Hello! I am looking for a bit of advice. My minilop Mac is terrified of being picked up. The woman I got him from said he had been socialized and was used to being picked up, but it doesn't really seem so. He will let us pet him in the cage, but when we pick him up he scrambles like mad. Even once we have him close to us and are holding him tight he still squirms a lot.

When we put him down on the floor, he only wants to get away from us. We don't want to let him get too far out of our sight because he pees and poops if we aren't looking.

Does anyone have any advice for calming him down when we pick him up? I want to be able to take him out of the cage so he can wander, but I do not want to stress the little guy out.

Thanks!