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Forum BONDING Introducing new bunnies into cage?

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    • Rebelbun
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        My babies are two months old now (as of yesterday) and I noticed one of the boys trying to mount the side of his mama. I decided now would be a good time to seperate the males and females. I’m not good at sexing so I hope I’m right about who’s male and female D: I use giant dog kennels for them when I’m not home and I wanted to put the males in with their daddy and leave the females with mommy. Dozer (daddy) doesnt seem to enjoy this idea very much though because he hasn’t had to share his “bed” before. He keeps chasing them put of his cage. Dozer is neutered now and I think it may be because he hasn’t had much interaction with them except through the cages because he was a little too aggressive with them before he was neutered and I didn’t want him to hurt them. He’s a month past his surgery now so I was hoping he wouldnt be territorial. He doesn’t chase them while theure out of his bed but he just doesn’t like them in his bed. He’s not hurting them, just chasing them out. Right now I have the baby boys in a smaller bunny cage I had for just missy when she was little but it’s too small for them.
        Is there anyway I can get Dozer to stop being territorial ? I definitely don’t want to put them in his bed and have the poor things get hurt. They are a little timid of him anyways cause he’s a lot bigger than their mom lol. They have been submitted to him so I know they aren’t attacking him or anything.
        I was going to try to just let them out together for a few days and let Dozer get use to the idea. I am hoping that works, but does anyone else have any ideas?

        Thanks!


      • vanessa
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          How many males and females do you have? My bunnies had about 36 babies before I had them neutered/fixed. Unfortunately, I think you need to separate dozer from the young males. Rabbits can become unbonded very quickly. One of my females was separated from her babies for a week. She kept hanging out next to their cage so I thought she missed them. I put one of the babies back in with her and she tried to attack it. She had been hanging out next to it because she wanted to fight… rabbits can forget eachother very quickly, and need to be bonded from scratch, after that happens. All rabbits can be terretorial. Even after being spayed/neutered. I kept the baby girls together, and kept each baby male separately, otherwise they got to an age where they started to fight. The males started to fight at about 4 months old. They wanted to fight eachother, and their dad. And their sisters whom they had forgotten. When my baby boys tried to fight with their spayed dad through the cage, he clawed them and left a large gash on one of the babie’s faces. So I kept them separately after that. It sounds as if dozer isn’t quite bonded with them, and they will get to an age where they start to attack him. It sounds as if you are at the point of finding new homes for your bunnies. Is your female spayed? I would get her spayed, wait a month, and then start bonding dozer and the female again.


        • Rebelbun
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            They grew up In a cage right next to Dozers cage. They don’t like not know each other, but they didn’t have physical contact besides through the cage. Dozer seems like he wants to play with them when they’re all out of the cage. He just pushes them out of his cage. The last couple days he hasn’t been really chasing them out. He just walks over to sniff them and the baby will run away or to the other side of the cage (Diesel has decided he’s going to move in his cage sooner rather than later lol). I wanted to start keeping them seperated from the girls cause they keep chasing them, but they aren’t doing it to each other or Dozer yet.
            I think I have 2 girls and 3 boys.


          • vanessa
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              It’s good that they are still gettign along. There will come a time when they need to be separated. What do you plan on doing with the babies?


            • Rebelbun
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                My Bf wants to keep them. I was going to get all the boys neutered as soon as I can but I keep reading about rabbits not waking up after surgery and I can’t stand to think of any of them dying like that.


              • Rebelbun
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                  Good news! Dozer has decided to be friends with the baby boys and they’re living together comfortably for now at least.


                • vanessa
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                    Glad to hear they are getting along. If you want to keep them together, there will come a time when you have to either fix them, or separate them. They will start to fight at some poiont in time. If you keep them separate, you don’t need to have them fixed. It reduces urine odor, and spraying. My males stopped spraying alltogether after I fixed them. They used to spray me waist-high! There is one person on this forum who had a bunny die during a procedure. However, it isn’t that common, and I woudn’t worry about it. I was also concerned when I took my bunnies in. The smaller the animal, the larger the risk. But in general, it is much less common these days than it use to be. I had 4 of my bunnies fixed. I’m also glad I let them have a few litters each and experience a complete bunny life 🙂 But my gosh…. the false pregnancies of an unspayed female, and the crazy spraying of an unfixed male. That’s what I don’t miss. My females dug crazy huge dens, made nests everywhere they could, plucked hair to line the nests – for false pregnancies. The males sprayed everything. The other bunnies, me, everything. My white female was spotty from all the spraying. Ick.

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