gentle giants
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One of my bonded group of sisters suddenly decided today she is having a litter. She is building her nest, of course, in the litterpan. She has been pulling tons of fur-but get this-she's pulling it from the other does! She has pulled some of her own too, but she keeps going and grabbing onto one or another of the other does and pulling fur, then carrying it back to the "nest". When I put their morning hay in, she immedialty starting moving the whole pile into the nestbox/litterpan.
Here's my question, though. Does a doe having a false pregnancy like this even feel labor pains? Because she will rush around making her nest, and then will all of a sudden stop and flop down in the nest and close her eyes and breathe really hard. Now, I know what you all are thinking-One of these four bunnies isn't a doe. But they are over a year old and have never been separated, and there has never been any litter/s before, and surely there would have been by now. Plus the fact thatI trance them on their backs once a month to do nails, surely I would have seen the boy parts before.
Here's my question, though. Does a doe having a false pregnancy like this even feel labor pains? Because she will rush around making her nest, and then will all of a sudden stop and flop down in the nest and close her eyes and breathe really hard. Now, I know what you all are thinking-One of these four bunnies isn't a doe. But they are over a year old and have never been separated, and there has never been any litter/s before, and surely there would have been by now. Plus the fact thatI trance them on their backs once a month to do nails, surely I would have seen the boy parts before.