This is a second question I have about the two buns I currently bonding (and still have so ways to go with). We had 5yr old male Fluff first and kept him upstairs so it’s “his.” When we got 2 yr old Baby Girl, we put her pen next to his upstairs and did pre-bond swapping so they could get used to each others’ scents, but did all our bonding downstairs which was neutral. But we gave them alternate time in the upstairs living room so that they could each get sufficient exercise.

With it being summer, we realized it gets way too hot upstairs to keep the buns there, so we moved both of their pens downstairs where it’s cool and have moved our bonding to the hallway. BUT we still let them do their alternating exercise time upstairs when it’s cooler in the evenings.

My question is about when we start trying to move them upstairs at the end of the summer. It’s definitely not neutral space for Fluff, and now I wonder if Baby Girl will consider it “hers” since she hasn’t experiencedit with Fluff yet, though surely she can smell that he’a been up there. We also live in an apartment so there is no where else that would give them sufficient runaround space.

Once they have gotten friendly in the hallway, how can we start introducing them to sharing the upstairs space?

Sorry for typos…I am typing on my phone with tiny keys XD