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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A Mad bunny after spay.

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    • Violet
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        Violet went and got her spay after the whole peeing blood fiasco and we kept her in her cage for a week. She didn’t want to be bothered while she was healing and I was the bad guy stuffing yucky medicine down her throat for a week. But now that she’s out and running around the house I still feel like she’s mad at me. She’s seems to have gotten very protective of her food bowl and when I put hay in her potty. When I’m putting hay and she’s in there, she will grunt and box at me. This is such different behavior than before the spay. She would jump on the couch to cuddle with me and now doesn’t do that anymore. She doesn’t come to the cage door when we go by it anymore either.

         What can I do to make her trust/like me again? She’s was and still is cuddly with my husband.


      • SeaTurtleSwims
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          The negative association formed from giving her medicine might be healed if you just hang out with her on the couch/floor and make a circle of kale/apples etc around you.It’s probably important to go slow at her pace and give her safe space when she starts to run/hide/box. Hang out by her cage and talk to her. Just start the original bonding process over again and see if you can’t heal old wounds with time, love and patience


        • Bam
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            She can still have mood swings after the spay. It’s a normal occurence due to fluctuating hormone levels in the blood. It tends to make a bunny protective of food and home (what’s know as cage aggression but it occurs without a cage too of course), grumpy, nippy and territorial (pee- and poop-marking). Since you were “the bad guy” who gave her meds, she might concentrate her grumpiness on you. I’d try out SeaTurtleSwims’s advice, but hormonal grumpiness can last several months in a girl.


          • LittlePuffyTail
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              Agree with Bam. Sounds like crazy hormones.

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