We adopted our Harvey Rabbit about 3 months ago now from a rescue shelter and in 2 weeks he is booked in to be neutered with the view to prevent any antisocial behaviour from him. After this we were thinking of considering a second bunny. He is so incredibly sociable and has bonded with myself and my boyfriend incredibly quickly and as most of the time one of us is always home he will always either be on our laps or by our feet! We haven’t got a definite age guess bar a vague guess he’s a ‘younger’ rabbit (definitely an adult though), hoping the vet can give us a better idea. But basically we are hoping for harvey to have a long and healthy life and both being at the start of our careers we don’t know what the future has in store and whether we are both going to be in the position where more often than not one of us is home. And I would absolutely hate for Harvey to ever be lonely! He does get a bit jealous of the cat and will nudge and climb all over one of us if we are giving her and fuss and not him, and I have never felt like he isn’t content with his ‘rabbit companion free’ life.
Can anyone give me any advice? If so has anyone ever found their rabbit simply won’t bond with any rabbit? There is a large rabbit rescue near us (where we got Harvey from) and they offer to do the first stage of bonding ‘on site’ but I don’t know whether this would be a good or a bad thing. But being first time bunny owners we would sort of lean towards a more experienced person helping out.
He is an english spot cross, I would describe him as a bit nutty in the sense that he is constantly busy doing something, whether it’s running around like a lunatic or treating us like a climbing frame! Could this potentially intimidating for a potential new ‘buddy’? He is never contained in a cage despite having access to one. Would it be best to lean towards a bunny with an excitable nature like him or a more chilled rabbit? I rung a lady locally who has ‘rabbit sat’ for us and she commented on how nutty he is and made a comment that it could make the bonding process difficult as he would easily intimidate another rabbit. Is there any truth behind this?
Of course Harvey has only been with us for 3 months and still finds everything very exciting so we were thinking he may calm down slightly when everything becomes much more ‘normal’ for him. So is it best maybe to wait until this time and see how he is after he is neutered?
Thankyou in advance