First of all, I’m sorry for posting another thread like this but I need help.

Allright so just as information, I have read a lot of topics and article on various websites including Binky Bunny for the last month and after each sessions I try to read some article again and I catch some things I could do differently and some addition we could implement in the bonding process. It is our first bonding experience and I feel pretty ignorant when I try some bonding experience even if I have read on the subject for the last month or so.

We recently adopted a neutered bunny (2 years old) a week and a half ago (Sept. 27th). He is pretty calm all the time and easy to pet.

We are planning to bond him with our 7 months old spayed female. (i presented her as a male couple months ago but turns out he is a she )

We have started swapping toys a couple days after he came into our house.

We did a first date in the bathtub in a NIC meeting cage that I made, about 1 cube and a half each but with an empty space in the middle of approximately 2 inches. (3 cubes long). They were curious but as it is our first time bonding bunnies, I tried reading the body language but I saw nothing in particular, maybe grooming demands but it was very subtle.

The second time we did the same exercise, they both tried to did in direction of the other rabbit and the female tried to mark the place.

Both times we ended on a good note and we try to give a treat before putting them back in their cages. (He is not a good eater in public, I don’t know why, also he has some different eating schedule. He eats late in the evening or when we go to bed, or simply when we are not around.)

Here is the part that is getting interesting, tonight, we tried the first real date (maybe too soon I’m afraid). We put them in the bathroom, I sat in the middle. They tried to fight for the first 5minutes and I kept separating them because they were pretty aggressive, pulling fur and fighting a lot. I decided to keep them apart even if they tried to cross on the other side because I thought it was enough fighting for one date. Maybe they did not have enough time to let their aggressivity on the toys that I swapped, but they did not seem to be aggressive on the toys… the female was trying to mark her side but they finally laid in their respective corners. I offered them a treat, the female ate it as usual but the male don’t seem to care less for treat when offered. He started to groom himself so we let him finished before ending the session. That was good enough to end it on this note as I was too scared to let them be close to one another again.

It might be just over protective from my part and from what I have read maybe they would have be less aggressive after the first aggressions but I did not want to let them go for another round.

Any thoughts on where to go from here?

feel free to ask for any clarifications and thanks in advance for any help/comments.