So yeah... the bad news is, I hard-core failed at this whole "blog" thing, seeing as the whole purpose is to provide updates for something as it's going on. The good news is that as of last Saturday, I have a bonded trio. You wouldn't believe it, but I actually missed the HUGE turning point that sealed the deal officially! I was going to sleep in the bunny pen for the whole night just in case (went to bed in the late afternoon, actually - sleeping schedule was off, as usual) but got cold and uncomfortable after an hour or so and decided to snuggle up in an actual bed. I didn't want to end the marathon session when we were 99% there, so I left the bedroom door open and asked Jay to keep an ear on them.
I knew he'd be going to bed in 4-5 hours but I was exhausted and didn't feel like giving him a run-down on what I thought he should do when he did based on where the bunnies were at when he was ready to sleep, so I said f--- it and went to sleep. I'm paranoid as hell/very overprotective where my bunns are concerned and he has virtually no "learned" knowledge about bunny bonding (ie he's never done a lick of research)... but he's spent the last nine months watching my bunnies like a hawk, trying to get into their heads and figure them out - as a result, he's a skilled interpreter of "bunny language". He also watched a lot of their bonding sessions with me and we've talked about all of them afterward. Between those two things combined, I realized I finally felt 110% comfortable leaving a major decision that could affect my bunnies safety completely up to him... so I did.
Anyway, I'll get into the details later, but the 1% hesitation I had was that Normie's "I just don't give a f---" attitude still hadn't been put in check by the girls - Gaz had tried countless times by humping the heck out of him, but apparently he didn't respect her authority... and Nala was continuing to tolerate him in "silence" when he overlooked subtle cues that she didn't like what he was up to. I kept waiting to see her snap and put him in his place and was starting to think it might never happen (hence the thought that Normie might end up top bunn). Turns out, she just had a *really* long fuse - around 11 pm on Saturday, Jay walked out into the living room and caught her putting him in check! Jay had also felt like that's what desperately needed to happen with the three, so once it did, he decided he could join me in bed.
The bunns have been together ever since
