It's a laughable subject to me, of course; after 5 years of rescuing human aggressive roosters--huge ones, too-it's only fitting I wind up with a mean doe or two.
Well, Audra isn't really mean; she growls at you and that's the end of that. And she hardly even growls; it's more of a gruff grunt. She and Gale were from a good Jewish friend of ours that raises Alpine, Mini Alpine, and Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats up in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. Her and her family gave Audie and Gale to me along with all their treats, remaining feed, and water bottles, so I gladly obliged and hopefully await a litter out of the two New Zealands. Nova the Californian, however, will pin her ears back and charge at you. Grab her food bowl, she charges you to knock it out of your hand. She digs at you as you try to change her water bottle. She's not very fun for most people, being a 12 pound doe that growls and claws at you. I personally like her, though, and I like to think she likes me, even just a little. Nova was one of the Californian pair I bought from the 2018 fair last year. Atlas the buck is a little pushy, but he's pretty cool. And Nova was actually fine in the first two weeks after I brought her home. I bred her to Atlas and her mood changed. I thought she was pregnant and her crankiness just came from her pregnancy. Nope. Her crankiness came from her. In fact, I can't even get her bred! I personally think she absorbs the babies and puts them in her dewlap. I wouldn't be surprised! The funniest thing is that everybody who has raised both Calis and NZ have warned me NZ are the mean ones. Nope; my NZ just growls! It's my Cali that mauls! I have a healthy respect for all my rabbits, Nova included. Though she can be a royal pain sometimes and she's already chewed through every inch of the hutch she's in (to the point that she chewed a hole in the back wall and her boyfriend actually escaped through it one morning like she evicted him!), I really do like her. Like with the roosters, it's fun having an odd ball and being able to say you have a mean rabbit to the visitors. Its also really fun to see them avoid the mean animal like the plague when it comes around the corner.
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