It’s impossible to know what he wants😆

Video for video/bun tax. (ignore the sand. It spilled from the blue sandbox, I hadn’t had time to sweep it up)

So to the text post/about the title:

Today I came home from work. Sat down and greetd him. But waited for him to come up to me. He came and sniffed me a bit and digged at my clothes. Then went to sit a meter away from me, stared at me, and gave me a light thump.

Now in normal rabbit behaviour a thump means angry, or maybe even ”leave me alone”. But what this little tyrant wanted was for me to pet him💀

I went to him and petted him and immediatly he loafed up and was like ”yeah😌 That’s better”.

Like excuse me?😂 He commands me how he wants to be petted.

Then he cleaned himself so I left him alone again/stopped petting.

After he came up to me and nipped at my shirt (almost made a hole😬) and digged at my hand. So I took my one hand to pet him. But he still kept digging at my other hand. So I took BOTH my hand and petted his head. And again he was like ”yeah thats better😌”.

He also has a thing where he wants me to cup his head (like make a cave for it with my hands). And sometimes when I ”don’t make the cave right” (for example have my hands too far down his ears so both eyes aren’t covered), he pushes his head up again and nudges my hand until I find the position where it is ”just right”.

It isn’t even the same way each time. Sometimes he wants his ears covered. Sometimes his right eye. Sometimes both eyes. Sometimes my both hands on his head.

Like…idk. It’s just funny how he wants me to pet him just like he wants it.

But I guess it makes sense as well. I mean he can’t talk to communicate. So he has to resort to nudging me or digging at me to signal he wants pets/that I am petting him ”wrong”.

And the thump today was the cherry on top. All the rabbit articles online I wouldn’t have thought that thump means ”pet me”💀.

(He wasn’t mad I was gone. I had been just away 2 hours, so I don’t think that was it. I really think he thumped just to signal ”hey! pet me”.).