Hi!

To answer your questions in order:

1. You should definitely wait until the boy is neutered before attempting to bond them. For a start, if you don’t know if the girl is spayed then you will likely end up with a pregnant bunny, which could be pretty dangerous at her age.

2. We say baby bunnies can’t bond, because as soon as hormones are involved everything changes and they can be very volatile. One month after his neuter, his hormones should have left his body and he’ll be ready for bonding. Generally boys can be neutered from around 4 months, as long as their testicles have dropped.

3. See above – hormonal rabbits are unpredictable, and you will have a much easier bond if both animals are spayed/neutered. Particularly since it’s your girls original home, they tend to be much more territorial than boys. It’s also important to spay female rabbits for health reasons, as there is a very high incidence of uterine cancer in unspayed females.

So, it really is important that they are both neutered before any bonding begins Having them living side by side is a good method, and its important to swap them between cages too so they don’t see either space as THEIR territory.

Feel free to ask any other questions you have about the bonding process

S& L is on point!

I’ll just add that I’ve heard males can spray sperm from quite a long distance! There are stories of pregnancies in females housed near males that never actually contacted each other. So if there is any doubt about whether your girl is spayed, don’t have them side by side just yet!