Hello,

I have two lion heads, a girl and boy (brother and sister) Wiggles (boy) has been snipped so he is all good and just gets on with life Smudge (girl) hasnt been done but seems to want to have sex with Wiggles all the time, she gets on him and has a go and then Wiggles just sort of moves away.

Is this common?

Should i have her done?

Kezia

Its recommended to have your female buns spayed to reduce the risk of uterine cancer, but again this is a personal decision. As for the humping behaviour I believe it is also used by female rabbits to show they are more dominant. I suppose it would be more common in unspayed rabbits, but I'm not sure. I have never seen or heard about a spayed rabbit carrying out this behaviour. I hope someone else can give you some better advice

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This is very common, all my breeding does (females) are more horny than the bucks (males) most of the time, ive had pairs of females living together that regulary try and mate each other, mainly its establishing dominance! It may stop or calm down if you get her spayed, but not nessasarily, i have a 7yr old dwarf lop doe, who used to be a breeding doe, she is now spayed and she still has phantom pregnancys and will mount everything! Even the vets say that its not possible for her to be having phantoms!! But she does regulary!
As long as she isnt hurting the male then its not a problem, but it might be worth getting her spayed anyone for health reasons!

Anna x

Thanks for the advice, no dont think she is hurting him in anyway, they both seem happy. Although i think she is having a phantom pregnancy or something as she is pulling her fur out?!

Kezia

Yep, that would be a phantom pregnancy! One of my does has a phatom everytime i clean her out - she builds a new nest!

If she is having a phantom she may be more hormoneal, and might grunt at you and not want to be handled but it shouldnt last very long, and it doesnt affect her health wise.

Anna x

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My female bun is always hormonal She can be quite wicked!

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lol funny lil rabbit

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Yes she grunts! Thanks for your help

Kezia

errrr she could be pregnant for real if you havent seperated them!!! Male buns stay fertile for up to 6 weeks post neuter i hope she isnt. You definetely need to get her done, 80% of entire does develop cancer of the uterus, it will also calm her down. Id get her emergency neutered now if i were you.

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Crofty - the vets should have told her this when she got him castrated so hopefully it isnt an issue, also if she was pregnant she would have had the babies by now if she was pulling fur out over a week ago! The post was about the female mating with the male, so if he still had testostrone and was fertile then he would have been trying to mate with her, even male bunnies that have been castrated for 6 months usually still ocassinally try to mate!
Crofty - i'm also curious to know where you got your figures from, 80% of does develop cancer of the uterus??! This means that some crazy vet must have studyed houndreds of thousands of rabbits to get this figure, and half of thoose 80% would never be dignosed with uterine cancer (I may almost believe that if we were talking about breeding does)! I have a figure from local vets alone, that over 30% of rabbits (male and female) die from the anasetic while being neutered! I'd only ever chance this for a medical reason.

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