Short version, I have ended up with four rabbits. One unspayed female (Buttercup), one unneutered male (Baylie), and one two month old (George) (you can guess where he came from) have just come to me from another home. They have lived in harmony(ish) thus far at the old home. Since they’ve been at my home I have the George and Baylie separated from Buttercup. (George is not nursing) Rabbit number four (technically number one) is my neutered male, Zeke. Adult rabbits will be fixed January 9th, and I understand that they must continue to be separated until hormones are all gone- roughly a month. 

Long version, it all started about a year ago. A coworker gave my mom Zeke, a BEW holland lop, because he was found outside about this time of the year. He was seen being put outside to fend for himself by previous owners; we have been assuming he was an Easter present someone got tired of taking care of. We are animal people, but didn’t have any rabbits and kind of had to learn pretty quickly how to take care of him. Although there were some rough patches, Zeke has been an absolute wonder of a rabbit. He was already litter boxed trained, he doesn’t chew a whole lot, and since he was fixed in March, has gotten along really well with the rest of our ‘pack’ (6 cats and 2 medium/large dogs). The only real complaint I have is that I have to buy somewhat expensive hay for him because of his refusal to eat timothy hay. Anyway, about a week ago we ended up with the other three when a friend had to move out of her apartment quickly because of a unsafe situation there. The rabbits have warmed up to our home pretty well so far, but they have been limited to their cages. Zeke’s pen has two parts, a 6′ x 4′ downstairs and a 4′ x 4′ upstairs that he doesn’t go to. I think he doesn’t feel secure with the ramp I made and have been planning to change it, but it worked out pretty well for me right now. I have the upstairs blocked off with the dad and the baby in that pen, and the mother in a large dog crate that has been wrapped in chicken wire so she can’t slip out of the bars/ get her head stuck in the bars. All of them are in the same room, but Zeke does not seem to care or notice. I should note that Zeke is completely deaf. 

I am still deciding what I want to do about bonding them, and am curious to see how post-hormones the previously paired rabbits interact with each other. I am hoping that reintroductions go well with them so they can live together before George (the baby) hits puberty, and the George can take one of their cages while he recovers from his own neuter. If not I guess I will be buying another dog crate. 

I plan to document the bonding process here, as well as ask questions as they come up, if that’s ok with everyone here.

The only question I have at the moment is if anyone has any recommendations for litter box training three rabbits at once? Zeke doesn’t even mark his territory with poop, its like 99.9% in the box for him and has been since I got him, so that process is something completely new to me. Also, I guess a second question, but the female is a lot worse about using the box than the male is, is this just typical of the fact that they are not fixed yet and will that get better once they have surgery? 

So sorry for the dumb questions, but I haven’t found a lot of information on bringing home multiple rabbits at the same time. It complicates things for me some.