After you bought a rabbit, give him time to look round on the new place. After that for you there comes the most responsible period: education and domestication of your new family member. Because rabbits by the nature are extremely timid, your main task is to accustom a rabbit to your presence that he was not afraid and did not run away from you. Having taken the following advice, you will be able significantly to facilitate to yourself process of education of the pet.
Instruction
1. Often owners of rabbits complain that suddenly their absolutely quiet and tame favourite begins to show aggression to the owners: he bites, makes a start pads. Such behavior is caused by the fact that for your pet there came the puberty period. Aggression dies away subsequently, but in certain cases can remain.
2. It is important to remember that if you even are not engaged occasionally with a rabbit, to give him in day at least half an hour, then soon your pet will lose interest in life and will or not to react to all your attempts to improve at all, or to behave aggressively.
3. Usually the krolchat pretty fast get used to the new owner. The main thing that process of domestication was as much as possible gradual. Approximately in a week at the tender address your pet will become completely tame.
4. Rabbits are silent creations. At most, what from them it is possible to hear is or silent "clang" or a specific sound of a meeting of a male and female. But happens that from a strong fright or pain of the krolchat begin to shout stridently. Therefore if you, having picked up the pet, heard this sound, best of all cage the pet back and do not touch some time. If the rabbit begins to knock pads on a cage, it means that he either is angry, or is scared.
5. Some people try to accustom a rabbit to walk on a lead. Do it gradually, and use not a usual collar (as the rabbit will never get used to it), and a special breast-band which is used for small breeds of dog. At first put on a lead for several minutes. Regularly repeat this procedure with increase in the time spent of a breast-band for a rabbit. Approximately in a week let out a rabbit from a cage on a lead and walk with it on the apartment. When you are going to go outside, try to choose the quiet place without dogs.
6. Rabbits can be accustomed to various tricks. But you remember that at the beginning any correct movement of a rabbit needs to be supported with delicacy (for example, a carrots piece).