criddopher
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hello, I just bought a baby female lionhead bunny. shes a little over 2 months old. I've had her for 3 days. I'm going to give you all the rundown as I want to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong.
I Got her a nice cage, living world habitat standard size. I never lock her in there though unless I leave the house, I work from home so that is not often. I have 4 cats (2 bengals and 2 siamese) that seem to be cool enough with the rabbit. They seem more affraid of the rabbit than she is of them but I dont want to risk it leaving the bunny out with me not home. (the poor thing grabs onto the door and shakes it when I do lock her in its heartbreaking)
I have a fence that I use to either her block her off from leaving my office when im working or I move her to the living room where she can run around the couch or the bedroom when I sleep. In any case she always has at least around 16sqft to run around in and a full room most of the day.
I've gotten her small pet select 2nd cutting timothy hay that I keep the wall thing stacked with always, and I blended sherwood baby rabbit food with kaytee forti diet for juvenile rabbits. When shes older I planned to switch to small pet select or sherwoon adult formula, what age should I do that? I leave pellets in her bowl at all times, shes yet to finish the bit I put in there yesterday but she is eating them and the hay. I have two water bottles hanging out for her one in the cage one on the fence.
I got feline pine litter which I've read can be bad? I'll buy something not pine when these pellets run out.
My main question is, should I not be picking her up and moving her from place to place throughout the day? I read a guide saying I shouldnt ever try to pick the rabbit up until shes coming up to me on her own. She does hop up on my lap when im on the couch. She digs at my shirt, and sits for a while while I pet her. She DOES run away from me when I go to pick her up though. Is it that serious? the guide made it sound like I'm going to traumatize the rabbit.
Thats the story. Shes a ton of fun I'm really happy I impulse bought her haha. ( I was driving down the road to meet a friend, saw a sign that said lionhead bunnies for sale, I googled them because I had no idea what that was, thought they were super cute, found out there was a rabbitry around the corner from my house and went and got one)
I Got her a nice cage, living world habitat standard size. I never lock her in there though unless I leave the house, I work from home so that is not often. I have 4 cats (2 bengals and 2 siamese) that seem to be cool enough with the rabbit. They seem more affraid of the rabbit than she is of them but I dont want to risk it leaving the bunny out with me not home. (the poor thing grabs onto the door and shakes it when I do lock her in its heartbreaking)
I have a fence that I use to either her block her off from leaving my office when im working or I move her to the living room where she can run around the couch or the bedroom when I sleep. In any case she always has at least around 16sqft to run around in and a full room most of the day.
I've gotten her small pet select 2nd cutting timothy hay that I keep the wall thing stacked with always, and I blended sherwood baby rabbit food with kaytee forti diet for juvenile rabbits. When shes older I planned to switch to small pet select or sherwoon adult formula, what age should I do that? I leave pellets in her bowl at all times, shes yet to finish the bit I put in there yesterday but she is eating them and the hay. I have two water bottles hanging out for her one in the cage one on the fence.
I got feline pine litter which I've read can be bad? I'll buy something not pine when these pellets run out.
My main question is, should I not be picking her up and moving her from place to place throughout the day? I read a guide saying I shouldnt ever try to pick the rabbit up until shes coming up to me on her own. She does hop up on my lap when im on the couch. She digs at my shirt, and sits for a while while I pet her. She DOES run away from me when I go to pick her up though. Is it that serious? the guide made it sound like I'm going to traumatize the rabbit.
Thats the story. Shes a ton of fun I'm really happy I impulse bought her haha. ( I was driving down the road to meet a friend, saw a sign that said lionhead bunnies for sale, I googled them because I had no idea what that was, thought they were super cute, found out there was a rabbitry around the corner from my house and went and got one)
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