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Forum BONDING Difficult Males

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    • Shayne
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        Hi there, 

        So I posted a few months ago about my quartet and how my original male Ollie constantly kept nipping my new male Bluebell. Well after living beside each other and bunny dates I got all four bonded. They were living together and happy for approximately 2-3 months until Ollie was seen to start attacking Bluebell again. I dont know if this is a thing but I believe Ollie has spring fever as his been super naughty, aggressive and was spraying pee (all buns are desexed btw). It also may be because Bluebell has now become dominant over the most dominant female Eevee. So now he is second dominant in the group. Also both boys seem to LOVEEEEE Eevee. 

        That was roughly a month ago and since then I have had them separated and just continue to swap the two females between them and swap them in each cage. Whenever I have tried to introduce them together again Ollie goes all out on Bluebell. Bluebell used to run away as well but has now learnt to start fighting back, which is making it even worst. It got to a point where there was no neutral spaces anymore at the house. 

        We have recently moved again however and I thought the neutral space would be good for them. They still seem to be attacking each other (aiming for each other through bars). Please any tips or advice on getting these two boys back together. They are completely fine with both females (except a bit of humping here and there). 

        Just wanna make sure that with all this new neutral space that I am doing the process of bonding these two right. 

        Thanks, Shayne. 


      • Sirius&Luna
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          You’ve posted pretty consistently about problems with this quartet, with different bunnies being the problem each time. Some rabbits just don’t work in groups, and it seems like this group just doesn’t work and there’s too many dominant personalities. It sounds like the second girl could be being left out as well, since you say that both boys love Eevee.

          You could try resetting entirely, keeping them separate for a 2-3 months so they forget each other, then bonding from scratch. But you can’t keep trying to bond now while they consistently fight because they’re obviously holding grudges that they need to forget.

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