hi everyone,
i am hoping someone can help me make sense of our bunny's change in behaviour and give me some ideas to help stop it.
My daughter has a 9 month old male mini lop,that we have had since 10 weeks. He is a gorgeous boy, who seems v happy, is pretty cuddly and lives inside with us all the time. He has recently started doing a couple of things that are driving us mad though:
1) he has always been pretty well toilet trained, leaving pellets here and there around the house but nothing terrible - now he is leaving MILLIONS of pellets EVERYWHERE, and as he is an inside bunny you can imagine how that is driving me crazy. I am constantly walking behind him picking up pellets. I dont want to ban him to only his outside cage - but I am not far off doing that.
2) As soon as any one walks into the room and stands still - he will bite your feet/ toes. We are enjoying his apparent increase in friendliness, if this is what it is - but the biting?
i have guessed that he may be hitting puberty, and am wondering if getting him operated on will help - though to be honest I had hoped not to have to do that.
If it will help though - definitely will do it.
Is there anything else we can be doing- the pooing especially is getting ridiculous- we can no longer walk 2 steps without stepping on one, and often lately they are soft and squishy too!
Please , any help for this first time rabbit owner will be a big help.
Thanks
i am hoping someone can help me make sense of our bunny's change in behaviour and give me some ideas to help stop it.
My daughter has a 9 month old male mini lop,that we have had since 10 weeks. He is a gorgeous boy, who seems v happy, is pretty cuddly and lives inside with us all the time. He has recently started doing a couple of things that are driving us mad though:
1) he has always been pretty well toilet trained, leaving pellets here and there around the house but nothing terrible - now he is leaving MILLIONS of pellets EVERYWHERE, and as he is an inside bunny you can imagine how that is driving me crazy. I am constantly walking behind him picking up pellets. I dont want to ban him to only his outside cage - but I am not far off doing that.
2) As soon as any one walks into the room and stands still - he will bite your feet/ toes. We are enjoying his apparent increase in friendliness, if this is what it is - but the biting?
i have guessed that he may be hitting puberty, and am wondering if getting him operated on will help - though to be honest I had hoped not to have to do that.
If it will help though - definitely will do it.
Is there anything else we can be doing- the pooing especially is getting ridiculous- we can no longer walk 2 steps without stepping on one, and often lately they are soft and squishy too!
Please , any help for this first time rabbit owner will be a big help.
Thanks
