Yes you need to get them fixed if you want them to get along and not have babies.

The cancer rate is too high in females, they will become terrortrial, be aggressive, have false pregnancies, etc. There are way too many homeless rabbits out there.

It is almost impossible to bond unfixed rabbits, so I hope this friend reconsiders.

You could also send her to rabbit.org to read why rabbits should be fixed.

Two females unaltered often will fight, a male/female will breed if put together and if left together will breed a LOT. So … yeah they should be. Ask your judge if you show if it is allowed to spay.

My understanding is that in order to show animals in state or official ‘breed’ shows, they need to be in tact. Some smaller shows (such as with 4H) may allow it.   Although 4H also teaches you how to raise rabbits for food so maybe they judge on the criteria as to how many people it could feed…

As such, you cannot allow show rabbits to inhabit the same cage or even cages that share a wire wall. Matings HAVE happened through the wire – albeit rare. In addition, as a show rabbit, you don’t want them to fight for any reason and matings as well can cause issues that will make a show rabbit no longer showable (such as having one bite piece of an ear off) – besides the fact that you can get 10 babies every month from matings.

In other words, no bonding for show animals, especially rabbits.  They must be alone in seperate areas where they cannot reach one another – both to be safe from injury as well as from pregnacy. Sometimes you may see show dogs or cats playing together but that is due to the fact that they are not always in heat as well as you have usually a few seconds to get them apart if they do couple. With a rabbit, they’re always in heat and it can take less than 5 seconds for a mating to happen.

Just to adding to everyones advice. Even if your friend put a young rabbit (baby?) in with an adult, it might seem rosy at first but then the young one will grow, become hormonal and hell breaks lose. Regardless if it’s male/female or female/female. Don’t risk it.

Females have a very high risk of reproductive cancer (80% by age 4). Spaying drastically reduces this risk. If possible, can you “retire” your rabbit from showing by age 2 and have her spayed, then she can be just a regular house rabbit companion.

Males don’t have as high a risk of cancer, they do have a risk of testicular cancer, but my vet said it is no bigger than with cats/dogs really. Poor females have it rough with such a high risk though. And males often have behavioral/litter issues if not neutered.

Males can get testicular cancer but the risks are not as high as for females.