dogs. It’s part of their learning about the world. Some rabbits stay chewers. You should provide stuff she’s alowed to chew, but she may still chew other stuff as well.

I have one rabbits that jumps up on my bed and cuddles with me every evening, but not all rabbits will do that.

how do I get them to stop chewing and how do I get them to want to cuddle all the time.

[Bam]

You don’t really get a bunny, especially a baby bunny to stop chewing. Chewing and digging are things rabbits do. You have to block off the spaces where you don’t want her to chew, get cable-covers for your electric cords and supply her with stuff she’s allowed to chew, like wood and branches and twigs from safe trees (most commonly apple, willow) and cardboard boxes.

You can of course make a bunny realize that cuddling is very nice, but it’s not a sure thing that she’ll always want to cuddle when you want to. Rabbits often like to decide when it’s cuddling-time. Many rabbits love being pet, on their own terms – very, very few rabbits like to be lifted up or held once they’ve gotten over the baby-stage. As Lux gets into her “teens” she will go through a stage of emancipation if you will, when she’ll demonstrate her “independence”, more or less like a human teenager. This is however a transitory phase and may not become very pronounced in all bunnies, and I’m assuming you are planning to have her spayed when she’s old enough anyway.

Try to be patient and bear with her. She’s a little girl, silly and stubborn and curious, and she’s exploring her world now, she’s learning how to be a rabbit and not just a little baby.

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