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- 09/26/2016 at 5:14 PM
  JR
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  I have two rabbits – brothers – they’re now 4-5 months old. I’ve noticed lately that one rabbit is often chasing the other, nibbling the centre of his back and attempting to mount him. The other is always trying to run away from this and must be well cheesed off.
  
  It’s not all of the time, and in fact is hardly any of the time, but it is happening.
  
  Should I let this continue and sort itself out? I know it’s part of them deciding who’s the boss, but I don’t want them to come to any harm.
  
  They’ve not been neutered.
- 09/27/2016 at 1:15 AM
  LongEaredLions
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  It is around this age that rabbits enter the “teenage stage” where they develop hormones that can often cause them to be quite unpredictable. It’s generally not a good idea to try to have a bonded pair of bunnies, no matter the sex, for this reason.
  I would seperate your bunnies until you have the sexes checked an them neutered. Any fights now could deter them from bonding in the future. Once they have been fixed+1 month, you can go about bonding them.
- 09/27/2016 at 5:45 AM
  JR
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  I don’t understand what you mean when you say it’s not a good idea to have a bonded pair of bunnies?
  
  They are both definitely male, that was shown to me when I purchased them.
- 09/27/2016 at 6:53 AM
  tobyluv
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  You definitely should separate your bunnies now, then re-bond them after they have had their neuter surgeries. Rabbits can severely injure each other when they fight, plus they may come to dislike each other so much that you will never get them to bond later. They got along fine at first because they were babies, but when the hormones come flooding in, that changes everything and they should not be together now until after their neuters. You should wait a month after the surgeries before you start re-bonding them. It can take that long for the hormones to be flushed out of their bodies.
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