Bonding 2 female bunnies?

[TheBunnyGirl]

 Hi!

I have 2 female bunnies buttons (spayed, 2 years old) and lindt (unspayed 2 months old) and buttons wants to be ‘top bun’ and chases lindt round the room, any advice how to bond them?

Thanx

Ella and the bunnies.

[Deleted User]

Bonding usually starts after both rabbits have been altered, even though some baby buns enjoy the company of an older altered rabbit. If I were you I’d do close sessions with the two in the meantime, but housing them separately until 1 month after Lindt’s spay. A close session would be for example having both rabbits on your lap and stroking them to get them calm with each other.
–how long has Buttons been spayed?

[Beka27]

Yes, you can try to do what Petzy said: very small, supervised sessions together, but if they are already showing aggressive behaviors towards each other, you might be better off just waiting.

Has Lindt been spayed for a long time? I’m concerned that she’s already being rough with the baby bunny. It sounds like she may give you a difficult time during the bonding process.

[skibunny8503]

LOL Good Luck! That’s all I can say since we haven’t been doing very well with bonding. It’s hard around the holidays, we’ve been to busy. When we first put them together they really wanted to attack each other. We eventually did a long car ride and took them in the basement and they only bit each other once! Also I recommend having the cages next to each other to get used to them before doing bonding sessions. Right now we’re waiting until the holiday is over. But we’re comfortable if we have to keep them separated. BTW, we have a male and female bonded and a female, so we actually doing a trio but we have to bond the females first.

[KytKattin]

Gah! Girls are the word that rhymes with ‘witches’! I have two girls that I’m just not going to even try to bond. They still, after 4 or more months, go at each other through the bars when they can. I don’t even dare let them out at the same time. I think Nova instigates it, but Eclipse isn’t afraid to bite back! I actually have a similar situation to skibunny, but none of my bunnies live together (health problems on part of the male prevent him from being with Nova). Good luck to you! Hopefully your Buttons isn’t like my Eclipse; I really think that Eclipse wants to be an only rabbit. Her previous owner said she has always been a little rough around the edges with other buns, but she could bond with enough patience. This forum knows a lot of tricks! And you are probably braver than I am so I believe in you! (and yes, I’m aware that my post was not helpful in any way)

[Deleted User]

Posted By KytKattin on 12/18/2009 10:04 PM
Gah! Girls are the word that rhymes with ‘witches’! I have two girls that I’m just not going to even try to bond. They still, after 4 or more months, go at each other through the bars when they can. I don’t even dare let them out at the same time. I think Nova instigates it, but Eclipse isn’t afraid to bite back!

You’re not going to try? I find that the aggression through cage bars is often very bad and escalating over time. Rabbits are the most protective over a caged space because it is so intimately theirs.  I personally don’t believe in housing rabbits closely beside one another for that reason.

If you were thinking of trying to bond Nova and Eclipse, I would not let them have access to each other through bars since that has triggered aggression already. You would want to remove them from each other’s sight and after a cooling-off period start re-introducing them in a small new place in short meetings with stressors.

I know, you weren’t asking for advice… but I just wanted to say that I do not believe the cage bar fighting is indicative of being unbondable.

 

[TheBunnyGirl]

haven’t been on here 4 a while, time for an update! I am trying BB’s method of putting the buns in an unknown area to them both and getting them to bond there, then moving on to a normal place, then near the hutch, then the hutch. We may be moving the bunnies into our garage soon, (don’t worry! It’s WAY WAY WAY to hot out side for them, an excuse to have them inside all day! our garage is newly built, clean, open and light, and also heaps cooler, we have just recently finished building our new house so there is still sand outside where the bunnies housing is so we can’t use fans out there, so the fans’ll be in with the buns in the garage.) So Buttons’s cage is having a mega clean, with vinegar and hutch clean, to get rid of the smell. hop-fully the change will make her less territorial so she might accept her new friend . I got them lying next to each other being patted, still no snuggling if i get up, and leave the room (always keeping an eye on them) buttons thinks I’m not watching her and might nip poor little Lindty. I have seen a definite improvement through their behaviour and Buttons has calmed down a lot since her op. Very sorry i have not updated for a while, determined to bond these bunnies!

from
Ella and The Bunnies.

[TheBunnyGirl]

 WE HAVE PROGRESS! buttons and lindt where on the bunny cushion, and I made buttons and lindt snuggle up, and to make sure buttons did not nip, i quickly patted buttons on the head and she relaxed. she nibbled lindt! i feel they are getting along better already.

[TheBunnyGirl]

i dont no if this’ll show up at all, but its worth a shot!
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[TheBunnyGirl]

no photo! l’ii find out how to get 1 up.

[boogercj]

Sounds like everything’s coming along. Do you have a “Photobucket” account or similar picture/video sharing sites? You can upload to that and link to it from here using the “Insert Picture” button

[TheBunnyGirl]

Hi! Just got one actually! I don’t know where the insert button is so i wonder if i drag it here it’ll work.BUT on second thoughts, I thought I might make a Bunny journal one instead, because this was origanly a question. Bonding buttons and lindt, it’ll be called. all progress and photos, movies will be added there.

[TheBunnyGirl]

Bonding Buttons & Lindt

bonding journal.
lets see if this works

[TheBunnyGirl]

Amazing! it does! im learning here!

Bonding buttons and lindt

[Veiji]

I’m having trouble with my Buns as well. The 6 week old is more of the one doing it. My home bunny (3 to 4 years old) is gentle and very tolerable towards the little one. Sniffing her and she runs circles around her cage. But the little one will nip at her. We recently tried putting them together, but the little one went after the old one from behind, pulled out fur and the old one ran to me to protect her. I tried to spray her with the bottle to stop her from attacking her but she continued. I couldn’t tell if she was mounting her or attacking her but the older bun, who had bonded with two rabbits before, ran away and didn’t attack her. I can’t tell if their behavior towards each other is good or bad. Cause the older one seems to be okay with her and will run around her, lay next to her and everything.

[sarahthegemini]

Posted By Veiji on 3/07/2017 8:24 PM

I’m having trouble with my Buns as well. The 6 week old is more of the one doing it. My home bunny (3 to 4 years old) is gentle and very tolerable towards the little one. Sniffing her and she runs circles around her cage. But the little one will nip at her. We recently tried putting them together, but the little one went after the old one from behind, pulled out fur and the old one ran to me to protect her. I tried to spray her with the bottle to stop her from attacking her but she continued. I couldn’t tell if she was mounting her or attacking her but the older bun, who had bonded with two rabbits before, ran away and didn’t attack her. I can’t tell if their behavior towards each other is good or bad. Cause the older one seems to be okay with her and will run around her, lay next to her and everything.

Why are you bonding a 6 week old with an adult??

[LittlePuffyTail]

Hi, Veiji and welcome to BB. We ask members to please not respond to old threads (this one is from 2009) since it causes confusion.

Please start a new thread with your questions. You will get more responses this way. Thanks

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