Just when you start wondering about them….

[Michelle&Lolli]

They show how smart they are.   

Lolli usually goes in her box at night.  I will usually close up the pen and pick her up to snuggle on the couch for however long she’ll let me.  I know this is totally horrible…but I can’t pick her up any other way.  Plus, it’s my only way to make sure she is fine in general and check her over. 

Well lately I’ve been messing with her ears since she keeps shaking her head and scratching.  I put vitamin E oil on them last night and she has been doing better.  I’ve also been having to check her dewlap cause she has a tiny bald spot.  In the past, this has indicated her obessive grooming so I have to keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t turn into a big open sore.  So far so good though.

So…..guess who is absolutely positively NOT going in her box tonite?  LOL    She keeps sleeping out in the pen area and if I get near her or look like I’m going to get near her, she hops behind the end table.  Little stinker.  She does get stroked and massaged all over so it’s not like she doesn’t like THAT part of it.  lol  I can’t blame.  I wouldn’t want to be picked up and poked at either.  I keep telling her I just have to make sure she’s ok.  And I get the disapproving “I’m FINE. No touching. No talking. No looking.” look.    It’s just funny how they are sometimes. I swear they are funner than dogs or cats.  haha  

(And yes, I know funner isn’t a word. lol)

[RabbitPam]

Yes, they are very, very smart. It’s the biggest surprise to new bunny owners I think. And yesterday Samantha had one of those big, gooey gunks in her eye (she gets them on occasion and they float around) that I went to get out and she was truly fierce to get me away from her. I thought I’d had it, but a couple of hours later it reappeared – and she let me get it out. finally clued in that I was trying to make her feel better.

So I think you need to keep checking her, although I suggest that you do that on the floor without picking her up for a few times, just to give her some relief and not reinforce to her that being picked up means poking every time. For a few days, pick her up for pets only, short times and set her down. Let her associate that with pleasurable interaction. It will help in the long run.

[bunnytowne]

We are just trying to help them but gosh do they make it difficult. 

Cotton has been getting more ornery about having his lip doctored up.   He fusses in his towel more then he had b4.  Gosh Cotton don’t you feel better after I treat it and that growing scab is removed.   Goodness.

 

[Michelle&Lolli]

For a few days, pick her up for pets only, short times and set her down. Let her associate that with pleasurable interaction. It will help in the long run.

This is what I usually do. And what i was going to do last night. just snuggle and stroke her all over. She starts grinding her teeth and goes all relaxed so I know she likes it. But she’s just not having any of it right now. lol And I gotta mess with her again cause she has poopy butt for some reason again. Sigh.

[MimzMum]

Fiver is WAY sensitive about having his face touched…well, anything on him really….
His eyes are a big no-no. And they often get little eye boogies in them. If I want to get at them, I have to be sneaky about it…but he actually has some terrific peripheral vision and there’s almost no angle I can come from that he doesn’t see me from a mile away.
He surprised me recently though…I was doing major grooms for all 3 buns, and he, who usually will box and bite the grooming glove, just about made me fall off my chair by puddling into a bun loaf immediately when I came at him with the glove. I got to give him a good grooming and took about 5 bunnies off him before he finally decided enough was enough. Not typical at all for him!
(It’s only taken me 3 years to get him to trust that thing….OI!)
I think animals who run primarily on instinct can be the most keen of all. It’s not anything you’d see in a heavily domesticated dog, for instance. A well trained dog is going to act as the master requires, but bunnies are still ‘from the wild’…and will react as such even in the posh surroundings of our homes.
In fact, I think they’ve had it planned that way all along…. <_<

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