OneTwoThree wrote:
Rabbits are never mean, they are fearful. And many rabbits are territorial of their pens. Does she have hay in there?
I don't really agree with this. We had a mini rex named Shippou that we got from a breeder who was going to cull him when he was 9 weeks. He was never fearful and always curious, so it would not have been fear.
Gradually, over time, he started to get confident and he started to get mean. We kept him until the point where if you walked past his cage, he would literally throw himself against the cage to bite you. We couldn't let him out to run around because he would insist on biting, chasing you around and not let go. After taking him in to the vet, she agreed that his behaviour was off (Something that is afraid would not rather chase the source of the 'fear' when we gave him plenty of areas to hide while he was out. Even when you weren't in the pen, he would pace and bite the bars trying to get out. If you stepped too close, he would go ballistic. I never thought I would ever see a rabbit behave like that, it was just so weird) and she suspected that he might have brain tumors or something that was causing the excessive aggression. We ended up giving him back to the breeder, we were afraid to even walk past the cage thinking that he might wind up hurting himself.
While the vet suspected that there was another cause that aggression was not caused out of fear. It is possible to have one that is being mean and not afraid.
THAT BEING SAID, I do agree that this girl is not being aggressive, but she is afraid. She probably has never been worked with by a person and doesn't know what to think of it all, she must be on complete mental overload right now by all the changes.
As for this girl, she looks like a New Zealand to me.
Strays can definitely be worked with if you take it slow. We have one of the rabbits in our club, Autumn, who was a stray and she's just the sweetest thing now, you would never know where she came from. There are others who have been rescued from similar situations.
Just be sure to take it slow and I'm sure she'll come around eventually.