I have a neutered male and spayed female, both done 6 weeks ago. It seems like her hormones have died down completely, but he is still honking at her and trying to mount her.
Their bonding is going okay but it is taking longer than I expected, I'm wondering if I'm not doing it right? For the past 3 weeks I've been keeping them in separate rooms and giving them time together every day in the hallway (neutral and with access to both of their rooms). There is no aggression and she seems to like him, I've even seen her groom him a couple of times. At the beginning she was mounting him but she seems to have stopped that. You can see in her body language that she's relaxing and expecting him to groom her, but he is more interested in her back end. It doesn't help that he's not a very licky rabbit.
I've also allowed them to go into each others' rooms and neither of them has a problem with that.
At night they're both shut in their own rooms and can't see each other- I'm wondering if I should move one to the hall with a baby gate between them so they are in constant contact?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Their bonding is going okay but it is taking longer than I expected, I'm wondering if I'm not doing it right? For the past 3 weeks I've been keeping them in separate rooms and giving them time together every day in the hallway (neutral and with access to both of their rooms). There is no aggression and she seems to like him, I've even seen her groom him a couple of times. At the beginning she was mounting him but she seems to have stopped that. You can see in her body language that she's relaxing and expecting him to groom her, but he is more interested in her back end. It doesn't help that he's not a very licky rabbit.
I've also allowed them to go into each others' rooms and neither of them has a problem with that.
At night they're both shut in their own rooms and can't see each other- I'm wondering if I should move one to the hall with a baby gate between them so they are in constant contact?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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