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 Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:01 pm
Common in dogs, who have no way of knowing if you'll be gone for five minutes or a week. But other pets suffer from it too. My rabbit likes people but she LOVES me. I'm living in a dorm and come home on weekends. While I'm there she's totally calm and sweet, but while I'm away she gets tense, mean, and nervous, even with my mom, her second favorite person. I've thought of getting her a bunny friend, but she doesn't seem to like other animals...
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:43 pm
Wow. Be glad that your case of seperation anxiety isn't that bad. (if asked, I'll share mine.)
She may not like other animals, but what about other rabbits?
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:17 pm
I know My guinea pigs start squeaking supper loud whenever I come in a room,but so far I`ve only been gone 3 days,and they were angry at me when I came back,they wouldn`t squeak happily for a week!
Maybe ask someone else [like your mom] to spend A LOT of time with your bunny,so that she can get use to someone else.
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:44 pm
Time to be "cruel" to be kind.
Don't take over bunny duties when you come back home, let the person who does it while you're away keep doing it. Let that person get her out of the cage, and hand her to you if you want to hold her. Let that person be the bringer of all good things. it should help to focus the rabbit more towards the person that is going to be there while you're away, and help to ease her stress a bit.
Once she realizes that things are not going to change and she's gonna have the same person there for her all the time while you're not there, and that you are not the current giver of all that is good in bunny-land, she'll calm down and stop being so snippy. I've had to transfer a lot of bunnies.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:19 pm
Yeah, it isn't that bad. (Feel free to share yours.) She's only met a couple other adult rabbits briefly at the pet store, and one when she had a pet-sitter (an unneutered male, so that obviously didn't work), so it's hard to know. (She's 2 years old and spayed, btw, but still territorial.) If we got another bunny, it would probably be a baby, and belong to my mom, not me. (She said she might want a rabbit after her rat dies.)
I'm definitely trying to get other people to pay more attention to her while I'm there. As for feeding, cleaning her litterbox, and all that...Well, I bought her and she's always been my responsibility. We have 3 dogs, 3 rats, and a bird to take care of too, and my parents are busy teachers. sweatdrop "Transferring" is good advice, though. I should at least try to reduce the change for her somehow.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:21 pm
My rabbit normally doesn't mind when I leave, but on Wednesday, I dropped her off at the State Fair and she seemed pretty cool at first, but when I went to leave her, she refused to let me put her down. I almost had to scrape her out of my arms, the poor girl. When I went to visit her today she was still rather unhappy about me leaving her. Besides dogs, she's the first pet I've ever had who was unhappy about me leaving.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:39 pm
My grandma's dog has that, and so dose my cat.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:42 pm
~That's so gay...~
My tale is that my cousin's dog had such awful seperation anxiety (he'd chew EVERYTHING), that they would have to lock him in a crate while they left. My cousin, Shey, and her boyfriend, Chris, would always come home to weird things. At one point, Hunter (the beagle) was choking himself, because he'd managed to get his head through a hole. Another time, they found the bottom in the kitchen, and the top of the crate in the living room. This particular time, Shey and Chris came home to find Hunter with his eye popped out. Now Hunter has no vision in his left eye. Poor boi DX
~Stop being so straight!~
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:35 pm
My rabbit seems to be calming down. Thankfully, I think she's getting used to the routine. It's been right after summer and winter break that she's gotten really upset.
I'm still very tempted to get another bunny, though. I mean, my room is already a rabbit paradise. There are ramps and tunnels and litterboxes and toys everywhere, and all the cords are hidden. xD As long as I could get Roxie to share...
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:24 pm
Ghost of Green Glades Yeah, it isn't that bad. (Feel free to share yours.) She's only met a couple other adult rabbits briefly at the pet store, and one when she had a pet-sitter (an unneutered male, so that obviously didn't work), so it's hard to know. (She's 2 years old and spayed, btw, but still territorial.) If we got another bunny, it would probably be a baby, and belong to my mom, not me. (She said she might want a rabbit after her rat dies.) I'm definitely trying to get other people to pay more attention to her while I'm there. As for feeding, cleaning her litterbox, and all that...Well, I bought her and she's always been my responsibility. We have 3 dogs, 3 rats, and a bird to take care of too, and my parents are busy teachers. sweatdrop "Transferring" is good advice, though. I should at least try to reduce the change for her somehow.
If you get another rabbit, introduce them in neutral ground. Like the bathtub for instance. Does your bun roam the house? If they aren't out to much the bun will prolly' just see her cage as her territory, not the whole house.
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:39 pm
xchocolate coated sushix Ghost of Green Glades Yeah, it isn't that bad. (Feel free to share yours.) She's only met a couple other adult rabbits briefly at the pet store, and one when she had a pet-sitter (an unneutered male, so that obviously didn't work), so it's hard to know. (She's 2 years old and spayed, btw, but still territorial.) If we got another bunny, it would probably be a baby, and belong to my mom, not me. (She said she might want a rabbit after her rat dies.) I'm definitely trying to get other people to pay more attention to her while I'm there. As for feeding, cleaning her litterbox, and all that...Well, I bought her and she's always been my responsibility. We have 3 dogs, 3 rats, and a bird to take care of too, and my parents are busy teachers. sweatdrop "Transferring" is good advice, though. I should at least try to reduce the change for her somehow.
If you get another rabbit, introduce them in neutral ground. Like the bathtub for instance. Does your bun roam the house? If they aren't out to much the bun will prolly' just see her cage as her territory, not the whole house.Ooh, not the bathtub. xD But yeah, I know the basic routine. She sees my room as her territory (though she acknowledges it as partly mine), so I'd have to start them off somewhere else until she's willing to share. But...this wouldn't happen until summer break. That is, if I convince my family. ^___^' After all, they'll have to take care of them while I'm not there.
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Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:12 pm
I have Hermit Crabs.
And some fish.
They rock...
but they don't much care WHERE I go. mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:09 am
I am on the extreme of that. My sugar gliders probably WOULD have separation anxiety... IF WE WERE EVER SEPERATED! hee hee! No, I DO leave overnight once a year and we all survive, it is just an ORDEAL.
Gliders bond VERY strongly with their "colony" which includes both their cagemates and YOU. So much so that often rehoming, the death of a mate, etc. can cause such severe depression that they will self mutilate sometimes to death. So I don't leave for long very often just so they never THINK I have abandoned them.
Funny story about this though, Sometimes this attachments to each other can be a GREAT help. Because my 3 are SO close, I NEVER take them anywhere apart. Not to the store, the vet, anywhere. Well, Nani is a bit of a brat and she does not always like me. However, ********* adores me and NOT bite. So one very drugged up (I am on heavy prescription meds! hee hee!) day, when I was bringing the pouch upstairs I was SHOCKED when ********* jumped out and started barking, very upset... and then bit my hand!
I knew he was upset, but could NOT understand why! They he lept from my wrist to the floor and ran to the stairs! I scolded him but followed. As soon as she saw I would go down stairs as he was directing (the little glider Lassie!) he ran back up my leg and calmed down. THAT'S when I looked in the suspiciously LIGHT bonding pouch. ********* was upset because NANI was MISSING! When we got to the glider cage that I had left open, thinking I HAD my 3, Heebs jumped into the cage looking for his sweetie, Lilo stayed on me. Then ********* ran to the floor and started looking... and FOUND her! I caught my little stinker, that naughty girl and ********* came to me happily.
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