I know this will sound harsh, but when I was bonding my bunnies nothing was working AT ALL so I had to stressed them. I put them both in the hallway (neutral territory)and blocked it off. My bf and I both wore gloves (it was that bad) because they would attack us too if we were in the way, and got our vacuum out and placed it in the hallway with the buns. Once I turned it on they both became so terrified that they huddled together out of fright. We let the vacuum run for a few minutes, sometimes moving it closer or shaking it. A few sessions of this and within a month my two buns were licking each others heads and sharing a cage! They are so in love now it melts my heart : ). I feel bad at what I had to resort to but no physical harm came to them, and surley the vacuum approach saved them a lot of pain and anger due to attacks and scratches and bites from each other.
Hope this gives you a new approach to consider… good luck!

Stress often is a good technique to help bunnies bond, but not extreme stress, but like Nibbles mentioned, just mild stress. We usually recommend bonding bunnies by taking them on a car ride in a carrier together. You can just drive slowly around the block, but being together during the car ride can help strengthen the bond. I find that it is generally harder to make 3 bunnies get along than two, so I wouldn’t recommend adding bunnies because I do not think that it will make things much easier for you. The fact that you will be in a brand new place should really help out too. When you introduce Dexter and Simon, where do you do the introductions? If you do it in any part of the house where Simon grew up he will definitely go after Dexter because it is “his territory.” Try introducing them in the bath tub, or somewhere where Dexter has never been (not even ONCE!) because then he will be less agresive because he will not be defending his territory.

Good luck, let us know how things progress!

Hello!

It’s difficult trying to bond a couple of males huh?  I’m going through the same thing!  My two buns (Koala and Attila) at first seemed to get along, then had a really big fight.  Afterwards they couldn’t even be in the same space without going at each other, which unfortunately set them back a bit.  A good piece of advice I recieved when I came to these forums was to take the hormones out of the equation and neuter Attila (Koala was already neutered).  After a long wait (both for Attila to fully develop, be neutered, heal, and for them to "forget" the fight) their ‘first’ introduction was in a bathroom. 

However both had roamed around in there, so I think that is why they went straight at it again!  A few of car rides (At first I had a friend drive because I thought that they would fight in the car.  They didn’t but just in case.), and a truly neutral space later they can co-exsist.  So far though, no real grooming has occured as I think they are working out who’s dominant.  Unfortunately, BinkyBunny’s suggestion of fooling them into grooming by smearing banana on the head of a bunny did not work for me.  (Though, it might work for you.)

One thing to watch out for is putting stuff in that may be chin marked by one or the other.  For their area I got a new chew log and a new litter pan exclusively for that spot.  Once, I brought in a big cardboard tube (8in dia ones) that they run through.  Usually its in the common ‘solo’ bunny area, so I think they both thought it was their own and it caused a big scene.  I wish I had my gloves for that one.

Lastly, I think this suggestion from the bonding journal of this website (where I pretty much got all this info) helped get them used to each others scents.  It might help to switch their cages every other day.

When they start fighting is their anything that seems to trigger it?

I wish you the best of luck!

p.s. cute bunnies!

I think the stress techniques like the car rides are worth doing for bunnies that are challenging from the start. Let us know how it goes.

I have three, one boy and two girls.  Our boy DJ freaks out when he smells other males, I don’t think he would tolerate a MMF trio.  We had at least one case in The Rabbit Haven where a woman was trying to bond her very bossy female, and she would fight with any males she came into contact with.  We ended up bonding her with a pair of brothers.  Somehow the dynamics of the trio blunted her bossiness.  There is really no way to know how it will work until you try it.  It is quite comical to watch our 2 pound dwarf girl mount our 5 pound boy, but if she tries that with the other girl in the trio, she gets nipped and chased.