Neutered male extremley hormonal a year after being fixed

[Ana K]

Hi eveyone,

I’m hoping someone can offer some advice on the problem I’m having with my neutered male. He is 7 and has been neutered a year ago, which is also as long as I’ve had him. He was bonded to my 3 year old female bunny relatively quickly and they have been getting along great all this time. This past december however, he started chasing her constantly (literally 24/7, only taking a few minutes to rest inbetween), humping and pulling out her fur. She runs away from him all the time and I had to make a provisional feeding station for her in a room he is afraid to enter, just so she can get some food and rest. They have free roam of the flat. Today he has even followed her to the room he NEVER enterd in a year!  I took him to the vet, everything is fine (including bloodwork). If this continues for a few more weeks we are scheduling further testing, since bloodwork is not always reliable when diagnosing adrenal gland issues. Has anyone had a similar experience? Nothing has changed in their rutine and environment whatsoever. I am trully perplexed and can not figure this out. Any advice will be much appreciated.

[BinkyBunny]

Sorry for the delay as our forum is not officially open yet as we are still updating so you may not get many responses for a while. You are doing the right thing getting your bunny to the vet to test bloodwork, adrenals and hormones.   Sometimes if a neuter wasn’t 100% successful, leaving behind enough to cause the hormones to still be the bunny’s system, that can be an issue too.     Rabbits can also get humpy if the OTHER rabbit has a UTI.

This was actually a problem for one of my bunnies too. We did finally solve the problem and it ended up being a bladder stone that was rubbing in bladder causing a sensation that made Jack want to hump.  Not sure if due to stress or just the feeling of needing to urinate all the time for him, or what, but we could not stop him from humping until after he had the stone removed and healed from surgery.  He definitely settled down after that.   He never showed signs of distress or problem urinating, but how I found out is he had a streak blood in his urine — I put hydrogen peroxide on the urine and it bubbled like crazy (only does that when there is blood).   The vet then felt his bladder and found a sizable stone.  The blood was from the stone rubbing and cutting his bladder wall with all of humping attempts.   You can see his story about this here — https://binkybunny.com/bunnyinfo/jacks-diet/

 

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