Thank you all so so much! This has been very helpful for me. I'm planning to keep her another two weeks to see how she feels after a month of being here. My older sister explained to me that her rabbit was actually very well behaved because she got him at about three weeks old and so he was raised to sleep in a cage at night and be handled. I know many of you suggest I don't get a baby, but hey, I've lived with a dog who would constantly pee on the floor and now that he's 9 (coming 10), he even barfs on the carpet because he still eats things he shouldn't and I will clean it up myself too. I've had experience raising quite a few animals and I am very very willing to deal with raising a baby. I can go ask my sister for advice with dealing with a rabbit going through the teenage stage since she obviously had to go through that.
I am very very grateful for all your guys' help. Thank you! This is helping me lots with taking care of Blossom and if I decide she should go back, I'll be prepared for if I get a new one that will be used to this kind of housing.
So if you bunny it’s the aggressive bunny how would you train it. Would you feel sad if it took years training it to accept your touch and the bunny don’t turn out cuddly.
Myself have only been lucky getting really cuddly bunnies. But the work I have put down on some of them have been a lot. Even 2 years and I’m still working with one of my bunnies and trying to build up a better bond with him.
You can’t handle an adult bunny after a few weeks, would you be able to handle a kit that can take years. The easy bunnies to train was the bunnies I adopted as adults. All bunnies that have been from 8 weeks to 4 months have been a lot of work put down.
Still your cage it’s small and you need another housing. Even my bunnies will start chewing the bars after a few days in the cage. I think Odin can handle one month then he get restless and want to stretch his legs, even though he can binky and play in the cage.
I will ask you a real question, would you put a cat to spend hours in a cage where it can’t properly move?
Because that’s what you are doing towards your bunny. They can’t express themself as cats and dogs do. Some are really quiet then you have others that will truly show when they are unhappy and express themself. Like my grunting queen that will grunt and thump when she’s unhappy. That I can say it’s noisy, would your siblings like a drumming bunny
The personality of bunnies are so big and different. All bunny owners that really care for their bunnies will know how their personalities are and how they will react.
For example my own bunnies:
Odin: a clown that extremely kind and will never do loud sounds or bite anyone. But he’s not cuddle and a hard time being still. It becomes a real battle when it’s time to trim his nails.
Toste: Adventures but a scaredy-cat that easily get triggered to bite but love cuddles and can spend hours up in my arms. He will start making sounds when he’s not let out in the morning.
Liljs: She makes sounds everyday, bossy but cuddly. Just watch out for her grumpy days otherwise it will feel like you slammed a door on yourself when she bites.
As you can see Toste personality that love cuddly but easily get triggered to bite, they are two extreme and need me as an owner to read his signals. The first year with him I had not idea he was a bunny that love cuddles and snuggle up next to me. I would say he was a rabbit from hell out to get me.
Biting, chewing bars, throwing the water and food bowl, tipping the litter box and just attacking me whenever he got chance. I was scared of handling him and I’m an adult. I got him when he was 4 months and was neutered. So not an adult, I think the child family thought neutering would change his aggressive behavior. His first owner was 11 years old so just 2 years younger than you and this was not their first bunny. Here you can see a kit can turn out really different than what you expect it to be.
So my bunny Toste was far worse than your Blossom. Because his personality didn’t fit as a kids pet.
You can get an hamster or a gerbil. I would recommend rats but they need more space and the same go for chinchillas and hedgehogs which you don’t have space for. So a bunny will certainly won’t have the space.
I know how you feel wanting to own a pet, I had to wait until I was 19 to get my second pet again.
I can just see how small it can be in your room, myself have shared room with my little brother as a kid. But my room only fitted the bed and one tv, we had to have shelves to place all the toys to be placed on.
I have even lived with my cousins where they lived 8 people in a house with just a kitchen, bathroom, and one bedroom. My family spent a month with them so we where 12 people in a small space. Me, my brother and the youngest cousins shared the double bed sleeping like stacked sardines while the rest slept on the floor spread out in the house.
So I can perfectly know that small space can make it hard to make a bunny live good if it’s not free roaming. So it’s better to get a small real cage pet like hamsters or gerbil. Often hamster cages today should be around the normal pet shop cage size for bunnies, if you want to give them a proper housing for a real cage pet. This will you give you a concept of cage size. Look up hamster owners on youtube like ErinsAnimals, Victoria Raechel, Sniff the hamster and many more. You can see how big cages they have for their hamsters. And that just hamsters that are many sizes smaller than bunnies
