Actually the strangest thing happened. I let the mother and babies settle in for a few days, then I put in another young female who is about seven months old. I watched to make sure she didn't hurt the babies. The mother rabbit at first tried to mate with her but she ran away since she is female as well. Then the babies started smelling her and the two largest babies started attacking her, one pulled out a big chunk of fur and they chased her around the pen. I stopped them but then I had to take her out because the mother and her got into a fight like two cats. I never saw that before, usually all my females get along and only the males fight. I never thought in a million years babies would attack.
The Great Bunny Drive of 2018.
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The Great Bunny Drive of 2018.
The moma bunny and four little bunnies were getting too big for their cage, so I had the neighbors saddle up and drive the bunny herd from the wintering grounds to a larger pen.
Actually the strangest thing happened. I let the mother and babies settle in for a few days, then I put in another young female who is about seven months old. I watched to make sure she didn't hurt the babies. The mother rabbit at first tried to mate with her but she ran away since she is female as well. Then the babies started smelling her and the two largest babies started attacking her, one pulled out a big chunk of fur and they chased her around the pen. I stopped them but then I had to take her out because the mother and her got into a fight like two cats. I never saw that before, usually all my females get along and only the males fight. I never thought in a million years babies would attack.
Actually the strangest thing happened. I let the mother and babies settle in for a few days, then I put in another young female who is about seven months old. I watched to make sure she didn't hurt the babies. The mother rabbit at first tried to mate with her but she ran away since she is female as well. Then the babies started smelling her and the two largest babies started attacking her, one pulled out a big chunk of fur and they chased her around the pen. I stopped them but then I had to take her out because the mother and her got into a fight like two cats. I never saw that before, usually all my females get along and only the males fight. I never thought in a million years babies would attack.
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Shades of Monty Python!
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KILLER BUNNIES!!!!
I can just hear David Attenborough's voice. "The killer bunnies form a pack, then signal to each other to begin attacking the unsuspecting single rabbit. Death would be eminent was it not for the skinny guy running in to save her"!
I guess they claimed the entire pen as theirs, like females do with their cage.
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critters of all types are territorial.
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