Runestonez
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We finally managed to bond our two boys!
We took our sweet time doing itmind you...but we were so cautious because it was two MALES!
I've now come to the conclusion the two boys must have thought we were nuts!:biggrin2:
We have had Guffy since he was 8 weeks old and we got Darwin 3 weeks after that...they used to live side by side and play together each night until they started to reach 4months and began to circle and chase each other.
We seperated the two...so they would still play in the same room but with an exercise pen dividing it down the middle. At the end of every night we would let them together to play for a while unless they started to chase each other, then we would put them away in their seperate hutchs.
We sent them in to the vet to be neutered around the beginning of December...so we have kept them apart except to play for the last hour of the night before they go to bed...we let them do this for about a month...watching to be sure they didn't chase or circle...if they did we would seperate them and if it continued we would break them up for the night and put them to bed! Before we started to try bonding we wanted to be sure there weren't going to be any hormone issues making things harder for us!
Then we let them out to play together during the day, for the whole day, they were fine. No problems...so they next day we did it again. Still all good.
So on Sunday I tore their seperate houses apart and made one large 2x2, with 4 floors, and moved them in together. Removed the divider in the room.
So today is Wednesday...and they have beenliving/playing together for 4 days...its actually a little weird...they don't circle or chase, no humping and for the life of me there doesn't seem to be a dominant bunn...:shock:
For all the bonding we have done we have never seen this. We have had 1 love at first sight, loads of bunny dating but never two bunns who just seem so darned happy to be together! More like roomates really. But you can't deny how truly HAPPY they are now!
I am so glad it seems to have worked out with the two! Now I have another week to leave them together and make sure all is well before I move them out of the nursery into the livingroom with our other bunns!
Running total:
-10 bunnies all together
-out of those...we have 2 bonded pairs with the potential for 2 more bonds.
-and the potential for a triplet too.
Is it bad all I can think of is...10 litterboxes...minus two bonded pairs equals 2 less litterboxes! And if I can bond two more pairs...2 less litterboxes! I could potentially cut my litterboxes down to 5!:faint:
Danielle:biggrin2:
We took our sweet time doing itmind you...but we were so cautious because it was two MALES!
I've now come to the conclusion the two boys must have thought we were nuts!:biggrin2:
We have had Guffy since he was 8 weeks old and we got Darwin 3 weeks after that...they used to live side by side and play together each night until they started to reach 4months and began to circle and chase each other.
We seperated the two...so they would still play in the same room but with an exercise pen dividing it down the middle. At the end of every night we would let them together to play for a while unless they started to chase each other, then we would put them away in their seperate hutchs.
We sent them in to the vet to be neutered around the beginning of December...so we have kept them apart except to play for the last hour of the night before they go to bed...we let them do this for about a month...watching to be sure they didn't chase or circle...if they did we would seperate them and if it continued we would break them up for the night and put them to bed! Before we started to try bonding we wanted to be sure there weren't going to be any hormone issues making things harder for us!
Then we let them out to play together during the day, for the whole day, they were fine. No problems...so they next day we did it again. Still all good.
So on Sunday I tore their seperate houses apart and made one large 2x2, with 4 floors, and moved them in together. Removed the divider in the room.
So today is Wednesday...and they have beenliving/playing together for 4 days...its actually a little weird...they don't circle or chase, no humping and for the life of me there doesn't seem to be a dominant bunn...:shock:
For all the bonding we have done we have never seen this. We have had 1 love at first sight, loads of bunny dating but never two bunns who just seem so darned happy to be together! More like roomates really. But you can't deny how truly HAPPY they are now!
I am so glad it seems to have worked out with the two! Now I have another week to leave them together and make sure all is well before I move them out of the nursery into the livingroom with our other bunns!
Running total:
-10 bunnies all together
-out of those...we have 2 bonded pairs with the potential for 2 more bonds.
-and the potential for a triplet too.
Is it bad all I can think of is...10 litterboxes...minus two bonded pairs equals 2 less litterboxes! And if I can bond two more pairs...2 less litterboxes! I could potentially cut my litterboxes down to 5!:faint:
Danielle:biggrin2:
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