Personally I’ve never seen the logic in things like this. I just don’t understand how it could possibly work. I mean rabbits are supposed to be properly bonded and can fight when they are around unfamiliar rabbits. I know that events like this do happen but I just don’t understand how it functions safely. I know I’ve not really given any advice but I just wouldn’t think it was safe. Not for catching dieseses but what if fights were to break out, it would be on a large scale. I’d be curious to keep an eye on this post though to see if anyone can enlighten me a bit more on what happens at these things.

Also if you have two rabbits already there isn’t really any need for them to socialise when they have each other

I have also never understood this, or how it would possibly work. I know for a fact that if I dumped Luna in with a load of strange bunnies, she would be terrified and attack. It just sounds like a complete recipe for disaster. I wouldn’t be worried about diseases so much as it turning into a bloodbath. I guess it doesn’t or they wouldn’t do it, but I would never take my rabbits to such an event, and I really do question places that promote it as a fun idea.

I also don’t see any benefit for the rabbits, as they don’t ‘make friends’ and play with other animals like dogs do, the bonding process for rabbits is long and complicated for a reason.

Yes they can catch diseases, worms/parasites etc but even w/o that risk, I mean I don’t think you should take them. Bunnies are either bonded or not and unbonded rabbits can fight. And even if they aren’t fighting, it can be completely terrifying for them to be plonked in a strange environment surrounded by other rabbits. It’s completely illogical.

I would not take my rabbit. You never know what disease and sickness is there and plus it would most likely end up being one big fight br=etween ll the rabbits resulting in serious injury. It would also be very traumatizing for the rabbits.

I have never understood these events either. It goes against all the logic and routine of bonding or letting rabbits get together, that we are supposed to follow for one thing. I would be terrified of my rabbits getting into a fight, somehow injuring themselves from fright, picking up some illness, or going into GI stasis from being upset after being in such an environment. Most bunnies are homebodies anyway, and can be frightened just being put into a carrier, which usually means a vet trip.

I really wouldn’t do it either.

Aside from it just being stressful, there are those other possibilities such as fighting and illness. And God forbid something happening that breaks the bond between your two! That would be awful!

I think sometimes we try to push our rabbits to do something that WE want to do. It’s important to consider things from their perspective. They’re content to just stay at home, being social with strange bunnies won’t do much for them besides cause unnecessary stress.