My 1 year old female holland lop, Whiskey and her sister were surendered to the humane society. By the time i was looking into adopting a rabbit her sister was adopted (and at the time that was fine because we weren’t ready for two at that time) We brought her home and she fit right in. She explore everywhere and clearly thought it was all hers (it’s actually quite amusing when she chases the cats out of the room). Even so, it was quite obvious that she was lonely and bored. After we’d had her for several months we started looking into getting another rabbit as her companion. We went to the humane society and did a couple of bunny dates, only intending to bring home another rabbit if it seemed like a good fit. Most of the rabbits we saw were very sweet and for the most part had no problem with Whiskey, but we she met Melvin it went really well. It wasn’t exactly “love at first sight” but by the end they were cuddling nicely, and she had stopped mounting him. At home we already had a temporary cage set up next Whiskey’s cage (but far enough away that they couldn’t bite each other). Their time together goes quite well unless Melvin gets anywhere near her cage (even if this means going to get a drink from his cage. I’ll probably end up seperating the cages for this reason, but i really do think it’s good for them to get used to each other’s smell, and just the sight of another rabbit.

If anyone has tips for getting rabbits to adjust a bit better to having to share what they’ve cnsidered their territory that would be great.