Yes, I reintroduced them a few hours after the initial attack and she tried to attack him again.  

Edit: She was just at the vet at the beginning of Dec for her UTI checkup, he did a full checkup (minus cultures/blood work) on her late Nov and nothing was wrong then – he said clean bill of health, except a redness in the nose/sneezing which he gave us Baytril for. Do you think it could be medical, given how short it’s been since her last checkup? She’s showing no symptoms, eating fine, no tooth grinding like she’s in pain, was doing bunny 500s this morning until she freaked out and attacked him.

They are free roam, Powder can’t be put in a cage or he has a severe panic attack, so they have a “bunny room” – they were in the living room at the time though when the first attack happened and I tried to reintroduce them in “their” room in case something in the living room had sparked it. I was using craisins to distract cause they usually think of nothing but craisins when they are offered, so figured she wouldn’t try to chase him… but as soon as she saw them, all she cared about was trying to eat him. :s Should I try to reintroduce them in a neutral area, as if they were a new bond?

Edit: I guess I should also mention their bond was never that ”loving” - Powder groomed her, but she would never groom him. She is a bit dominant / bullying at times, stealing lettuce right out of his mouth when they eat their salads, but he is so docile he just puts up with her. She also stole all his favorite sleeping spots, just because he liked them, but he just flopped out in other spots and never argued with her about it. They cuddle, but she is for sure “the boss” in the family.

The room they are in is the master bedroom, with a closet they have turned into a den – she’s arranged everything to be kind of a “hidey” spot in there, should I block that off as well you think (if I can get them to stand being in the same room again)? She has her blankets, two pet beds, etc in there and they used to like to sleep in the “corner” provided by the wall cause it’s all dark and closed in and much like a natural den would be for them. Stickers is a tiny thing and can fit in them all, but Powder enjoys them more than she does, he’s always crawling into their tunnel and making such a big playful fuss. She’s more the “hide away from everything so people have to search for me” tunnel user.

If that isn’t successful, I guess I will be talking to the vet. Thanks guys.  

Well, I took away all the hidey spots and she still hates him – I let them meet and she attacked him, I sprayed her with water and she stopped, they went to different sides of the space and I ended it, then I put the baby gate up between them like I did when they first started bonding and she tried to attack him through that while he was trying to groom her through it.

I guess i’ll call the vet about her and start the bonding process over, though, honestly I am not sure … Powder was having so much fun last night being free roam, being allowed to wake me up to pet him at 5am, they both have instantly started using their litter boxes again as soon as they separated (which they haven’t done since being bonded), he got to eat a vine ball (she usually steals them from him) and was doing binkies and bunny 500s all morning (usually he does a couple and gets “the look” and has to stop and flop by her for a cuddle). Not sure I want to put him through bonding again just to be bullied by Miss. Diva.

If both come back clean bills of health, do you think it would be best to rebond, or let them just each have their own space?

Ok, thanks – just need to buy a rug for her, since she’s on hardwood and can’t get traction for zoomies/binkies of her own!

I’ll be calling the vet but since neither of them are showing any symptoms whatsoever, I am not holding out hope that it is going to be a simple get treatment for whatever is wrong and they like each other again.

No weird droppings, pee is perfectly normal, eating habits are perfectly normal, binkies and bunny 500s, no lethargy, no weight loss, no sleep pattern changes, no redness in nose/mouth, no discharges, no sneezing, no tooth grinding, no signs of pain. Both are altered with no sign of cancer and both were checked by a vet within the last 6-8 months (full checkup for their spay/neuter and Stickers had the UTI so she got a slightly less thorough one 3 months ago + a round of baytril). I am with them all but the 9 hours between going to bed / letting them out, so the vet gets a thorough observation every time I talk to him. lol Luckily I have a vet that doesn’t mind my obsessive behavior.

That it is – especially her point of view – my boyfriend calls her feral lol she’s one of those diva buns with major rabbitude and was abused/neglected so has emotional issues on top of it. o.O I’m pretty sure it was the bird cage that started it, since she was grunting/charging me when I got near it afterwards, but why she suddenly got territorial over it after so long I have no idea! Better safe than sorry though, so i’ll give them a call after lunch.

Well, both are healthy, though there is some suspicion about Stickers eye sight – so if she goes off mainly smell, I guess something could have gotten on him to make him smell different… he was sitting in botanical hay which was newly introduced to them, but that is the only thing I can think of that smells much. *shrug* She was around him last night without trying to attack, but she was marking like he was a complete stranger to her. She’s been letting me give her the night time groomies that Powder used to and been more friendly since she kicked him out, Powder has been a lot more active / acting happier. Both are 100% on their litter habits again. Neither seem to miss the other at all, they’ll sniff at the baby gate, then go do their own thing and ignore each other. They were more interested before they were bonded!

And yeah jersey, confined spaces for them isn’t possible – Powder isn’t so freaked out in a carrier as a cage (no idea why he makes that distinction) but when I tried it before she went to the back of the carrier and sat shivering and he pressed against the door of the carrier and sat shivering… as far away from each other as they could possibly get and no comfort to each other at all. lol And in an x-pen, basket, cage Powder freaks so bad he starts biting her in his panic.

Well, thing is, they were already completely bonded AND living together full time for 6 months. I haven’t tried rebonding yet, i’m letting them have space for now, though they can still meet through a baby gate some during the day. Figure i’ll start them on bonding sessions in a week or so… though honestly if it doesn’t go well, I might just let them both be single, they seem a lot happier not sharing space. Stickers has her bed all the way she likes it, without him messing it up, he has my bed. lol

*shrug* I can’t figure them out. I don’t know if Powder said something like “you’re starting to look fat” or what but Stickers thumps, grunts and attacks him if she so much as sees him anywhere in the house, it’s like a dog with a high prey drive trying to get at him instead of a rabbit that used to beg grooms off him every night. And Powder refuses to accept it lying down now, last time I let them together he fought back and she ended up running from HIM as he was nipping her (he’s a lot bigger ).

So… i’m thinking of setting up a safe x-pen run in the living room for her, so she can be around the family and away from him and I can take it down when she’s in her room to save space. She has tons of room in there, being the master bedroom, we bought her a red carpet so she can do zoomies and binkies safely (the flooring is wood).

Yesterday they were at the baby gate together and not trying to kill each other – so I let them meet and… SUCCESS.. sorta. lol Powder is chasing her trying to hump her (like when I first bonded them) and she’s running cause she doesn’t want him to. So they are back to day 1 of being strangers, apparently. Rabbits are such weird animals, they act like everything good and bad has been forgotten. lol

Yeah. It only took a week and a half to bond them from this point first time, so fingers crossed.