i have two angoras – latte and bristol.  when i first introduced them a few weeks ago, they both mounted and chased, but then settled down next to one another and were fine.  i did not think the bonding process was done, however, and so didn’t let them live together or have unsupervised playtime.  over the last few weeks, bristol has become scared of latte as she is a little assertive with him.  she will chase him and wants to be the dominant bunny.  bristol will thump his foot when they are out together, but then he also wants to sniff noses with her.  last night, latte was having out of cage play time and bristol kept periscoping to try to see what she was doing.  when she owuld come up to his cage, he would sniff noses with her and looked like he wanted to play as he was doing happy hops in his cage.  so, i took him out and he immediately thumped and turned away from latte when she came up to him.  they circled one another and i thought were starting to fight so i put bristol back in his cage.  latte immediately went over to the side where he was sitting and flopped down.  bristols flopped down right beside her on his side of the cage.  i’m super confused as to what is going on.

latte has had one other mate and they bonded immediately upon first seeing one another.  no fighting or chasing ever.  they saw one another and that was that.  he is no longer with us and so i got bristol as a new mate.  both latte and bristol and around a year old.  they both seem to want to bond but then they both seem to not want to bond.  i don’t know how to understand what they are doing.     any help would be appreciated.