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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS > BONDING > From Trio to Quartet
Last Post by Petzy at 02/22/2010 12:07 PM (35 Replies)
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User is Offline Petzy
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02/02/2010 04:26 AM
Jersey -- not bossy! not at all. The other quartet was one step up and two steps back to begin with, had 2 similar-looking lops in it, my camera was not loading for a month, I hardly knew the rabbits, and the use of initials added to the mess.

Monkey, it didn't matter much who went in first for me. If you want to make a choice based on anything, I personally would always put the girlbun in last.
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User is Offline jerseygirl
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02/07/2010 03:42 PM
Now this is funny Petzy...I've been meaning to ask in this thread about certain bonds. Your adding of Deirdra and Lint pics in the other thread has somewhat answered it. So I was wondering if with your quartett, if you see stronger bonds between Deirdra/Lint and Mops/Neigey? (Along the lines of the theory "the harder bonds often become the closer bonds")
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User is Offline Petzy
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02/07/2010 05:17 PM
Rabbits are so complicated. I don't know which ones are the closest, honestly. With Neigey now things have shifted again. I force the Neigey/Mops bond and the Deirdra/Lint bond a little along by separating them smometimes into those two respective pairs for a few hours. This has helped.
In a nutshell my quartet works like this: On ocasions, Deirdra will chase Mops (to mount him), Mops will chase Neigey (to get space from him), Neigey will chase Lint (to bug him) and Lint will chase Deirdra (because she is big)... but after a few seconds the chasing is over and they are snuggling again. Everybunny grooms everybunny. There is no litterbox or food competition.
I can't say the harder the bond the closer it will be. The easy bonds certainly make for very close rabbits. I'd like to say the harder bonds make interesting relationships.
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User is Offline Petzy
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02/16/2010 07:22 AM

Jerseygirl, your question got me thinking about the quality of the different bonds between my four. It is hard to spot when mine are all together, they are very peaceful and loving with each other. But there were some poowars going on and I couldn't figure out who left them. This is a whole new challenge when you're dealing with multiples: you never know who's to blame.

I can put Deirdra and Mops together and there will be no stray littering, the same goes for Deirdra and Lint, Deirdra and Neigey, Mops and Neigey, and Lint and Mops. But for the first time yesterday since the bonding has been completed, I put Lint with Neigey, just the two, in the exercise area.

--This is what Lint did, he is Julius Caesar of the poowars.

I am hopeful he will give these wars up in the future.

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User is Offline Monkeybun
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02/16/2010 02:33 PM
Its amazing how much poo can come out of one little rabbit....

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02/22/2010 12:07 PM

Poowars have settled. I want to end with an image other than one of stray littering!

Here they are, 7 weeks after moving in together, 13 weeks after I began bonding Neigey to my trio.

(*note to Jerseygirl: maybe you are right about the harder bonds resulting in closer friendships)

 

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