My Holland Lop eared is niping

Question
Hi,
My name is Armilda and I have two quick question's.

My Holland Lop eared bunny will nip even when she isn't being threatened.  I was wondering why she was doing this.

She has nipped me about three times today and I know she has nipped at least two of my three son's and she has nipped a young lady that I consider one of my own.

Do you know why she is doing this and how do we break her of it?

Answer
Hi,

I can't really tell you because you don't really give me any context in which the nips are occurring. I don't know what you're doing, or trying to do, when it happens.

If she is under a year old and not been spayed yet, she probably has hit sexual maturity and may not enjoy hands poking into her cage area while she's in there.  If you are picking her up and don't normally do that, she's expressing displeasure at that.

If it's the former case, she is at an age you need to take her to a good rabbit vet (not all are) and get her spayed.  It will cut down on cage aggression and the like.  Start here:

www.rabbit.org/vets/vets.html

to find a House Rabbit Society recommended vet near you.  Spend time on their web site reading up about spays and neuters and what to do (and not do) before and after surgery.

If it's the latter there's something she doesn't like that occurred in your house today.  Did you move where she's located?  Change something that affects her environment?  New people in the house she's not used to?  Someone she's used to no longer in the house?  Do you smell like another animal?  Have you switched perfumes or started smoking?  New hair spray?  Did something to her house?  Did someone whack her nose or drop her when they were holding her today?  did you move furniture around in the room(s) she's used to being in?  Was she caged when she's normally out?

There are two truths to rabbit behavior.  It's either hormonally driven (ie sexual maturity) or they are reacting to something that is bothering them.  Rabbits are not angry, mean animals, they do not have personalities that are naturally inclined to be mean towards people.  When they do this it's a reaction to something, it's not something innately bad in their character.  It falls to us to figure out what they are reacting to.  Hopefully if she hasn't been spayed it's that, because that's an easy one to figure out.  If it's the other possibility, then you will have to figure out what change(s) were and go from there.