Well I’ve been using the xpen configuration suggested by Markus and it’s the best setup I’ve used yet, they really seem to like it! This was the one they were in when they got into the litter pan together.
But yes, I think the confined spaces of the single pen seem to be too much for them. (I did combine the top of one superpet pen with the top and bottom of the other, as I posted in another thread) I think I may have to just stick with the separate night pens, since I simply can’t stay up all night for who knows how long to make sure they don’t fight.
Pip is in a real snit today and has been throwing her litter box all day and most of last night. She only does this when she’s extremely unsettled. Everything was fine until I tried to put them in the same bunk bed. It’ll easily take me awhile to get her calmed back down. And until then, she’s just too dangerous to be around Mimzy without someone sitting right there to keep her from taking it out on him.

Their routine has been disturbed and now I’ll have to work hard to get it re-established.

The nice thing is, the next Binky Box arrived and they got to try those new dried willow bundles with the leaves still on? OMG, did they snarf those like their butts were on fire! They LOVE them! So that made us all quite happy today. ^_^

No Beka, I just don’t have the room and we’re working on it, but it’s coming along WAY slower than I want it to.
I’m pretty sure they’ll at least be able to have more time out together when I can get the xpen set up permanently, but that’s going to block off an entire room in the house as just theirs, with the two housecats and the kids and all, plus any relatives that still plan on landing on us this year *AHEM!*, I want them to be in a traffic-free zone, but not so isolated that they feel shunned.
Pippi has been VERY busy re-christening her pen with litter, poop and pee. I am hoping this will settle down here soon, as I dont’ fancy having to spray out her pen every day. (I even asked my hubby to look for the drill and those zipties for the hundredth time…anyone else here have a man who hoards his tools so you can’t use them yourself?)

I just don’t want either of them hurt. It just kills me to see one of them nursing an injury that could only have come from the other. (The cat likes to try to poke them with her paw through the xpen when she thinks I’m not looking, but she gets Hades for that!) These are tiems when I wish they had been brought up together instead of trying to bond them when they’re both obviously very set in their ways.
I don’t know…maybe they just don’t WANT to be bonded? 0_o