OK so several months ago we found a bunny that was abandoned in a field next to our house (the second one in 6 months) The first bunny is she and sweet and will lick you face, the second one is rather outgoing, he runs around the house with the dogs and cats (humps the cat) I think thats a dominate thing. chases chickens in the yard. he demands attention from me all the time. I mean no one else gets his weird behavior. When I let him out he chases me all around the house. If I stop moving he runs circles around my feet, If I sit he jumps in my lap, nips if I dont pet him. pees on the couch where I sit if I am not there, when outside he will do a drive by pee on my shoes and pants. If I am working in the garden he sits right next to me, If I dig with a shovel he digs away, if I put a stick to mark my seeds he pulls it out. If I leave the back door open while going in and out he chases after me in and out, almost getting stepped on because he is running circles. So has anyone one else had this, and what is with the peeing, on me, on my spot on the couch. He is acutally my favorite animal in the house I adore him.
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Demamma
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Do you have a cage for him?
MamaSheepdog
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What a character! :lol:
He is "marking" you as his own by peeing on you. If you are not planning on breeding him, I would recommend getting him neutered.
It will take about a month for his hormones to be affected, but after that the behavior should diminish, and hopefully eventually stop altogether.
He is "marking" you as his own by peeing on you. If you are not planning on breeding him, I would recommend getting him neutered.
It will take about a month for his hormones to be affected, but after that the behavior should diminish, and hopefully eventually stop altogether.
Yes he has a cage, but I allow him out for an hour or two a day usually in the morning after I come down stairs. he goes crazy in his cage running back and forth until I let him out. then he follows me to put the dogs out and bring them in and feed them and then to get my coffee, where I go sit on the couch and he jumps in my lap for a petting, then I put him away and head to work. in the afternoons if I am going to work in the yard I let him out and he follows to "help" The peeing on the couch has only happened a few times. I have learned to not leave him alone in the living room. As for outside I can only guess on that one he thankfully hasn't done it recently. I dont know if it means he mad at me or marking me. Oh and he is not fixed.
he's claimed you as "his own" and well....is being very boy about it. I'd get him neutered if keeping him as a pet.
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Hihi he's full of personality!
I have one that is 24/7 free but he doesn't go in the house.
Doesn't follow me around most of the time but stays around, if i walk over to the shed, he will join me aswell.
Cleaning the big pen, he will hang around behind the pen fence.
When i'm sweeping the floor he will sniff around and spray pee on me which i'm cautious of most of the time but he always gets me, can't really get used to that part. Makes me pissed at times, but can't hem miss him either.
I had a different buck who was free last year but he never followed me, he is neutered and lives inside the colony with the girls now.
He was always very jumpy and active but changed into an old fart who sleeps the whole day since he got neutered.
It doesn't matter when i go to pen, he's always sleeping on the same place.
I have one that is 24/7 free but he doesn't go in the house.
Doesn't follow me around most of the time but stays around, if i walk over to the shed, he will join me aswell.
Cleaning the big pen, he will hang around behind the pen fence.
When i'm sweeping the floor he will sniff around and spray pee on me which i'm cautious of most of the time but he always gets me, can't really get used to that part. Makes me pissed at times, but can't hem miss him either.
I had a different buck who was free last year but he never followed me, he is neutered and lives inside the colony with the girls now.
He was always very jumpy and active but changed into an old fart who sleeps the whole day since he got neutered.
It doesn't matter when i go to pen, he's always sleeping on the same place.
