Rocky is a naughty little boy!

[Kizza]

I am having a little problem with my little boy. He is a naughty little attention seeking boy dwarf lop bunny. He loves loves loves cuddles! and when he doesn't get them, he has a tantrum.

He runs around my feet like crazy, poops everywhere and he will spray me. He wil lalso grunt and stop all over the place and scratch my legs.

Not to toot my own horn, but I believe he may be infatuated with me and this is his way of getting my attention, or as my mum would say, he is trying to attract me. I can tell you, he is going the wrong way about it as I don't appreciate getting bunny pee on my pants, shoes and jumper!

He is a year old in October, and he isn't neutered. I have been a little scared to have it done as he hates the vet with a passion and i am just worried something will go wrong. But seriously, it has to stop!

Will having him neutered stop this behavior? In particular, the spraying as I am over washing all of my clothes every day. Or is this something he now has to unlearn? If it is now a habit, is there any way I can teach him to not do it?

Sorry for the long reading and thank you

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Definitely overdue for neutering. It will significantly drop his hormone driven courting behavior. The spraying was always the worst.

 

[funnybunnymummy]

Some rabbits will still spray after being neutered (this is why it's recommended to get them neutered as young as safely possible), but most stop the behaviour after the hormones wear off. Neutering is definitely a simpler operation than spaying, so there's much less that can go wrong. So long as he's a healthy weight, it should go off without a hitch. Also, boys are less expensive to neuter than girls are to spay.

Hope that helps!

Rue

 

[sgbinky]

I have not heard about this before.... Would young rabbits show similar behaviour usually associated with old rabbits?

 

[Kizza]

Before I got rocky I didn't know anything about rabbits so i didn't know that they did this either. It was funny at first but the humor has worn off.

I also didn't know that you could neuter rabbits until i came on here for the first time. I will take him in on my next day off and hopefully his hormones will settle down and he will be a good boy again.

I want to find a set of scales to weight him myself to keep an eye on his weight because when he was young he wasnt well and his weight wasnt very stable.

I will get him checked out before he goes in