toyabrooke
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Hi Everyone,
Well I haven't got any photos yet, but on Tuesday I will be getting a chocolate brown Netherland Dwarf that is 8 weeks old. Some of you may know that our bunny Napoleon who we have had almost 2 months has a bit of a nasty streak. He will be nursed and lick and cuddle as long as it is on HIS terms, and when you are doing something in his area he likes, he will charge at you and bite and attack without warning. He has good and bad days, but my mum was so upset that she had gotten me a pet that 'domestically abused' me as she put it, so she has gone and bought a new one to 'keep him company' and picks him up Tuesday.
When we get the new bunny (who we have named Horatio because the enemy that defeated Napoleon was called Horatio Nelson), he will come and live with us in our apartment in a small cage and then in a week or two when mum mum has built a new cage for both of them, Poe will come and they can be bonded. We have introduced him to our other bunny Dudley while Poe has been staying with my mum to try and be trained, and they sniff at each other through the cage and seem to really like each other. When they are both out, there has been no fights or anything close to that, they mostly just do their own thing and ignore each other. Because Poe was only separated from his mum at 4 months, he may want some company too.
With two bunnies, my mum said one can be the cuddler that will sit on my lap for hours, and the other can be the eccentric energetic one that loves nothing more than to do laps around our feet and apartment. We hope this will work out like that too
The woman we are getting her from assures us he is very okay with being handled as she is studying Vet Science and he gets taken to her classes every day and passed around the class and handled constantly.
Training with Poe has been going okay, but I am the one that mostly needs a break for him and his aggression (although I did almost bring him home with me today until mum spilled the beans about the new bunny...). He definitely remembered me and I got a lovely tooth grind when I nursed him. He is defensive of the dining room table... so his territorial behaviour hasn't got much better/we don't think it ever will. He still refuses to be toilet trained, but Horatio (Ray for short) is already being started with Puppy Pads and I gather because he is young he will take to it fast.
So that is where we are at now. I will be getting the smallest bunny I have ever seen in a few days and I feel so un prepared even though Poe had been here for months before he left to be trained with mum a few days ago.
I have a collapsable dog kenel that I used with Poe and then we put out a bit of X-Pen type stuff just big enough for a big littler box and a bit of running room - Is that too big for a 8 week old bunny? Should I just have him in the dog crate? Also when should I start trying any veggies with him? Wait about a month or so? He will get the plain pellets I changed Poe over too, oats and hay as his normal diet and then bamboo as treats and grass every now and then. How should I introduce us to him? Just put him in his little crate and leave it open and sit on the ground and wait for him to come out? Can I still nurse him if he doesn't mind it? If he is here for a few weeks before Poe comes back, will Poe then see it isn't just his territory and stop pooping EVERYWHERE and stop being as aggressive? I know it's a long shot... but it might help him see he has to share his space?
I will probably have a billion more questions about this tiny little thing... so everyone stay tuned My mum is building a 3 level cage for each of them (god knows how it's going to fit in our tiny study) with two 'draw bridges' that can go down an connect them up from across the room so that is how we will slowly introduce them. But once again, Poe seems fine around animals and other rabbits. We have been introducing him to our cats and dogs at my mums house to see if socialisation was his main problem for being so territorial and aggressive (he hasn't been around any other animals apart from his mum), and he basically just ignores them.
Stay tuned for photos and heaps more questions!
T
Well I haven't got any photos yet, but on Tuesday I will be getting a chocolate brown Netherland Dwarf that is 8 weeks old. Some of you may know that our bunny Napoleon who we have had almost 2 months has a bit of a nasty streak. He will be nursed and lick and cuddle as long as it is on HIS terms, and when you are doing something in his area he likes, he will charge at you and bite and attack without warning. He has good and bad days, but my mum was so upset that she had gotten me a pet that 'domestically abused' me as she put it, so she has gone and bought a new one to 'keep him company' and picks him up Tuesday.
When we get the new bunny (who we have named Horatio because the enemy that defeated Napoleon was called Horatio Nelson), he will come and live with us in our apartment in a small cage and then in a week or two when mum mum has built a new cage for both of them, Poe will come and they can be bonded. We have introduced him to our other bunny Dudley while Poe has been staying with my mum to try and be trained, and they sniff at each other through the cage and seem to really like each other. When they are both out, there has been no fights or anything close to that, they mostly just do their own thing and ignore each other. Because Poe was only separated from his mum at 4 months, he may want some company too.
With two bunnies, my mum said one can be the cuddler that will sit on my lap for hours, and the other can be the eccentric energetic one that loves nothing more than to do laps around our feet and apartment. We hope this will work out like that too
The woman we are getting her from assures us he is very okay with being handled as she is studying Vet Science and he gets taken to her classes every day and passed around the class and handled constantly. Training with Poe has been going okay, but I am the one that mostly needs a break for him and his aggression (although I did almost bring him home with me today until mum spilled the beans about the new bunny...). He definitely remembered me and I got a lovely tooth grind when I nursed him. He is defensive of the dining room table... so his territorial behaviour hasn't got much better/we don't think it ever will. He still refuses to be toilet trained, but Horatio (Ray for short) is already being started with Puppy Pads and I gather because he is young he will take to it fast.
So that is where we are at now. I will be getting the smallest bunny I have ever seen in a few days and I feel so un prepared even though Poe had been here for months before he left to be trained with mum a few days ago.
I have a collapsable dog kenel that I used with Poe and then we put out a bit of X-Pen type stuff just big enough for a big littler box and a bit of running room - Is that too big for a 8 week old bunny? Should I just have him in the dog crate? Also when should I start trying any veggies with him? Wait about a month or so? He will get the plain pellets I changed Poe over too, oats and hay as his normal diet and then bamboo as treats and grass every now and then. How should I introduce us to him? Just put him in his little crate and leave it open and sit on the ground and wait for him to come out? Can I still nurse him if he doesn't mind it? If he is here for a few weeks before Poe comes back, will Poe then see it isn't just his territory and stop pooping EVERYWHERE and stop being as aggressive? I know it's a long shot... but it might help him see he has to share his space?
I will probably have a billion more questions about this tiny little thing... so everyone stay tuned
My mum is building a 3 level cage for each of them (god knows how it's going to fit in our tiny study) with two 'draw bridges' that can go down an connect them up from across the room so that is how we will slowly introduce them. But once again, Poe seems fine around animals and other rabbits. We have been introducing him to our cats and dogs at my mums house to see if socialisation was his main problem for being so territorial and aggressive (he hasn't been around any other animals apart from his mum), and he basically just ignores them. Stay tuned for photos and heaps more questions!
T
