BigOlStink
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I joined this forum just to get some information on my rabbit Stinky. Her behaviour has always been kinda unusual for a rabbit. Well, unusual compared to many posts I see on here.
Stinky is a lionhead I got from a pet shop a year ago in May. She is literally the light of my life, the stink to my bomb, and the reason I get up to go to work in the morning. Just so I can come home and shower her in treats and gifts and my unconditional love.
Unfortunately, I think Stinky doesn't and never has reciprocated those feelings. Stinky does not like to be touched. I don't mean being picked up touched, because many rabbits don't like that and it's understandable the Stink doesn't, but Stinky doesn't even like getting head pets. Sometimes she lowers her head and I get to get a couple of little strokes in, but she jerks away and growls really loud. She likes to be alone more than with people. When I'm sitting down in my chair, sometimes Stinky will come out and lay next to my bed and give me the Stink eye for about an hour or so watching me. She never gives me cuddles or licks or even binkies. The only time she has ever come up to me on my own is when I enter the room after a long day to investigate who's entering her territory, or when she wants a dried natural banana treat. That's the only time she'll put her little paws on me and give me attention, then she'll take the banana and run off like she doesn't trust me.
Stinky rarely comes up to me or seems interested in me unless I'm down on the ground scooping her poop out of the litter box. I understand Stinky Stink doesn't need constant badgering and touching, but even when I'm sitting in the floor near her, she runs off like she's not interested or sits in a distance eyeballing me. She's always done this even as a little bunny. I've never done anything bad to Stinky. In fact, I've spoiled the poop rat more than any other animal I've own.
Recently, I went to college to get my degree after a bad mental breakdown and I missed my rabbit so much. I came home after two weeks and Stinky acts like she doesn't even know me. What once went from coming out to see who entered her territory is her now hiding in her tunnel, and when I go to pet her, she lunges at me and growls. In fact, she growls a lot more than she used to. My family, I know, has watched over her in the same way I have and has spoiled her like crazy, but I have no idea why Stinky got meaner and doesn't know who I am.
Stink is spayed, by the way. They said that rabbits calm down after they're neutered, but Stinky just got meaner.
Maybe Stinky is just like that and is an animal that doesn't want cuddles or love. I understand that. But admittedly, it hurts seeing rabbit owners talk about how their stinkies love them and shower them with affection or love while my Stink kicks her poop in my face and lunges at me when I give her a hay ball to snack on.
Side note, are rabbits supposed to be obsessed with poop? Stinky is extremely obsessed with her litter box and that is her number one territory. She regularly bunny flops down besides it and naps besides her poop. When I get down to scoop, she comes up and butts me with her stink nose to get me to leave, and then if she gets fed up enough, she jumps in the ******* herself, pushes the litter out of the way to make herself a hole in the middle, and starts pooping in front of me to assert dominance. If I try to get her to leave, she'll jump towards me and kick poop at me. Her litter box is her favourite thing in the entire world and that is the only time I've ever seen the Stink binky. When the Stink is released in the morning, she hops out of her cage and jumps in the litter box to poop and shakes her little head and ears, her way of binkying or showing that shes happy. Just wondering. I've got videos of her defending her litter box.
Stinky is a lionhead I got from a pet shop a year ago in May. She is literally the light of my life, the stink to my bomb, and the reason I get up to go to work in the morning. Just so I can come home and shower her in treats and gifts and my unconditional love.
Unfortunately, I think Stinky doesn't and never has reciprocated those feelings. Stinky does not like to be touched. I don't mean being picked up touched, because many rabbits don't like that and it's understandable the Stink doesn't, but Stinky doesn't even like getting head pets. Sometimes she lowers her head and I get to get a couple of little strokes in, but she jerks away and growls really loud. She likes to be alone more than with people. When I'm sitting down in my chair, sometimes Stinky will come out and lay next to my bed and give me the Stink eye for about an hour or so watching me. She never gives me cuddles or licks or even binkies. The only time she has ever come up to me on my own is when I enter the room after a long day to investigate who's entering her territory, or when she wants a dried natural banana treat. That's the only time she'll put her little paws on me and give me attention, then she'll take the banana and run off like she doesn't trust me.
Stinky rarely comes up to me or seems interested in me unless I'm down on the ground scooping her poop out of the litter box. I understand Stinky Stink doesn't need constant badgering and touching, but even when I'm sitting in the floor near her, she runs off like she's not interested or sits in a distance eyeballing me. She's always done this even as a little bunny. I've never done anything bad to Stinky. In fact, I've spoiled the poop rat more than any other animal I've own.
Recently, I went to college to get my degree after a bad mental breakdown and I missed my rabbit so much. I came home after two weeks and Stinky acts like she doesn't even know me. What once went from coming out to see who entered her territory is her now hiding in her tunnel, and when I go to pet her, she lunges at me and growls. In fact, she growls a lot more than she used to. My family, I know, has watched over her in the same way I have and has spoiled her like crazy, but I have no idea why Stinky got meaner and doesn't know who I am.
Stink is spayed, by the way. They said that rabbits calm down after they're neutered, but Stinky just got meaner.
Maybe Stinky is just like that and is an animal that doesn't want cuddles or love. I understand that. But admittedly, it hurts seeing rabbit owners talk about how their stinkies love them and shower them with affection or love while my Stink kicks her poop in my face and lunges at me when I give her a hay ball to snack on.
Side note, are rabbits supposed to be obsessed with poop? Stinky is extremely obsessed with her litter box and that is her number one territory. She regularly bunny flops down besides it and naps besides her poop. When I get down to scoop, she comes up and butts me with her stink nose to get me to leave, and then if she gets fed up enough, she jumps in the ******* herself, pushes the litter out of the way to make herself a hole in the middle, and starts pooping in front of me to assert dominance. If I try to get her to leave, she'll jump towards me and kick poop at me. Her litter box is her favourite thing in the entire world and that is the only time I've ever seen the Stink binky. When the Stink is released in the morning, she hops out of her cage and jumps in the litter box to poop and shakes her little head and ears, her way of binkying or showing that shes happy. Just wondering. I've got videos of her defending her litter box.
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