5 Ways to Deal With an Aggressive Rabbit

[@Baileywabbit]

Thank you for all these great tips. I recently adopted a female bunny from the animal shelter for my male bun. They are both fixed. My boy bun is perfect even before his neuter. He never showed an aggressive behaviors. He is very spoiled. My new adopted bun shows signs of aggression with lunging and growling. She does love to be petted. I have had her for a few days now. I will try some of your tips and see if it will her decompress and settle in so she'll trust me and know I am not scary. I just don't want her bad behavior to teach my boy bun bad behavior when its time to bond them.

[@MsVirginiaCreeper]

How are Ellie and Teddy getting along? I hope they’re starting to rebuild their bond 💕

[@kimberlykhan9477]

I have owned rabbits from very young and never have i experienced aggressive behaviour until now with my holland lop 1st time owning a holland. He literally lunges and grunts at you not all the time but it happens from time to time. I simply tried turning him around and he didn't like that and he grunt and bit me not bad though thank god. He very sometime ish. I just hope for long healthy life to care for him and not have to let anyone else care for him.

[@guitarman4242]

Always good and thoughtful tips. I never walk away from your videos without learning a thing or two. Well done as always Amy. Hoping your bunnies are friends again. Keep us posted

[@jam1369]

Thank you! So helpful.

[@AKINAacacia]

Hello from Atlantic Canada! Always look forward to your videos :)

[@Abby-wn7dd]

Thank you soooooo much for the amount of information and advices you share, I'm such a perfectionist and I want to be the best prepared for my bunny and your content was exactly what I needed ☺️ Thanks a lot!!!!

[@raehughes]

Its also helpful to understand the rabbit personality of the natural HEIRARCHY that the rabbit falls into ,. And then the human has to establish themself as the QUEEN/KING that the rabbit respects and feels protected by... the heirarchy of rabbit personality matters! QUEEN / KING , SOLDIERS , COMMUNITY ...

[@ThumpersMama18]

You should sell bunny stickers!! I’ve been collecting them for years :) magnets too!

[@kjpdjb]

Please, please help me. We adopted a bunny from a rescue. He was obviously neglected, because our vet said he was skinny. He was so skinny when we adopted him that his back bone was protruding. The vet saw him 3 weeks after we adopted him, which gave him time to gain weight. She still said he was skinny. She also said his teeth were somewhat pointed, when they should be straight. I wanted to share his history to see if his sudden and vicious biting of me is because of neglect/abuse, and if it can be corrected. He bit me twice very hard, latching on and shaking his body. Ty

[@My_Alchemical_Romance]

your my favorite human, by far. :)

[@CaleMcCollough]

You need to wear long rain boots if the bunny is charging you and dominate them without being a overly scary. It doesn't take much to freak a rabbit out.

[@belleboucles3646]

Such useful tips. Thank you. X

[@southsidesweep]

More great advice. My buns are adopted from a shelter and at the beginning they were aggressive. I assume because of the trauma of their experiences. The one was so "aggressive"(she lunged) the lady at the shelter wore elbow length leather gloves to bring her to me. During the process I was thinking to myself this isn't good. But when I was in the room alone with the bun I had no problem handling her. Yes she lunged and grunted at me. But I wasn't affraid to get bitten since I had just lost a bun and had one at home and figured it was just the situation. I never got bit. But the lunging still happens 2 plus years later. It's not aggressive like the beginning by any means. And the other one I adopted at the same.time shows no aggressiveness at all except when I'm giving treats but it's.more excitement than aggressive. It makes me.wonder how they were treated before adoption. They thought the one was about 3 and the other about a year old at the time. And couldnt give me any background. But they are bonded and so full of love now. And I hope Elly and Teddy are working things out. And hope they are starting to be friends again.

[@kijxy]

Is she spayed?

[@southsidesweep]

@@kijxy yes. They were spayed at the shelter before being put up for adoption.

[@RX7821979]

Hi Amy love you 😘

[@destinyinvest364]

He is very hormonal😮

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I live for Elle's/Elusive's high 5s. Seems she's the one who does them all. I never see Teddy Bear give high 5s.

[@kinpatsublonde4004]

I have a bunny who does all of these things and she’s been doing these for years I’ve done everything listed and she will get frustrated with me being around she will eat the rugs, walls, blankets, and litter box…. I’ve bought bought and made plenty of toys and have done those treat tricks too which she’s super intelligent with, but she wants me to never touch her. I ignore her and pet her gently and get bit a lot by her even though I go slow towards her she has places to hide if she needs I don’t prevent her from running away. I don’t quite know since I’ve never had a rabbit like this before. Can it be breed? She’s a netherland dwarf rabbit and she talks a lot when I enter her enclosure and she will run away or lunge at me nearly barking at me or a low toned growl sound.

[@NancyWhitehead-cs5gg]

I have a rabbit that growls and will lounge at me, but ONLY ME, I am her feeder and pretty much her only human contact. If she sees me anywhere near her cage, she will run toward me and growl. I don't understand why she only does this to me.

[@cale7306]

My bunny doesn’t drink water, what should i do? It’s been several months, all it does it eat leafy greens or hay, but when i bring water close to it, it runs away.

[@GDName]

where did you get your grey litterbox?

[@LReno-di9cm]

Sam's has them in kitchen supplies....busboy box

[@gemmslife4862]

What breed is Ellie I have a rabbit called twitch and he looks exactly the same and I’m unsure on his breed

[@ajxx9987]

This is unrelated to the video but could you give de-worming tips?

[@mr.latteandmore]

I have a question... my rabbit chews my closet and i'd like to know what to do.

[@Wilma74022]

I remember Amy talking about using masking tape to protect the baseboards, maybe that will help 🙂

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Not gonna lie: I'm old and lonely and I want a rabbit to love me. :)

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

So, all those millions of wild female rabbits, who obviously never get fixed, get uterine cancer and die from it?

[@user-vz3up1fl5u]

Rabbits in the wild don't live very long, they are food for predators. Rabbits in the wild die way before cancer can even happen.

[@davimurph]

Yes. If they don't get eaten, or die of one of the many unpleasant diseases circulating in the wild rabbit population first. The life of a wild European rabbit is, with apologies to Thomas Hobbes, nasty, brutish and short. In the UK, the Wildlife Trust estimates that the average life of a wild rabbit is 3 years. A pet rabbit is likely to live far longer and likely to develop an age-related reproductive cancer.

[@cpsea15]

you could pull it’s tail or grab it by it’s hind let’s