Dehydrated Bunny?

[TehLizardKing]

I'll try and keep this short..,

Yesterday I bought two young rabbits, one a French Lop, The other an Old English. They both looked fine, bright eyed, shiny coated, and I had seen both eat and drink. On arriving home however, I took the two out of their transport boxes, the Old English started licking my hand profusely.

Now, these two are probably the most tame rabbits I have ever seen at this age, and not even scared of my huge legbar cock when he almost went for them.

When I woke up this morning, the Old English was doing the same thing as yesterday. She just licked my hand as soon as it came near her, and didn't stop until I moved a considerable distance away. I have heard of bunnies licking hands for the salt, or to seal relationships, but never for this long. I thought maybe she hadn't been weaned properly, or was dehydrated for some reason.

I then let her lick my hand while dribbling water down it, just in case she was in need of liquid, and her behaviour didn't change.

Now I hope I am just overreacting, and she may just be a really lovely bunny, but it would settle my mind if someone would be kind enough to get back to me and inform me of the truth.

Thanks

 

[SA Farm]

Mostly it's a baby behavior as far as I know. Most of my kits love to lick and nibble fingers, hands, arms, clothes, etc. If you've seen her eat and drink, it's probably just a normal behavior for her.

 

[TehLizardKing]

Thank you so much! It would have been horrible to lose a rabbit like that...she's so lovely lol.