G’day guys,
I have two male rabbits Smug and Roger. Smug is a bit bigger and is definitely the alpha between the the two. Theyre both about 6 months old and have had them for 4 months.

They use to get along so well like brothers, they’d chase each other around a bit, lie next to each other, eat together sleep together it was all good. But one day we woke up to find that Roger had lost his strength to hold himself up and was unable to walk or do anything. We quickly rushed him to the vet and found out he had the parasite E.Cuniculi and was extremely dehydrated and hungry with some acute damage to his liver.

Somehow with all the vets help and the medication that was administered he managed to survive. And after a few days he was almost back to his normal self. But we had to keep the two rabbits seperated for at least two weeks just so Smug didn’t get infected. Those two weeks are up and Roger is probably about 80-90% better and we tried putting Roger back into the normal cage with Smug, almost immediately Smug was chasing him around, biting him and trying to hump him. After about a minute Roger just collapsed like that morning we first noticed he was sick and just let Smug do whatever and that’s when I seperated them again. Roger was still stressed even after an hour and we think we might need to keep them apart a bit longer.

My question is how can we get these two to bond again without Smug nearly killing Roger? Should we wait another 2 weeks for Roger to rest up a bit more maybe?