There were a couple more small scraps and I nearly had a panic attack. Thanks to my paranoia and over-provision I have managed to set up another habitat next to the cage. Frankie is already notably more confident and keeps coming up to the bars to see me. The two can see each other and occasionally press their noses through the bars towards each other.

I understand that after they are neutered it will be another month or two before we can re-introduce them. Am I understanding correctly that having the two cages next to each other will help with the process later on?

Thanks for the advice. We still hope to bond them but the set up we’ve got could quite easily be permanent so waiting isn’t going to be a problem.

Any advice on how best to let them out? We can’t give them both run of the living room at the same time, should we take it in turns to let them out or try and find another space for one or the other?

We let Major out for the first time last night and he was fine, running all over the room and just sniffed at Frankie a bit.

This morning we let Frankie out and he just hung around Major’s cage and they tried to nip at each other through the bars. My husband had a hard time trying to distract Major while I got Frankie back in the cage.

We’ve put them in separate rooms now. Major is still in the living room but Frankie is in the spare room with us and the computers.

I’m about to cry. I thought I knew how this was going to work but whilst we got as much advice as possible, we were not prepared for having to split up our bunnies within 24 hours of having got them and our flat isn’t really well suited to having them in separate rooms. We’re wondering if it would be best for bunnies and us if we return one. Trouble is, I’m kind of attached to both already.

Thanks so much for all your comments, you’ve gone a very long way to stop me from panicking!

I’m quite pleased to say that today has been much more successful. We’ve bunny-proofed the spare room and there’s a lot more space than we originally thought. My worry is that the spare room isn’t as big as the living room but because we don’t have to distract him from Major and there’s not nearly as much rented furniture for him to chew we can let Frankie out most of the time. (Litter-training is like a dream so far, and we have *so* much spare carpet for covering up dig spots. ^_^)

And like you say, it’s not permanent. My husband and I had a long talk about it and we’re determined to stick it out. A couple of months separation isn’t that big a deal when you consider they could be together for 10 years or more. It hasn’t started out quite how we would have liked but there are still lots of positives, and I can’t say that I love our new bunnies any less for being a bit more work than we’d originally anticipated.