As prey animals, they are very different from cats and/or dogs. Someone else mentioned "If you put two cats in a stressful situation, they start blaming each other for it"
While I have had house rabbits for more than 8 years, my previous bun was absolutely determined to be a single girl. She attacked every other rabbit she ever met - we figure that since she was abandoned she had never been socialized and didn't know that she was a rabbit! When other buns approached her, she didn't know how to respond, so they would venture closer and then she would totally freak out. She seemed to feel the same way about small yappy dogs, and actually attacked my neighbor's chihuahua once (I kind of agreed with her on that one). She was OK with larger dogs, and while she didn't really "like" people, she liked food, and people often came with food so she tolerated them. eventually she would sleep under my bed every night until her final illness.
So while I'm good with general knowledge and body language, this whole bonding thing is new to me.
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Date: 2012-08-07 09:51 pm (UTC)Someone else mentioned "If you put two cats in a stressful situation, they start blaming each other for it"
While I have had house rabbits for more than 8 years, my previous bun was absolutely determined to be a single girl. She attacked every other rabbit she ever met - we figure that since she was abandoned she had never been socialized and didn't know that she was a rabbit! When other buns approached her, she didn't know how to respond, so they would venture closer and then she would totally freak out. She seemed to feel the same way about small yappy dogs, and actually attacked my neighbor's chihuahua once (I kind of agreed with her on that one). She was OK with larger dogs, and while she didn't really "like" people, she liked food, and people often came with food so she tolerated them. eventually she would sleep under my bed every night until her final illness.
So while I'm good with general knowledge and body language, this whole bonding thing is new to me.