Hello all, I hope this is the right place to ask this.
I went out the other day to look at some baby bunnies. I originally went to look at one who I thought was beautiful (she is just gorgeous!), but then another caught my eye just by the way she was acting. She came up to me while the others didn't, was very pliant while I clumsily checked her gender (multiple times - it was my first time and very hard to tell them apart), and let me pet her right off and continued to do so despite the multiple times I had to pick her up and check her stuff. The others were more skittish (understandably) and struggled with the gender check. The pretty one was especially feisty, whereas I was looking for calm.
However, we already have a baby boy bunny my fiance got a few days ago. We were planning to get two males and get them both fixed as soon as they were able to be, and bond them young.
I wanted to get a boy because I have always heard (and have seen on most places online) that boys are much sweeter and affectionate, and girls are almost always more standoffish and likely to bite.
Also, all the articles I see online talk about puberty pretty much 180ing your bunnies, and to know a personality you have to get them as adults.
Does this mean I shouldn't put any stock into how her personality seems now? Do they pretty much always change personalities with the behaviors of puberty?
It's a situation where my heart is saying 'yes, please get her', but my mind is holding back and trying to look out for future me. (And yes, we'd still plan to get her fixed asap, but the only vet around only does it after 6 months old for either gender, and they're dwarfs so having to keep the separated from the males possible 3 month puberty is another possible issue. )
I went out the other day to look at some baby bunnies. I originally went to look at one who I thought was beautiful (she is just gorgeous!), but then another caught my eye just by the way she was acting. She came up to me while the others didn't, was very pliant while I clumsily checked her gender (multiple times - it was my first time and very hard to tell them apart), and let me pet her right off and continued to do so despite the multiple times I had to pick her up and check her stuff. The others were more skittish (understandably) and struggled with the gender check. The pretty one was especially feisty, whereas I was looking for calm.
However, we already have a baby boy bunny my fiance got a few days ago. We were planning to get two males and get them both fixed as soon as they were able to be, and bond them young.
I wanted to get a boy because I have always heard (and have seen on most places online) that boys are much sweeter and affectionate, and girls are almost always more standoffish and likely to bite.
Also, all the articles I see online talk about puberty pretty much 180ing your bunnies, and to know a personality you have to get them as adults.
Does this mean I shouldn't put any stock into how her personality seems now? Do they pretty much always change personalities with the behaviors of puberty?
It's a situation where my heart is saying 'yes, please get her', but my mind is holding back and trying to look out for future me. (And yes, we'd still plan to get her fixed asap, but the only vet around only does it after 6 months old for either gender, and they're dwarfs so having to keep the separated from the males possible 3 month puberty is another possible issue. )
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