I apologize in advance if the is in the wrong area! It does involve bonding, but I’ mostly wondering about Basil’s behavior. 

So after recent events we have found that Basil is being super territorial and spraying in areas that either don’t smell like him, or smell like my other rabbit Pascal. We found this out through bonding attempts between Pascal and Basil. Pascal has already accepted Basil and has groomed him and even tries to cuddle a lot but Basil keeps spraying and thumping which stresses Pascal out to the point that he just sits in the corner and waits for the bonding to be over. The only thing preventing them from being fully bonded is Basil’s spraying.

I have stopped the bonding for now and started to swap their blankets, toys and litter boxes so that their smells can mingle and Basil hasn’t sprayed at all when that happens so I’m wondering if when he does spray he is upset/uncomfortable that the area he is in doesn’t smell like him or not? He is neutered and has been for about a month now and both of his testicles are shrunk so we don’t think the vet messed up on the neuter or anything. We are currently at a loss, especially since he is so selective on his spraying.

Places Basil sprays:

• neutral areas
• areas that smells like Pascal
• around Pascal 

Places Basil doesn’t spray:

• his cage
• his cage with smells of Pascal added in.
• My roommate’s room when Pascal isn’t there

I’m wondering if anyone knows of a way to help combat this behavior. Currently Basil is in the living room and Pascal is in my room, we would like the two to both live in my room and are not sure what we need to do. We are worried that if we deep clean my room to get rid of any and all rabbit smell that Basil will spray since it doesn’t smell like him. We are also worried that if we don’t, even if we add in some of Basil’s scent, that he will spray so that it will smell more like him.