Trixie was somewhat neglected by my sister, who hadn't done any research on rabbits when she brought home a baby bunny and popped it into the cage with the grown rabbit she already had -- she was astonished when Boo-Boo tried to kill little Mookie and wound up having to keep her in a bitsy separate cage. When my sister moved back in after breaking up with that boyfriend, they separated custody of the rabbits, and she brought Mookie -- and left her when she moved in with her next guy a few months later. I wound up taking over her care, doing some bloody research, and getting her spayed, and Mom renamed her Trixie Belle. Over the course of the two years she's been in our house, she's gotten much friendlier, but she's still a very wary bunny. (Though inquisitive, loves being petted, and has learned to tolerate having me hold her.)
Marvin OTOH I got from the local rabbit sanctuary, where he'd apparently been very very popular with the local volunteers and well-handled. He comes right up to people, loves being petted, but between the number of times I was picking him up to put him in a small space with a nervous nippy Trixie and then the five days I spent putting drops in his eyes three times a day after he scratched a cornea... He does not like being picked up and held, which saddens me since I was told that he used to be really placid about it -- his name at the sanctuary was Trance. Still, he and Trixie bonded quickly and she's learned from his example -- now I walk into the living room and both bunnies charge my ankles for petting.
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Date: 2008-05-07 09:26 pm (UTC)Marvin OTOH I got from the local rabbit sanctuary, where he'd apparently been very very popular with the local volunteers and well-handled. He comes right up to people, loves being petted, but between the number of times I was picking him up to put him in a small space with a nervous nippy Trixie and then the five days I spent putting drops in his eyes three times a day after he scratched a cornea... He does not like being picked up and held, which saddens me since I was told that he used to be really placid about it -- his name at the sanctuary was Trance. Still, he and Trixie bonded quickly and she's learned from his example -- now I walk into the living room and both bunnies charge my ankles for petting.