Another update!
I think I'm overdue for an update. :P The bunnies are still doing well. Cinnamon will now let me pet her quite often, although Brinco is still pretty aloof unless he's sprawled out and relaxed.Cinnamon went through her fall shedding about a month or so ago. I had read about it, but I didn't expect such a scruffy-looking rabbit! She looked like a predator had gotten ahold of her with all the thin patches. She still has some clumps of hair shedding off her butt, but for the most part her coat is grown back out. Poor Cinnamon. And of course she hates having me remove the loose hair. She won't let me brush or comb her, so the best I can do is sneak up on her ninja-style and pull out clumps of fur.
In the bad news department, someone decided to chew up a corner of one of the shelves. When I covered the shelf with a grass mat, Brinco for some reason thought grass mat = litterbox and peed on it. There have also been a couple of other accidents in the last couple of days. We don't know which bunny is responsible, but I'm suspecting the boy bunny. Call it a hunch.
Speaking of naughty Brinco behavior, I caught him cornering Cinnamon and humping her head. I totally did not need to see that. He ran off when I yelled. I don't think he knows he's fixed. But I read in my bunny book that mounting backwards = bad because the top bunny can very easily get bobbitized by the bottom one. And knowing Cinnamon's tendency to communicate with her teeth, I figured it was a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe I need to get Brinco a stuffed animal or something. I've taken to calling him Humpy McHumperson because I'm evil like that.
3 Comments:
rabbits mount to show dominance...the litterbox problems you're having are also usually associated with dominance
it sounds like they're having bonding issues...take them for a car ride with you, or put them in your bathtub (a neutral place, free of smells) and monitor their behaviour. sometimes one bunny just has to exhert dominant behaviour from time to time to remind him/herself, "i'm top bunny around here" this may be recurrant behaviour or it may be a one time thing.
if you need more help, call the house rabbit society where you purchased the rabbits for advice (or visit the website)
the way i wrote that sounds worse than it is...we have a trio of girls and about once every 2 months we take them on "errand day" and that sorts them out and their back to best friends by the time we get home
"they're", not "their"...oops
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