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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

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- 06/22/2011 at 1:43 PM
  Stickerbunny
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  I have discussed this issue with my vet and his advice is to leave my male uneutered due to the health risks of the surgery (he’s an older rescue and was stuck in a shelter for 6 months, with unknown background before that) since he has no behavioral or aggression problems. He never humps, anything at all. I gave him a stunt double with the girl’s scent on it and he sniffed it, licked it and ignored it. Since she is healed up from her spay I have let them meet nose-to-nose twice with heavy supervision and there is no aggression and he seems completely uninterested in mounting her at all.
  
  So, my question is: Do you guys think it can be successful with him not neutered (she IS spayed)? He is honestly the best behaved rabbit I have ever seen – doesn’t chew on anything, he nibbled a few things he wasn’t supposed to and simply saying his name in that “you know better” tone stops him and he never goes back to it. He’s 100% litter trained. He has no aggression issues, he shares his salads with my bird and lets the bird groom him. He jumps up into our bed and runs around and never marks a thing.
  
  His extent of contact with her has been he crawled belly-low to groom her without scaring her and ran around completely ignoring her as she ran up to sniff him and ran away.
- 06/22/2011 at 3:44 PM
  LoveChaCha
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  Your bunny boy will be different around a bunny. He maybe that way toward you, but mommmy isn’t a bunny
  
  How old is your boy?
  
  I would get him neutered if you plan to bond.
- 06/22/2011 at 4:10 PM
  Stickerbunny
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  We don’t know his exact age, but the guess is 4-5…though he could be older, the people that had him didn’t give the shelter much info. He has met her and as I said in my first post, he hasn’t shown any aggression at all – nor has he tried to mount her. She runs up to sniff him, then runs away, he has licked her forehead, otherwise he just completely ignores her. lol
  
  I am hesitant to neuter if the vet thinks it would put him at any risk, he just finally got his muscles built up to being healthy … when I first got him he couldn’t run across the room without exhausting himself from being in a cage so small he could barely take two hops for so long (the shelter was not really equipped to deal with a larger bunny). If needed, I can just keep them away from each other. Our vet passed the house rabbit society’s tests, has been treating them 20 years and did very well with my girl, also the only rabbit-savvy vet in town, so kind of worried about going against his advice and risking my baby.
- 06/22/2011 at 5:16 PM
  Lis
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  If your rabbit-savy vet advises against a neuter for health reasons, then I wouldn’t neuter him.
  
  I only have one worry with trying to bond them. Your boy may be completely driven by hormones, while she is not at all. He may not be terrorizing her for sex (no better way to say that) now, but he may in the future.
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