So Jealous

[mindy10]

Ok so Im so jealous of people that post pictures of their bunnies laying on their lap or beside them!! LOL.  I do believe some bunnies are just lovable and some are not.  Or should I say some bunnies are more scared then others.  Blossom will let me pat her but i don’t even know if she likes it.  The most i get out of her is once in a while she will come out of her cage and nudge at my feet with her nose. But I dont know if that is hi or get the heck out of my way!! ha ha.  I sometimes wonder if she was in the main house with us if she would get more friendly.  She pretty much stays in the family room. I cant get her to come over the threshold because you have to step up and she wont step up.  The closest she got to stepping up is when she was trying to follow the cat into the other room but then she steped right down into the family room again!!    Oh well I guess i have to come to the conclusion is she will probably not be a very friendly rabbit.  But I still love the little cutey!!

 

[kamdynandsunshinesmom]

All rabbits have different personalities. I have 2 rabbits a male and a female. My male rabbit loves to be picked up and can sit in my lap for hours upon hours. My female doesn’t like it so much. She loves to come and sit next to me on the floor as I pet her for a long time. She will even snuggle with me under a blanket if I am laying on the floor. Other than that she hates to be picked up and hates to cuddle in bed. Some rabbits are just different. My rabbit lives in bedroom and bother with me and my mom since we are the only one in the house. What part of the house does she live in? It could be if you haven’t had her awhile she might just need to get use to the area. Hope things work out. Try having a treat in your hand when she comes out and just let her sniff you up and down so she can get use to you!

[Elrohwen]

They all have different personalities. Hannah loves to be petted, but she will absolutely not sit next to me or on my lap. The second I’m done petting she’s off to another activity. I just appreciate that she does like to be petted and let her do her own thing when she wants. She has a lot of energy and just isn’t the type of rabbit to flop next to you (or flop at all) when she can be out doing something. She’s so entertaining though and I love watching her explore.

Otto will now sit on my lap on the couch for about 10min, but only because I trained him to do that by feeding him pellets while he’s up there (I’ve decreased the amount of treats and increased the amount of time he sticks around). He’ll also lick my nose every couple of minutes, but once again it’s because I trained him to do that. I have no problem with buying his love! Haha. He’s going to be 3 years old in a month and he just started doing this recently – things with rabbits take time! It’s really a relationship that will evolve over the rabbit’s entire life as long as you continue to spend time with them and work to build a bond. It was hard for me at times when Otto just didn’t want anything to do with me (I’d say that phase has been at least 2 out of his 3 years, on and off) but I loved him for who he was and rejoiced when he showed little signs of wanting to build a bond with me. Clicker training him really opened him up – he learned that I was a source of fun things instead of someone who just wanted to pet him and bother him all the time and I think that was the beginning of us starting to bond. Finding an activity you can do with your no-touchy rabbit really can make a difference.

You really have to spend a lot of time with an aloof rabbit to keep building that bond. I don’t have any other pets or kids, so I spend a lot of time just interacting with them and having them near me. If I had let Otto just do his own thing he’d be as aloof now as he was a couple years ago.

[Elrohwen]

Addressing the problem with her not coming out of the family room – in our old house Otto didn’t like crossing the dining room floors to get to the living room so there were nights where he wouldn’t come out and visit at all. He would hang out on the second floor of his maze haven, so I started just picking it up while he was in there and carrying the whole thing out. When it was time for bed he learned to hop back in the maze to be carried back. Maybe you could do something like this if she has a favorite box to hang out in.

[mindy10]

Thats weird.  I can’t see the reponses.  It says three replies but I can’t see them

[angie-la]

haha I feel you! rorschach and nikka are not cuddly, and when I see pictures of people cuddling with their buns I’m like =’[

here’s a little trick I do: I give them blueberries or cranberries but lay down and make them hop up on me =P then they stay there for awhile hoping for more mwahahah

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Persistence and time-I wish I`d taken some video of Rupert when he first came home-what a scardey cat! But now-you`d never know, he`s the adorable big rabbit who comes for treats no matter. Use treats to make cuddling pleasant-you become a signal that nice things will happen and over time your bunny will settle. The more exposure to you the better, so moving her into a central location like a family room or kitchen is best-being too far away won`t hurt but it won`t help either. So if you can bring her into the busier rooms that`s best.

[LittlePuffyTail]

My buns love attention and snuggles but on their own terms.  They love when I lay on the floor and give snuggles at their level. They won’t sit on my lap to snuggle and I can pick them up but only as needed. I love picking up Stormy but if I hold him too long he bites my neck and Bindi will try to jump into thin air when he gets annoyed. It’s an instinct thing with bunnies, they don’t want to be restrained. As a prey animal, it’s very unnatural for them to enjoy that.

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