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Forum BONDING 2nd *VIDEO Update! What’s going on here??

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    • CharliePebblets
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        HI again!!! So here’s another video of our bunnies – things are still going GREAT – but remember how I said that Charlie would always run away from Penny when he’d try to mount her?  WELL, that’s was NOT the case tonight!! For whatever reason – she just let him do it!  For a LONG time – over about an hour – off and on again – stopping for eating and grooming and pooping – and circling etc.. What I need to know is – he keeps doing something that I can’t tell what it is.  He’ll hump her for a bit – then he kind of bites her back haunches – and grunts a bit – and then flips off her onto the ground.. ?????  is this love bites?  is he in pain?  is he enjoying it?  I have about 3 videos but I put up this one (it’s about 5 minutes) – because simply – it’s FUNNY – my daughter was doing the text to speech thing on her ipad – and doing a commentary of what the bunnies were doing.. so you can hear this computer voice from off in the distance saying stuff – and me laughing..  He does the first bite and grunt thing at about 24 seconds in – (and the computer voice is going “Humping bunnies – alert humping bunnies”) And he does it again at around 2:33 (computer voice saying “Grunt says the male.. ” LOL ) You can’t really hear the grunt – but sort of – it kind of reminds me of a muffled sneeze without the ‘choo’ part at the end.. (does that make any sense??)

        So my question is – What is he doing ?? and is it ok to let it continue?? at one point I think I noticed a tuft of Charlie’s fur in his mouth after a nipping grunting thing..   Anyway, here’s the video.. enjoy and let me know your thoughts!! Thanks!!!!!!!

         


      • tanlover14
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          Penny is simply trying to establish his dominance over Charlie. As long as there is no flat-out biting, I’d let it continue.

          As my bunnies bonded more, the humping went down. As a newer bond I’m not surprised they are doing this, ahah! If Charlie begins to be agitated by it and shows any aggression I would gently push Penny off.


        • Stickerbunny
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            What is going on, from my perspective :

            The white bunny is humping for dominance. The nipping / hair in mouth is from holding on to the neck area with their mouth while humping. The flipping on to ground thing, well, when Powder did that… there was usually a sticky spot on Stickers back where he’d been humping (and still is, since he does it occasionally)…it’s kinda just “ok i’m done for now, now what ya gonna do?”. The multi color bunny is trying to ask for grooming, which the other doesn’t want to give, as a dominant bun is supposed to be the groom demanding one. So, they’re still trying to work out their pecking order.

            As long as there is no skin breaking or serious biting, let them work it out on their own. Looks like there is at least some submitting, so progress!

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