Experienced rabbit people know it's just a passing phase, but if this is your first bunny and you brought her home last spring, you are seeing a number of transitions and personality changes. Your Easter bunny is now a teenager. You have learned that you are living with an intelligent creature, who is curious about the world and investigates it with her teeth and toenails.

This is the time of year that many of last Easter's impulse buys wind up in animal shelters. But that won't happen to your Easter bunny, because you are willing to learn how to cope with rabbit adolescence. A previous article "Rebel With Paws" will guide you through this difficult period.

Rabbit adolescence is one of several phases that you will see in your rabbit. Other stages also include behavior changes. Some changes are obviously age related. Others are more obscure.

*Text used with permission of the House Rabbit Society.

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