How do you stop a rabbit humping?

Answer 1

The best way to stop your rabbit from reproducing is to get her spayed. There are many benefits to spaying rabbits, including behavioural and health-related. See the related question below for details.

Your other option is to simply keep your rabbit away from male rabbits.

Answer 2

Your rabbit is thumping because he is alarmed. It is normal rabbit behavior to thump to tell the rest of the warren that there is danger about. Find out what is alarming him and try to eliminate it. It could be loud children, dogs, cats, hawks or any number of perceived threats.

Answer 3

You don't say what the circumstances are; are they male or female, young or old, Mom and babies??? I will answer in general terms since I don't know the specifics.

EVERY rabbit should have it's own cage after it reaches 9 to 10 weeks of age!! Mother rabbits will start biting their babies at this age because the babies are still trying to nurse and are probably biting her teats. Young rabbits (9 to 10 weeks) need their own cages because at this age they are teenagers and will start fighting for dominance and practicing pre-breeding actions. Older bunnies (3 to 4 months) are old enough to breed (but shouldn't) and they too are fighting for dominance, food and territory. Two males together will definitely fight for dominance and could mortally wound each other. Two females together MAY get along longer but they will, eventually, start fighting especially when they are 'in season' or feel there is a food shortage. If they are bred they will definitely fight- for space, food and nesting territory. A male and female will fight because, frankly, she will get tired of him trying to breed her all the time. Does have been known to castrate and even kill male rabbits they are left in with. (This is the reason, when breeding rabbits, you don't walk away and leave them together. You only put the doe in the bucks cage long enough to get the job done and then remove her.)

Rabbits 'biting each other' can mean a simple nip, a hair pulling bite or a vicious ear splitting, eye gouging attack. Rabbits will bite and use their huge, powerful hind legs to rip at their opponents soft underside.

Answer 4

Put them in separate cages, keep them apart. Castration of male rabbits is a common procedure.

There are a lot of benefits to spaying/neutering your rabbit. The operation is routine for rabbit-savvy vets and safe.

Answer 5

Each other? Try spraying them with water. To prevent the act in the first place, get them spayed or neutered.

You, or your friends? Try stepping on his (the dog's) toes. Not hard, you don't want to stomp or cause damage. Just hard enough to make him uncomfortable. Do it every time he tries, and he should stop fairly quickly when he starts to associate 'humping' with getting his toes stepped on. It also works for dogs that jump up on you.

Answer 6

You can't really stop it; mounting is natural rabbit behaviour.

When two rabbits first meet, and they don't hate each other, there will be some mounting as they work out the relationship (usually, one rabbit will be subordinate to the other, so they have to figure out who is who). Usually, as time goes on and the rabbits bond, there will be less mounting, but you still might see some now and again, and depending on their personalities you might might see it a lot.

Maybe if you give the rabbits a really comfortable and secure habitat, so they have less stress, they might get along better.

See the related questions below for more info and helpful links.

Answer 7

If a female, get her spayed. If a male, get him castrated.

Answer 8

get him fixed

Answer 9

Don't let it attack you.