Please Help! Second rabbit troubles

[valentinescarlett2015]

PLEASE HELP I NEED EXPERT ADVICE.

First off I bought both my rabbits. I understand it is better to adopt from a shelter but I have yet to find a shelter, where I live, that has rabbits. My first rabbit’s name Is Valentine.I bought him when he was 8 weeks old, I believe? He is a LionHead-Angora mix, he is extremely smart, hyper, fun-loving, fearless, and has a huge personality. He is about 7-8 months old right now, but, I notched awhile back that he was lonely, so I began to search to find him a companion. 

He fell in love with a Holland Lop that I named Scarlett. When I met her she was sweet, loved to be pet and was pretty okay with everything. She was a breeding rabbit and is a little over a year old. The woman I bought her from described her to have this huge personality, and said that her breed would be energetic. I cannot tell if she is still timid and frightened of her new found life or she really is as boring as a potato. She hides under a box the ENTIRE day, does not roam much and does not play or chew. I bought her back in July, I am deeply worried her new life just is not for her. I give them a grand amount of space to roam ( she previously had a cage) I have a decent sized room attached to mine. Val runs and plays all day and all night, he has a fierce appetite but is quite healthy. Scarlett eats, but not very much. She just recently began to take treats by hand, but down right refuses to enteract with anyone. As i mentioned earlier Val is very smart, when it is feeding time, and because Scarlett practically lives in a box, he goes and gets her to come eat. 

I need some advice as to help Scarlett is any way, she is not very active, and hops around oddly. It is difficult to examine her because she runs and hides. I did recently notice she had diarrhea and it dried on her. ( i noticed it in a attempt to coax her to the food)  

She also previously had a eye infection and has red urine. I also down-sized her roaming space to help her feel more comfortable.

Please please give me any advice you can. 

[Roberta]

I think you need to get her to a vet. Try putting down her carrier and letting her walk in of her own accord. If they both go in that’s fine as they can go together to the vet to reduce stress.

[lillian]

Awww well I hope scarlet gets to feeling better!

Put valentine away for a little bit so scarlet has her own free time to try to explore. I know my buns were both very territorial when I first got them and completely avoided eachothers “Area” until we let them roam freely one at a time (they still claim eachothers territory all the time). Let scarlet try to explore on her own and let her be for a little bit. My littlest one would not explore at first unless I was completely paying no attention to him.

For the dark urine: That, I’m really unsure of. Midnight, my oldest dwarf, had that for the first few months we had her. It was actually yellowish orange, but, as it dried, it seemed more red in color. That might need to be addressed by a vet, as well as the strange hopping.

[valentinescarlett2015]

Thankyou so very much for the quick response!

 When I first got them they basically had a pee war. I stripped the room cleaned and basically shampooed the carpet. Since that, neither has sprayed or peed anywhere but in their litterboxes. I have never seen them fight, he doesn’t hump her anymore but he loves to groom her. Valentine, has not ever liked cages, I just let him roam. I tried to put Scarlett up (though I only did this one day) but Valentine kept chewing at the door and trying to throw it the direction that it opens, I was terrified of him hurting himself, so today I let her out..

 At the momment I am watching her make her way to her “corner” she doesn’t seem to enjoy people very much shes entirely skittish. 

I plan to take your advice in to consideration, I will try giving her a “bed time” being the cage and maybe it will help her feel more secure. Maybe only letting her out to play for a bit will help too. 

It’s just so weird that she is intensly anti-social and different that Val in almost every way! 

Update: she came out of the corner and is now searching for her box that I moved, I believe, still hopping weirdly though. 

I am unsure of how to bond with her, I have been on every site and followed everything to a T but she seems to dislike me even more. 

[valentinescarlett2015]

Thankyou for the advice! 

[kcomstoc]

the red urine isn’t too worrisome, bunnies have a orange-ish urine….but I would also get a vet check just to make sure. It’s a good idea with any new pet to have them checked out. Also some bunnies are like that, they like to hide and run away and are just anti-social. My first bunny Caleb *I bought him from a breeder* is the most out-going bunny ever and not scared of anything *sudden noises no big deal I think I’ll flop, vacuum cleaner going next problem please* my other bunny Gamgee is a rescue and he is scared of anything/any noise. I just walk over into their area and he’s running for cover, he does come back out but if I try to pet him he hops away out of my reach. Gamgee ADORES Caleb though and give him some confidence.

[valentinescarlett2015]

I cannot believe it that is exactly, to a perfect T how my rabbits are! Val has taught her so much but she just runs and runs from human contact. 

[kcomstoc]

I try not to take it personally, I just accept that’s the way it is and try not to bug him too much. I do pet him when he comes over *he only likes to be pet on the head* and sometimes he’ll let me pet him for awhile Clipping his nails though is a nightmare, we have to wrap him in a towel because when he gets nervous he just constantly bites it doesn’t matter what so the towel helps him by giving him something he can chew on besides us >.>

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