sweet treats

bunny has been struggling with us holding her

if we don't have a bottle in our hands then 

she pushes, hits, and screams to get away from our hold 

this is the only 'holding' she doesn't like 

so i spoke to a dear friend of mine and one 

i consider a 'professional expert' 

she said i should consider using deborah gray's advise of 

a sweet treat 

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basically when bunny is calm when we are holding her

we  put something sweet in her mouth 

(the suggestion is M&M's but we use agave)

bunny will link sweet (aka good stuff) to us holding her 

we also looked at when and what we are doing when we hold her 

we usually give her a bottle and then to sleep

 we thought perhaps this is a trigger 

now we are holding her at different times of the day 

so she wont link it to any certain event that follows 

it is helping though not 100%