2nd session

About an hour duration

Hope you’re ready to be slammed with pics lol

Put all 4 in a laundry basket and went for a quick trip down the street so my husband could buy me yarn, thereby killing 2 birds with one stone.

There was 0 interest in fighting. None whatsoever. They were pretty afraid, lol. As you can see, there was hardly any ROOM to fight…

Which didn’t seem to bother them one bit because they all wanted to huddle as close together as possible. In fact, they usually stood/laid directly on top of Tank.

The stress bonding turned out to be way longer than I meant it too (like the first half hour–sorry bunnies ._.) and then I put them in the tub for another half hour. They all behaved pretty comfortably with one another. There was no fighting or humping whatsoever. Probably as a result of the car ride they all huddled like this for a while:

And then they dispersed to explore and it seemed like Mulder instantly fell in love with Pudd and hopped right over to groom him after a short while. And he really went to town. He wanted Pudd to get CLEAN.

Perhaps my earlier predictions were wrong. Maybe this will be a lot easier than the trio!

Is this the beginning of a happy bun bun family? Kinda looks that way!

LOL, people ask me that all the time.

Tank is the largest. It can still be tough to tell when it’s dark, but he has a really round, commercial body. And he never stops shedding x.x

Pudd is, of course, really small and he has tan on the back of his neck. There’s no mistaking him for the other three.

Mulder and Scully are difficult to tell apart quickly. They have different personalities, but for when I need to be certain right now, if you squint hard at the last picture you’ll see a tiny mark in Mulder’s ear that I made with a sharpie… lol

No, I put it on hold to solve Tank’s litterbox problems and take care of his arthritis. I think I’ve gotten it under control now and am ready to pick it up again haha. It took a little longer to get sorted than I thought.

Waaaaah I’m tired today!

But anyway, put them all back in the tub for about two hours and was really bored (therefore, good session.)

There were two fights (that I broke with yelling) and I am certain in one instance and I suspect in the other that Scully started both. Inexplicably, she is the only bun to have ever been aggressive toward Pudd, and she is the one I thought would get on with him the best. I can’t put my finger on why. She’s a relatively timid rabbit (in most situations, including when I was trio bonding and in her continued interactions with the other rabbits) and Pudd is more of a dominant personality. I guess sometimes rabbits just might kind of rub eachother the wrong way. + 1 for same-gender rabbits getting along just fine, though, because the boys have never had any problems with Pudd.

All rabbits groomed Pudd, even Scully who was all but attacking him earlier, and Tank, who I have never ever seen grooming the other two ever. It’s gonna be tough to tell who’s top rabbit!

Maybe I’ll post pictures later. In any event, they’re ready to move into semi-neutral territory which means rebuilding their cage for me QQ their current set up absolutely will not work, it’s too small for 3 rabbits and would be SHAMEFUL for 4, even if they’re out during the day.

Here are the pictures I didn’t add earlier

This one wasn’t that great, I just put it up because it’s such a great flop lol. Mulder especially loves to squirm between all of  them and a wall and then just do a barrel roll. He really tosses his whole body into it until he’s achieved the desired position.

And this was such a good line-up, but I wish I could have gotten a better picture of it too. Isn’t it nice when they’re all getting along? (:

Moved into semi-neutral territory. Scully is alternating between being genuinely nasty to poor Pudd and grooming him. I feel sorry for him, he’s huddled up in one corner the entire session so far. About 25 minutes in.

Bad day today, he jumped out of the playpen into my husband’s arms to escape Scully who’s continued to be aggressive.

For the first several moments we just had the three boys in the pen, and everything was fine. Then I added Scully and there was chasing and nipping on the part of all three of them.

I think I’ll go back to the tub. I suspect I may have lost some progress by not keeping up on it very well.