It’s very difficult to tell if a bunny wants a friend or not. Most bunnies do, but it has to be the right bunny, and only the bunny knows waht rabbit is the right one. Some shelters offer speed-dating for bunnies for this reason, so the bun can pick a friend himself. That is often very successful, but not available everywhere.

Bringing another bun into your home can result in loss of litter-box habits, because buns are territorial and mark out their territory with poop and pee. This can be a temporary thing or it can be permanent. There’s no way of telling.

Is Finn neutered? He’ll have to be if he is to have a friend. The friend too must be desexed.

Bunnies can form strong bonds with their human, and they can be sad if their human leaves them, but it’s not quite like when they lose a rabbit they’re bonded to. If your mother is prepared to take care of Finn while you are away and she’s willing to give him a chance to love her, I think he’ll be fine without you for a few months.

It’s normal for a bun to take food and run off with it. My Bam does that even when his favorite person in the world (my mother) gives him a treat. Bam can sit in my mothers lap for any amount of time and just doze off while she pets him – but if he’s on the floor when she gives him a treat, he runs off with it. It’s more an instinct than lack of trust, I think. Some dogs does that too, if you give them sth particularly yummy.

Bunnies can be a long time about accepting people. It’s built into their genes to regard non-rabbits as possible predators looking to eat them. A human who wants to bond with a rabbit as a rule needs LOTS of patience.

Hi. Im in Australia also. I know in the past some rabbit rescues offer that, at least in NSW. Try Google 🙂

Best of luck!

Speed dating I meant. 🙂

You’re welcome. 

Please let us know how it goes 🙂

Good luck!

OMG, how awesome – all these Aussie’s!!! Lol….

I ‘ditto’ everything bam said….

BIG smile!

“G’day to y’all” (that’s an Aussie American twist sentence !) lol

Absolutely don’t worry about Finn running off after being given food – totally normal especially if it’s a big bit – mine does that it’s sooo funny. They can tell if it’s a “one-piece” or several pièces of food. If several, they’ll stay for the other bits! If a ‘one-piece’, then mine grabs and runs to the furthest possible place to nibble in peace, as if I’m going to chase after and take it back !!

Also re your Mum wanting a stroke…. when she gives Finn a treat, to not let go of the treat immediately and just give his nose a rub whilst he’s nibbling on food still in her fingers…. it may help

The other think is not to give a treat in one big bit, but to try break it down as much as possible – so instead of having just one episode of treating, he gets used to having lots of little bits. (the same quantity obviously, but just more repetition of good positive rewards)

If a ‘one-piece’, then mine grabs and runs to the furthest possible place to nibble in peace, as if I’m going to chase after and take it back !! 

Yes, mine is like that too. As if. They are funny creatures.

Chewie does that too. He’ll help himself to something I happen to be eating and then run off to eat it on his favourite little rug.