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OMG, she is adorable! I am no expert on age but roughly 3 months looks about right to me. It's difficult to pinpoint the exact age of adopted/rescued animals, rabbits included.

Two weeks ago, we adopted a female, spayed bun as a companion for our little Kimchi, who was neutered a couple of months ago now. Some of you may recall the story of how we became rabbit owners to begin with. We previously had no pets, save for an aquarium. While out at a brunch with some...

We have our rabbits' exercise pen - their permanent "cage" - right in our living room. It is positioned in such a way that they have really good sight lines to see all around - they can see the hallway where the stairs come up from the door downstairs, as well as down the hallway and into the...

Norm - hats off to you and Rupert! I think what you are doing is absolutely amazing, very very good of you to do this. My wife has worked in hospitals and has told me how people, especially but not only children, really benefit from visits with animals. I have never heard of rabbits as...

I agree, try to start the vacuum up away from them. Another trick with this or any new thing that makes noise, is to try to put yourself in between the vacuum or noisy thing, and the bun/buns. This way they feel like you are protecting them from "it", or that is the sense I have. Last night...

Super cute bun! Love the colors!

This is the main reason why we decided not to try to walk ours outdoors in public places. We are very fortunate that our current apartment has a private, second-floor patio where we can and do allow him to run around outdoors - he can experience the sun, wind and great outdoors, hopefully...

Sorry, this thread made me chuckle big time! Good to know that it happens ... we are getting ready to search for a bond mate for our rabbit and I am trying to learn all that I can on the subject.

That is a great anecdote and I love your picture of Lahi in front of the fireplace! I love the comic of the bunny stretching into the unknown room - I've totally seen that! That is interesting that they enjoy staring at one another. We've seen that with Kimchi too. He also "watches TV" with...

Speaking from my own experience, when I experience a big adrenal rush, my heart rate and breathing both increase in pace. I'm sure that a rabbit who is familiar with his or her human would pick up on that and could react to it. I know when our rabbit suddenly became ill with a respiratory...

Thanks for the replies! Thanks Liung in particular for the thoughtful and lengthy responses. I really enjoyed reading through them. Are you an animal psychologist or researcher by trade? Firstly let me say that Kimchi is really almost back to his usual self. I'd say he is about 95% of the way...

I am happy to report, Kimchi is definitely pretty much back to his old self. Big binkies, lots of dashing about, and doing his laps/circuits - around the pen when he's in there, around the living room, and now even out on the patio, around the patio, and around the living room. He wore himself...

I am a rabbit novice so this is just an off-the-cuff comment. I would think that this would be a supremely bad idea, from all things I have read re: bonding. He will have his hormones going strong and I doubt that he would respond to the fact that the doe is spayed, and all that you would...

Thanks guys - we have hope that he will fully rebound to his old self over time. I will update this thread periodically.

We had Kimchi neutered last Tuesday, which will be one week ago as of tomorrow. He's really bounced back well - from the procedure and anesthesia. However, we feel that he may be "pissed off" at us. I know that is probably anthropomorphize-ing and/or projecting, but it seems like he is at...

Our bun loves to be petted on his head - from his nose up to between the ears - and his cheeks/jaw. Yeah we feel the grinding too Nancy, when we massage his jaw. As a longtime nocturnal teeth-grinder myself, I can sympathize!

Hello Oreo - I am a rabbit novice, so hopefully some of the forum regulars will lend their advice as well. Personally, I would take her to the vet for a checkup. My impression is that they can get respiratory illnesses fairly easily - ours did - and can deteriorate quickly. Not to alarm...

Hats off to you for rescuing a bunny in need! That is awesome! And I agree: that is an adorable rabbit. :) She is lucky to have found you, or you to have found her, I guess. Good stuff! We are on our first rabbit and are in love with him. He's a great pet. We're going to have him...

For what it's worth, our male rabbit does the "pushing" thing too! It is quite amusing to see ... we figured that he was just very creative and having fun. ;) We just filled up a small digging box with landscaping sand - he LOVES it! Clearly he was missing this in his life ... I will...

Hey Joe, you might want to consider a "best of both worlds" approach - keep your air freshener just outside of that room (in the hallway, or nearby?) so that when you or other people pass by the room, you'll smell the air freshener rather than the rabbit. That way the rabbit doesn't have to...