Welcome to BB! I’m assuming your buns are spayed and neutered? And if yes, how long has it been?

What did you do to bond them? Because it sounds like they bonded the same month you got her? Which is pretty rare, so their bond might not be cemented.

I have a problem with my bunnies fighting now too! They are siblings and both around 4 months old. Until now they have been inseparable and always grooming each other, eating together and sleeping side by side. I just had my boy bunny (Daisy – I didn’t know he was a boy until recently) neutered a couple of days ago. My other bunny (Moe) is a girl but last time I took her to the vet he said she wasn’t ready to be spayed yet, as not fully developed. Daisy is fine after his surgery, he has been eating well and moving around without being in pain. But all of a sudden about a day and a half after his surgery, I wake up to him and Moe fighting super ferociously. They had two more fights after that in the same day and I ultimately separated them. They seem to miss each other and lick each other through the bars of the cage but I don’t want them to get hurt or break their bond further by more fighting. How will I know when to trust them to let them be together again? I feel bad that my choice to neuter Daisy has made my one super in love little bunnies hate each other.

Posted By BunLove on 1/22/2018 10:00 PM

I have a problem with my bunnies fighting now too! They are siblings and both around 4 months old. Until now they have been inseparable and always grooming each other, eating together and sleeping side by side. I just had my boy bunny (Daisy – I didn’t know he was a boy until recently) neutered a couple of days ago. My other bunny (Moe) is a girl but last time I took her to the vet he said she wasn’t ready to be spayed yet, as not fully developed. Daisy is fine after his surgery, he has been eating well and moving around without being in pain. But all of a sudden about a day and a half after his surgery, I wake up to him and Moe fighting super ferociously. They had two more fights after that in the same day and I ultimately separated them. They seem to miss each other and lick each other through the bars of the cage but I don’t want them to get hurt or break their bond further by more fighting. How will I know when to trust them to let them be together again? I feel bad that my choice to neuter Daisy has made my one super in love little bunnies hate each other.

Your rabbits aren’t bonded. They’re babies – babies get on with pretty much everyone til hormones come into play. That’s why they should be separated, spayed/neutered and properly bonded once hormones have disipated. 

I’m going to try the same thing in a few weeks time after Daisy’s hormones calm down after his neutering and I hope it works.  My bunnies are in a playpen but I’ve put a divider in the middle so they can’t get to each other. So strange how bunnies can be perfectly fine with each other and one day just switch.

Prebonding is an important step that seems to have been skipped, and it sounds like your girl didn’t have time to settle in before putting the two of them together. Before putting them together it’s important for them to have been acclimated to each other’s scents by switching litter boxes between cages, switching bunnies between cages, giving them each a stuffie with their scents on it and swapping between them. Usually prebonding should be done for 1-2 months. It seems like they never figured out who was the dominant bun, and that seems to be happening now. You should separate them, and go back to the initial bonding phases. So start them in neutral territory, and do prebonding at the same time, and start with short sessions. Start with 10 minutes, then gradually increase the more they behave.
Hope this helps