New baby.

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QUESTION: I read a previous question abour introducing a new baby to an adult Un-altared rabbit. My situation is slightly different. I have two adult rabbits (one male and one female) who have both been spayed and neutered for some time. Two days ago I brought home a new baby bunny. Befor reading that you should not introduce them until after the baby is older and possibly fixed, I did try to introduce them. The male was a little curious but the famale is kind of going nuts. She runs around me in circles when im holding the baby. When i did put the baby on the floor for a second, she pounced on it and may have bitten it. She even bit me twice when i tried to rescue the baby. Also, if it makes a difference, The female had a litter of kits before she was spayed. The kits are all grown. Some of them come to visit and are NOT fixed. She doesnt seem to even care when they are around but the new baby is the one that gets her going. I would just like to know what is going on with her and if I should have hope that they will ever get along. Thank you for your time and answer. ~Mia

ANSWER: Mia,

why did you not take the advice you were given on this subject?

You never introduce strange rabbits just to see what happens.  Especially not when you put a totally new one in another's territory.  New rabbits should never just be placed with others because you don't know if they are sick, until you get the ok from a vet they are not harboring anything that could affect your current guys.

I am sorry but you need to listen to people when they tell you things.  why ask if you're not going to listen?  You have to be responsible for your animals, they depend on you for safety.  And you jeopardized all of their safety doing that.  Rabbits will defend their turf from strangers.  It can take months of bonding exercises to get rabbits to get along with each other.  Some never get along.

Take your new one to the vet to have him given a once-over, and esepcially where you think the bites may have been.  You should always take a new bunny to your regular good rabbit vet soon after you get him to check for problems and bloodwork done.

If you need to find a good rabbit vet go here:

www.rabbit.org/vets/vets.html

to find a House Rabbit Society recommended vet near you.

Lee

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QUESTION: Thank you for responding but i have to say that you didnt read my question at all or you didnt understand it. I love my rabbits and I would never do anything to intentionally harm them. I never read about introducing them until after i already did it and got the bad result. I didnt introduce them "just to see what would happen". I didnt "Not Listen" to anyones advice. What i did do was try to ask a question to better my situation but all i got in return was repremanded and yelled at with words. So thank you for making me feel stupid and I will never bother you with another question. I will never even use this site again.

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Hi Mia,

I did read your question again, and it does appear I mis-read parts of it and got a wrong impression of what actually you did.  I do apologize for that.  Given some of the questions I have gotten in the past from people who do ask questions, and then do not follow the advice, and come back to ask what went wrong, I glossed over your question too quickly.  Again, I am sorry for that.

I wouldn't write off the site.  Don't cut your nose off to spite your face.  You're only robbing yourself of a good resource site.  We're only human here too and we flub up once in awhile.  Most of us admit it when we do.

And apart from getting what you did wrong, the bonding and vet exam stuff you should still consider, that is going to hold true despite me flubbing up on what happened.

Lee