When we just had 4 bunnies they were all bonded together and everyone was happy.  Then we adopted Keelie and Kylie and thought gosh wouldn’t be it be nice to have all 6 bonded together so that they could be one big happy bunny family?  And then I could make a nice big bunny condo for them all to share.  Well, that didn’t work out.  Keelie and Kylie were already bonded together, but Keelie seemed to hate any other rabbits.  She’s not all that fond of people either actually.  But so far we haven’t been able to have her near any of the other bunnies without the fur flying.  And then, something strange happened last night.

Last night we had Carbun out (the bunny that joined our family on the weeken), and “the twins” (Keelie and Kylie) out, but they were separated by a baby gate (Carbun in the livingroom, the twins in the dining room).  Except the gate isn’t big enough to cover the entire opening, so we put a large box in there as well between the doorway and the gate.   And suddenly I saw Keelie, sitting on the box, watching Carbun.  And I thought uhoh, not good, she’s going to go after him.  But she didn’t, she just sat there and watched him.  And she’d hop down, and then come back on the box and watch him some more.  And then before I knew it she’d hopped into the livingroom and was loose with Carbun.  And I thought, oh crap, not good.  But they didn’t fight, they just seemed very curious about each other.  They did chase each other around a little bit, but nothing like when Keelie has been out with the others!  I’m totally stunned.  Spontaneous bonding?  Hopefully this means we’ll be able to get Carbun bonded with the twins and house them all together!

– Annette