How long did it take for you to bond with your bunny?

How long did it take for you to really bond with your bunny, as in your feelings for them?

With Vince it was almost straight away when I held in the [email=P@H]P@H[/email] adoption centre. Vince has always been the apple of my eye and always will be as he is my first bunny. I fell for Faline almost as quick as Vince as she is so gentle natured and once caught will be cuddled and stroked. Hazel has taken ages, it's only now now I feel love towards her, don't know why as she is my calmest bun who is happy with the kids fussing her and is easy to catch! She is a lovely bun and beautiful to stroke with her velvet rex fur.

Rosie was a few days as she is such a cheeky and clever bun, I do love my Rosie and miss her living in my back room and Hutch, I've not yet bonded to, he is a very pretty boy but that's it at the mo, but I'm confident I will bond soon as he is very similar in temperment to Faline. I just need to sort out this mucky mess in their hutch so I can get in them with them both and spend some quality time with him in his own environment like I do the trio.

Daisy was my baby straight away but dont think I really knew it until we nearly lost him. I was devastated.

He is the apple of my eye (as you all know).

I can understand that different buns take different amounts of time. With Vince, Faline and Rosie, you had plenty of one on one time with each of them to really get to know their personalities.

Please give them all nose rubs from me.

ahhh, I will do, thank you

Luna, I think it took a few days....but then she was my everything...even when she was being the stroppiest moo ever I had to just laugh it off.
Thistle was almost instantly when the lady brought him round in his little carrier...he was so tiny and the perfect colour! He didn't mind me picking him up, even tho he has always been a bit squirmy and was so curious he'd climb all over me I do miss him being that small but he's turned into such a lovely boy!!

With Bertie it took over a year, unbeknown to us he was suffering the entire time we had him with arthritis. It then started to impact his helath and when I thought he'd die (although he hadn't even recognised we existed) I realised how much he meant to me. Once the marvellous Mr C sorted him out, he became a very close and valuable friend.

Funny you ask this now, with Stewie, it's literally happening this week. He has started coming to us for cuddles and just seems to want to spend time with us, sitting at my feet a lot and following us round. Weird that it's after the vets visit too

I "bonded" with both of then basically immediately even though BunnyBoo is still my favorite. I went and get him December 24th and he was gonna be Santa present for my daughter. We spent part of the day together hidden alone in my bedroom. With animals I have always behaved in a neutral way...I just stay there and watch them (don't reach for them, don't call them...). Basically they both learnt to trust me and actually let me pick them up with no problem 90% of the times. My wife didn't understand why bunnies come to me when I want them to...well easy, I don't sit there calling them. I lie down completely (eye level with them) and wait for their curiosity to win

[b]With my first bunn Jake it was allmost instant bond he was sutch a loveable bunn. With ruffin it was different she was more reserved, frightened and needed space to trust humans again but now she is a daddys girl thats why I feel a bit sorry for her now as she cant come and chill in my office because of the phsyco twins. These two and probably Jazz I have bonded with strait away and now Jazz is trying the imposible washing and grooming me. All the bunns are different just like us I find but once bonded its fantastic

For Josephine, it took a month or so. I had recently lost my other rabbit, Jed, and was still grieving for him when I first got her. And Josephine can also be a bit of a stroppy princess, I didn't think she loved me. She lived in my room with me, and then a few weeks ater I had exams, which meant I spent every hour of every day for about two weeks in my room with her. One day she came up and started grooming me, and I knew that my girl loved me as much as I loved her.

I can't remember the exact time for Bruce. When i first got him I focused on trying to develop his relationship with Josephine, but he's always been so friendly and loving.

With Wolfie it was pretty much straight away. He is so cheeky and naughty that you can't fail but to love him - even when he's a ratbag.

With Gloria I really only realised once she was ill and then died. I was devastated and still miss her dreadfully. The garden isn't the same and the whole dynamic of the buns' lives has changed forever.

Felix took a lot longer as I hadn't expected to keep him, then did so because I felt sorry for him and was worried that because of his gummy eye and ever growing peg tooth, the SSPCA might euthanise him. Over the months I have got really close to him because he is so approachable and very very nosy.