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Depending on what’s going on with parent genes, rabbits of the same litter can have very different colors. I don’t know if this is correct or not, but I have heard that this is all from the same litter or there’s a shared parent between these rabbits:

Be careful not to unintentionally reinforce the behavior. You can perhaps present food/pellets by her feet… Again, I know it’s weird. Also, just generally more feet exposure without her approaching him might be good too.

Maybe. Or, as Dana said, it could be temperature-dependent color. I guess you’ll have to wait to see if his ears get darker after it’s been cold for awhile.

If they don’t seem super stressed by the vet visit, yes you can do bonding later in the day. Note that they might smell “different” to each other, so if you see a rapid escalation in tension, best to stop the date and give it a day while they re-acclimate to their normal scents.

Yay!! Thanks for the update! Such happy news! 🐇🐰🐇

Just wanted to update you guys, she is back to potty trained and all of us are VERY happy. Thank you so much, love all of the GREAT advice on this board.

Thank you all for the advice I really appreciate it! Unfortunately the place I adopted them from doesn’t give me any insight when it comes to bonding so I don’t bother emailing them anymore. 😐
a little off topic here but they are both booked for nail trims this Saturday at the vet. Whenever they go, they go together but in separate carriers. The…[Read more]

We will try to see what happens with footwear. How would you go about the positive reinforcement? She also feeds him and stuff so not sure why he doesnt like her.

We will check this out thank you

I feel like building positive association with her feet might be helpful… I know that sounds odd, but remember that humans have really big bodies and I doubt rabbits 100% make the association, even though our entire body (ideally) smells the same. Feet are the first thing they see, so they are the “invaders”, “bringer of food”, “things that…[Read more]

In the meantime, this article might have some helpful info (the last section especially):

https://rabbit.org/faq-aggression/

It sounds like they are still communicating, not fighting, and choosing to be near each other, so yes I think it was still a good date. Sometimes that rough grooming is a precursor to a mounting attempt (the nipping bun is trying to test the waters lol).

And yes, just do what you can in terms of dates, I think shorter ones during the week and…[Read more]

So the next day I did another 2 hour date in the same new area. Winter initiated a lot of stand offs. After 2 tries Harper groomed(?) her head. I don’t think there was any licking though, it looked kind of rough, like nipping her head? After another standoff, Harper ignored it and laid down. Then Harper turned and did the rough grooming again.  L…[Read more]

Thank you!

That sounds like amazing progress!!

Not every groom request has to be met, often bonded bunnies will just end up cuddling when neither feels like grooming, so that’s really great!

It’s very normal for there to be bumps in the road. If it seemed very intense then I would go back to pre-bonding for a bit!

I know a few moderators have had experience with aggressive buns, going to alert them so we can get some more input.