*drum roll please*
Mar. 21st, 2007 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiAnd the winner of "Who Wants To Date My Bunny" is.....
FRISCO!
The hyperactive dutch boy from last week. Once I figured out how to head him off when he started to really get hyper, Pepper decided that he does have potential. He sprays like a lawn sprinkler and poops like a fuzzy little Pez dispenser, and he bit the hell out of my glove at one point. However, there were moments of actual side-by side snuggling (if not actual grooming yet) and he seems to be getting that he needs to be slow when he approaches her. She let him chin her while she was giving herself a wash and he likes to nuzzle his head under hers.
It's going to take some time - there is still quite a lot of squabbling, and we all agreed that separate carriers coming home was a good idea. I'm pretty sure I woudln't want to be stuffed in a small box with him just yet! But with time and patience I think they can work things out.
(She and Ryo just didn't hit it off - he's been in isolation until recently so he isn't too well socialized, and he's only a week after his neuter, so he was too aggressive with her)
He has his own cage in the far corner of the kitchen, where she can see and smell him, but there is a pen around the cage so they can't get to each other through the bars. He can get his own eveningplaytime in the pen (where I can work on the biting issue as well as getting him tired out in advance) before bonding sessions in the hallway. And she still has almost all her own space to get away from him in so she will hopefully feel less threatened.
It's gong to be an interesting couple of weeks around here. Wish us all luck!
FRISCO!
The hyperactive dutch boy from last week. Once I figured out how to head him off when he started to really get hyper, Pepper decided that he does have potential. He sprays like a lawn sprinkler and poops like a fuzzy little Pez dispenser, and he bit the hell out of my glove at one point. However, there were moments of actual side-by side snuggling (if not actual grooming yet) and he seems to be getting that he needs to be slow when he approaches her. She let him chin her while she was giving herself a wash and he likes to nuzzle his head under hers.
It's going to take some time - there is still quite a lot of squabbling, and we all agreed that separate carriers coming home was a good idea. I'm pretty sure I woudln't want to be stuffed in a small box with him just yet! But with time and patience I think they can work things out.
(She and Ryo just didn't hit it off - he's been in isolation until recently so he isn't too well socialized, and he's only a week after his neuter, so he was too aggressive with her)
He has his own cage in the far corner of the kitchen, where she can see and smell him, but there is a pen around the cage so they can't get to each other through the bars. He can get his own eveningplaytime in the pen (where I can work on the biting issue as well as getting him tired out in advance) before bonding sessions in the hallway. And she still has almost all her own space to get away from him in so she will hopefully feel less threatened.
It's gong to be an interesting couple of weeks around here. Wish us all luck!
