khaelbee
Well-Known Member
Some of you may have read my little introduction about max and sammy, max is a white dwarf male, and sammy is a mix breed medium size female... my boyfriend found sammy, so we got max as a buddy for her. sammy is (according to the pet shop) about a year old, and we got max at 2 months old. he's now about 2 1/2 months. we're slowly trying to introduce them, but max isn't fully grown yet, so i'm sketchy about putting them together full time at this point. we put max into sammy's hutch (bad idea, i know) so they could come nose to nose to see what happened. they didn't start fighting.... instead, sammy peed on max's face and then went into her little home. i took him inside and cleaned him up and figured it was just because rabbits are very territorial.
today, i took max out into the front yard where we had a little fenced off area set up, and kris put sammy in there with max. once again, they started sniffing eachother's rear ends and sammy peed on max's face. it appears as though she bit him a couple times, but all it did was leave slobber on him (she didn't bite hard at all) and she didn't try to hit him or anything. is this her just trying to show him that she's dominant?
also, for about the past 4 days, i've been having behavioral issues with max. when i first got him he was so kind and loving. he never kicked or scratched, i could flip him on his back and pet his belly, and he would just relax and enjoy it. about 4 days ago, i reached in to pick him up (as i always have) and he pounced at my hand and tried to bite me. it wasn't a hard bite, more like a warning. unless i'm reaching in his cage to pet his head or refill his food or water, he attacks my hand. normally he pounces and swings at me, but there were a couple times when he nipped (this makes it REALLY difficult to clean out his cage)... normally when he pounces i pull my hand back, but lately i've been trying a new technique... instead of pulling away, i keep my hand there and let him hit me, then i firmly tell him NO. it actually stopped him today.... but my hands still look like i got into a fight with Edward Scissorhands... is this just a phase or is my rabbit turning mean?
today, i took max out into the front yard where we had a little fenced off area set up, and kris put sammy in there with max. once again, they started sniffing eachother's rear ends and sammy peed on max's face. it appears as though she bit him a couple times, but all it did was leave slobber on him (she didn't bite hard at all) and she didn't try to hit him or anything. is this her just trying to show him that she's dominant?
also, for about the past 4 days, i've been having behavioral issues with max. when i first got him he was so kind and loving. he never kicked or scratched, i could flip him on his back and pet his belly, and he would just relax and enjoy it. about 4 days ago, i reached in to pick him up (as i always have) and he pounced at my hand and tried to bite me. it wasn't a hard bite, more like a warning. unless i'm reaching in his cage to pet his head or refill his food or water, he attacks my hand. normally he pounces and swings at me, but there were a couple times when he nipped (this makes it REALLY difficult to clean out his cage)... normally when he pounces i pull my hand back, but lately i've been trying a new technique... instead of pulling away, i keep my hand there and let him hit me, then i firmly tell him NO. it actually stopped him today.... but my hands still look like i got into a fight with Edward Scissorhands... is this just a phase or is my rabbit turning mean?