Bonding Advice (kinda weird situation)

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Waffles505

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Hi, so I am trying to bond my bunnies pancakes and waffles. I have had waffles for 3 years now, she is spayed and absolutely the light of my life :) Word has kind of spread in my area that I'm "the bunny lady" so almost a year ago, a took in a bunny for a friend. His awful ex-girlfriend bought a bunny from a petstore (ugh) and then after a few months got uninterested and just dumped him. So i took him in but he was/is unneutered. He's a spunky dwarf bunny and i introduced him (now renamed pancakes) and waffles in neutral territory and they actually got along for quite some time, but then during the second or third introduction pancake's unneutering turned to him humping waffles and it not being a good time for anyone. I have since started keeping pancakes caged mostly with supervised daily run-around time in a different room, but he is caged in the room where waffles runs free all the time. So they are familiar and know each other and I have switched their cages a couple times so they can really live with another bunny's scent and all that. Pancake is scheduled to be neutered within a few days though (I know i need to wait a month for the hormones to subside) but are there any tips on how to proceed? they are already quite familiar and I also happen to be moving in two months and them being bonded would make the process a lot better for everyone :)

PS one slight issue, Waffles is a pretty bossy lady, and tonight and one night last week, when i give both of them their pellet dishes, Waffles would get very angry when I would feed Pancakes, even though she already got her food first. This happens very seldomly so I'm not sure if it's a real issue, but she can be rather bossy/territorial
 
I would wait until you have moved so there is a neutral area for them to be introduced again, and until they are bonded not give anyone run time in a different area than their bondign zone (if that makes any sense.)

I'm moving soon as well and is one reason I got my bunny now, so when we move we can intro him to the other two we have.
 
that does make sense. I'm either moving them 9 hours or a mere 20 minutes, its all rather up in the air. graduating from college is both stressful on me and my bunnies, who knew?
I just feel bad not bonding them before, I have one bunny cage that works as a nice travel cage (its the cage I had waffles as a baby in, but is still quite sizable), and then i have the cage Pancakes came in, which is actually a hamster cage because her original owner sucks (and if i ever meet her i will have very many stern words for her.) I also do have a very nice large cage for waffles but its a two floor cage so putting it in a car to travel doesn't work (so you know I'm not a bad bunny parent!)

I love them each very much, its just the bonding and travel that stresses me out. My current apartment has plenty of space that neither bunny has charted, is it possible to bond them within a month? or should i just not stress and wait until I move and do the entire process then, even though theyre already familiar?
 

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