wow - what a Saturday! It sounds like your little boy is hellbent on being in charge.

It will be interesting to see if Fujoe's less territorial home. Hareiette is the opposite, she's pretty mellow when bonding out of the house, but turns into a grunting she-bunny beast at home!

The volunteer mentioned that Dana acting differently around you and Fujoe, it doesn't surprise me I really think that pets pick US, and my guess is she already knows that you and Fujoe are going to be her family. I've seen some bunnies personalities change dynamically when the right family / bunny comes in to the adoption show! Also, in regards to what binky said - it's true, we pick the first rabbit and they pick all the rest!

Let us know how date two goes this weekend :-)

wow! It seems like a fun time =) Very eventful. Hope everything on Saturday works out!

Hey everyone! so we ended up getting another bunny.. her name is Patina! She's a dwarf of some sort.. not really sure what type. So the bonding session went really well at the shelter, but when we tried to bond them here, Fujoe went crazy with the mounting again. This time Patina is taking it very well. There's little struggle on her part. BUT HE WON"T STOP MOUNTING HER!! He's going crazy, I don't know what to do to crub his behavior. It seems like she wants to be friends, but he only wants to mount, till he gets too tired to do it anymore...

It's not too stressfull as they both have plenty of room to play with. Patina has the living room and Fujoe has the dining room. The are okay when they are next to eachother in the cage... we'll see what happens. I hope this humping thing gets out of fujoe's system

oh ya... the ONLY aggression is the mounting. No biting, lunging, grunting or anything on both parties. There's a bit of thumping. When we don't allow Fujoe to mount he'll thump in frustration... and when Patina has had enough she'll thump. Is this a good sign?

One thing that I found is really positive is when they are both side by side (you can kinda push them or place them there- making sure their heads are close together) pet them both. They usually relax and they can enjoy the petting as equals.

aww, Patina is such a sweet name! happy new bunny! She's spayed, right?

Mounting is a form of communication and a way of establishing dominance, not a sign of sexual activity. It will likely stop or lessen over time as the rabbits' relationship solidifies. Hopefully within a week, there will be much less humping!! Figuring out who is boss isn't always easy!

If that's the only sign of aggression is humping that's a good sign! But don't be surprised if she suddenly decides to hump him, sometimes that happens during this negotiation period. It's not surprising Fujoe's been on a hump fest at home, since that's his territory, so he has bigger stakes on proving he's the boss. If she starts to become really stressed over the humping, you might want to pet her and whisper nice things while he's humping - but also limit Fujoe's humping to about 15 seconds before lifting him off her.

One important thing is making sure he doesn't hump her face, since she could potential bite his boy bunny parts, which would be very bad. If he humps her face, pick him up and turn him the other direction right away.

keep us updated!

Awwwwww!

Maybe once Patina gets more comfy in her new home she will put Fujoe in his place.  Girl-bunz can be very bossy.  I hope they work things out - it sounds pretty positive.  I can imagine the games of chase-the-ping-pong-ball they will get into....

gravehearted- she is spayed since I got her at a shelter.. So, the mounting isn't sexual at all? He does become errect (if that is the correct bunny term- the little pink/red thing comes out) and I'm pretty sure he ejaculated last night to some degree.. he had what looked like an orgasm and when I picked him up he had a little drop of liquid where his penis is.. I feel a little perverted, sorry about this. I don't know if I should call the vet and ask if this is normal... if rabbits are cabable of doing this or not. or if anyone knows of this being normal, that would be great.

she hasn't tried to mount him- she did hump his stunt double the first time I put it in with her at the shelter, but that was it. Now she grooms it.. as does he with her stunt double..

if anyone is curious about my bonding I'm going to try to keep everything on this forum under behaviors:
http://www.binkybunny.com/FORUM/tab...fault.aspx

well I've always heard humping generally isn't sexual during bonding... but I certainly have seen neutered males perk up signifigantly around unspayed females. I wonder how long ago she was spayed at the shelter, maybe she still has some horomones running around that are making Fujoe crazy? It sounds like in his case it may be partly sexual though.
Some neutered bunnies do enjoy humping, Viktor likes to hump Dori sometimes. I know neutered boys can still become erect, it's just there's no viable sperm. Wish I had better advice to give you...

That reminds me, Jack does his little love buzz and honk and want so to mate with Rucy, and they've been neutered/spayed for years.  She'll give in every once in awhile.

it's odd because he just won't stop. She even licked his face, he thumped and tried to mount her again. I know she was at the shelter at a very young age- they had her parents. And she's over a year old, so she had to be spayed a while back.