Hi sevyn! I also responded to your other post and was also hesitent to go into too much detail in the foster bunny area about your current bunny.  (Binkybunny will be back shortly)

If you try to bond a neutered male with an unspayed female he will likely be very amorous of her when they are courting.  I know that she wouldn’t get pregnant, but she can go into a false pregnancy, rejecting him and warding him off (in other words, reversing your efforts to bond them).  She would then also enter into destructo-bun activity where she’ll chew and shred just about anything in preparation for nesting. She’ll not respond to his amour and the bunny relationship can suffer from this.  I have seen cases where the pair never bond again (then you’re stuck with keeping up two rabbit areas for each bunny) and I just really want to caution you here and make you aware of the possibilities. 

I know you’re so excited about saving a bunny and by no means want to stop you from saving a cuddly cute life. As an alternative, would you consider or be open to rescuing a bunny and keeping him in a separate cage side by side with her until she has surgery and is healed? Bunny bonding is normally started this way and then outside "dates" are arranged for formal bonding. It is done like this at the shelter nearby to me when one or the other or both bunnies are not fixed yet, then afterwards the formal dating begins.  Truly, you save a lot of headaches, time and energy by trying to bond two rabbits that are both fixed.

As for how she will be after surgery, I’ve seen nothing less than malicious bunnies turn into sweethearts when the surgery and healing is over.  There are several threads about how members’ rabbitudes changed after the operation. I’ll try to dig some of those threads up and post the links here.  I find it is better to hear testimonials and others’ input as well.

Please let me know what you decide and if you two can live with keeping them separate until she is fixed too.

You’re welcome Sevyn! That’s wonderful and I’m glad I could help! I think you’ll be able to tell so long as her potential mate doesn’t try to nip through the bars at her or she tries to attack them. Bunny matching is not an exact science, but if they can get along amicably enough through the bars, I think you’ll do just great! It’s so sad that you’ll only get to pick one, but it’s wonderful you’re saving that wonderful him to bond with your sweetie. Now on a more exciting note, when do you think you’ll go find him?

Good luck! I hope it goes well! Sometimes it does take some time for shelters to get back toyou because they are very busy and being a Sunday, they may not respond. I really hope you can find a vet that is close as if there were to be an emergency, the closer the better! My fingers are crossed for you!

I can understand the feeling of being torn with wanting to save a bunny, but also to do what is best for Vicki.
I do hope you’ll be able to find the right vet to have her spayed soon.

Thats so great you are helping out buns in need There are so many – I know how hard it is to leave any behind when you have the room for more (I was limited by my 1 bedroom apartment before, now I’m in a huge Texas apartment…fortunately my BF moved in with me so we’ve got SEVEN bunnies in there now, haha). If the bunnies are ignoring each other through the wire it is definitelya good sign that neither finds the other threatening. Maybe you could foster a bunny until Vicki is healed, and then if they don’t work out together, you could help them house that bunny and find a new one to bond with Vicki?