bunny_lover907
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My bun is around 4 months I think. He bits when I touch his toys. If I put my hand in to touch him hes fine with that. Do you all have any advice?
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Runestonez
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We have a little biter here...
Our boy Oliver...bad bunnny!
He is a little older than your guy...biting can be a possession issue, a learned behavior too. If he tries to bite and it works and you retreat...he wins and will keep doing it.
What we started to do was not letOliver "own" anything...he will get better if/when you neuter him...but in the meantime...if we found something he was possessive of we would wipe his toys at the end of each day. He would come out in the morning and chin everything and we would continue to go in his house and touch his things! lol He got a bit upset with this...but we would pick something up...he would rush over and we would hold it until he got used to the idea that we were touching his "stuff"...eventually he realized that we weren't going to take anything. We also re-arranged his house every once in a while...it seemed he liked everything to be in a partcular place...so we would swap his litterbox from one side to the other...change his food bowls around...just so he couldn't get "used" to everything being static and in one place!
Whatever way you decide to deal with it...now is the time to break him of the habit! The older he gets the harder it will be! lol Hope some of this helps!
Danielle
Our boy Oliver...bad bunnny!
He is a little older than your guy...biting can be a possession issue, a learned behavior too. If he tries to bite and it works and you retreat...he wins and will keep doing it.
What we started to do was not letOliver "own" anything...he will get better if/when you neuter him...but in the meantime...if we found something he was possessive of we would wipe his toys at the end of each day. He would come out in the morning and chin everything and we would continue to go in his house and touch his things! lol He got a bit upset with this...but we would pick something up...he would rush over and we would hold it until he got used to the idea that we were touching his "stuff"...eventually he realized that we weren't going to take anything. We also re-arranged his house every once in a while...it seemed he liked everything to be in a partcular place...so we would swap his litterbox from one side to the other...change his food bowls around...just so he couldn't get "used" to everything being static and in one place!
Whatever way you decide to deal with it...now is the time to break him of the habit! The older he gets the harder it will be! lol
Hope some of this helps!Danielle
Richard0600
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Think of rabbits as OCD little animals =), back when i first got my rabbits we kept them in their cage and they grew extremely attached to their toys, everytime we touched it Latte (the dominant female) would growl or swipe at you. If you do manage to move one of her toys, a couple mins later she would run over and move it back to how it was.
Shortly after they were both spayed and litter trained, we let them out 24/7 and of course they soon forgot about their toys, now they don't even play with them anymore =(
Shortly after they were both spayed and litter trained, we let them out 24/7 and of course they soon forgot about their toys, now they don't even play with them anymore =(
