Hey I need some help with bonding.
Also I want to say that I am very sorry for being so bad with replying. I didn’t do it on purpose. I’m just terrible at it. I’m sorry.
Okay so I adopted two new buns from bad situations last week.
That means I now have three buns altogether as I have Luna. Have had her for over a year. She is my little baby.
Anyway so the first bunny I adopted last week is named Calliope. A woman was rehoming her due to her young son having been trying to kill her. He attempted to twice. And he already killed her beta fish. And she locks her hamster up in her room so he cannot get the hamster. He was diagnosed with an attachment disorder and if he doesn’t get the help he needs he could start killing humans later in life, not that killing animals is not just as bad as it is.
She is a very sweet bun but hates children due to the abuse and will bite them.
And then the other bunny I adopted after her is Ginger. She is not spayed and came to me with an eye infection and sore hocks and nails that were so long it was sad.
I bought her from a lady who didn’t want her anymore. Ginger had been used for breeding her while life and now that she was five, she didn’t want her anymore and wanted to either have someone buy her for 10 dollars or trade her in for another doe. How sad. They didn’t care about her. And the condition she was in shows that. She also wasn’t a pet. She was a ‘farm’ animal. :'( so she has no idea what it’s like to be a pet.
Anyway, I wanted to get another bun so I could bond Luna to that bun but when I saw these two bunnies I got them knowing it may not even work with Luna but I didn’t care as long as I saved them from bad situations.
I tried to let calliope and luna say hi through their pens. Luna didn’t like her and bit her nose and then Calliope got defensive and then didn’t like luna so she bit her nose in return.
So I thought I would wait a while and try again in a different way. Plus I was doing that too soon…. The day I got Calliope. and luna is an alpha and calliope is in her territory as luna ‘owns’ my place lol. She is the alpha here.
Anyway today, over a week later I swspped their cages and had Luna in calliopes and visa versa. They were being so cute and seemed so intrigued and curious. So soon when I was going to switch them I let them say hi in Luna’s enclosure. But I was holding calliope while I did this. Luna slow walked over getting ready to bite her so I gently pushed her away and took calliope back to her enclosure.
So does this mean that there is no way they will be able to bond? I know I am not doing it exactly how it should be done. I was thinking of getting a big box and sitting them both in it but I am honestly scare Calliope or luna will attack each other. What do I do?
Also earlier I went to go see ginger the third bun, and she tried to hump me and peed on me so I am taking her to get spayed soon. Well sometimes after I sew ginger I go see Calliope right after and that never made Calliope upset. Well this time was different. She coils Snell the scent of Ginger and of course didn’t like it. But I changed my pants that Ginger had peed on but maybe she could still smell it? Idk. That’s the only thing that happened different when I saw Ginger this time. But Calliope but me really hard on the hand but didn’t draw blood. But it raised the skin area and made it look irritated and then she bit me on the chest because she didn’t like the smell on my jacket. I had been holding Ginger. I just looked and saw she actually broke the skin on my chest. And took out a good chunk of skin. I cannot be upset at her, she doesn’t know Any better.
Also Gingers and Calliopes cage are right next to each other but I have a sheet covering in between so they cannot say hi to each other. And have something else blocking in between. But before when I didn’t (they couldn’t reach each other) calliope was angry she was so close to Ginger. Well she wanted to attack her. So that’s why I put the sheet up.
So does it sound like Calliope won’t be able to bond at all with Luna? Or can it take time and should I wait and see and do it in a different place that isn’t my home? Like go to a friends house and try to have a bonding session outside?
And does it sound like she won’t be able to bond with Ginger either?
I just don’t want to rehome calliope. :'( it would make me so sad.
I really don’t want anymore buns unless they bond with luna. But I love calliope! :'(
Heeeeelp
Also does this all make me sound like a bad pet momma?