Hi all,

I have three 15 week old male rabbits who were all neutered last Tuesday (9 days ago). They were all born on the same day from the same litter and have been well bonded since as they have not been separated for longer than an hour. They always play, eat, groom and sleep together.

Yesterday after I put them away from their playtime, two of my rabbits broke out into an awful fight! There was fur everywhere, scratching, biting, lunging. You name it, they did it. At one point I opened the hutch to separate them and they fell out, neither of the two rabbits noticed and they continued to fight. All of the rabbits seemed to instigate the fights at different times, I continued splitting them up for about an hour and a half (maybe too long I know, I didn’t want to ruin any bond they had left), then split them up and placed them in different areas of the hutch as I have a two storey hutch. Two of the rabbits were fine together at the top of the hutch until this morning when I tried reintroducing the three of them to each other through breakfast and once they had all finished they lunged at each other, with yet again more fluff everywhere. After this, the two who slept together last night started fighting so had to be separated. Now I have one on each floor of the hutch and one in the playpen.

After speaking to my vet, she pointed out that after fighting so badly rabbits don’t tend to bond again as they replace good memories with bad ones.

I wish I could afford three hutches, three runs/playpens and three lots of everything else but as a student teacher I cannot nor do I have the room to place them all in separate rooms in my house as I live with a large family.

Is it cruel to rehome them? It’s breaking my heart thinking about giving two away, but I don’t want them to hurt each other anymore.

Do I have any other options?

Sorry if this is long winded!!