Grumpy Thumping

[Gwennie and the Buffster]

Buffy is quite demanding. She thumps when she’s scared, like when she hears loud cars outside or helicopters overhead (which makes sense), but lately she’s taken to thumping at every mild annoyance.

My partner left the house for a doctor’s appointment earlier today. She ran around looking for him and thumping.

The other day, a friend of ours came around, left for thirty minutes to go on a food run, and then came back. She thumped angrily at him when he came back and snubbed him until he made it up to her with pats. He’s her favourite person (she goes crazy for flamboyant gay men, go figure), and we think she was mad that he left 

Yesterday, I took her outside in her playpen. She thumped after about thirty minutes, which I took to mean that she wanted back inside, but when she got back in, she ran around for about five minutes, thumping like crazy.

Does this indicate a problem? I think she’s just a bit of a diva, but I want to be sure. Do any of you guys have especially thumpy rabbits?

EDIT: Whoops, put this in the wrong section! Could one of the mods please move it to behavior? Sorry!

[Tay]

Is she fixed? Charlie started doing the same thing recently. He never used to thump and the first time he did it it startled me and made me feel terrible that I was doing something wrong to him. He doesn’t really stomp at anything like cars – just when he’s mad at me for something (of course.)
I was doing some reading because his thumping was driving me crazy and read that some of it can be hormones, so I chalked it up to that. He’s still too young to be fixed, but over time he’s actually stopped doing it as much. He definitely still lets me know if he’s mad, but not nearly as frequently

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