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I agree with Wick&Fable! I think side swaps will help. Do be sure they can’t nip noses through the fence, because that can increase hard feelings.

Ahhh!! She’s so adorable!! She looks so soft 🥰

After watching my ladies flop and groom each other, I have come to the conclusion that I am indeed crazy to consider adopting another bun. Sigh. He is awfully cute… But I don’t think I could deal with the stress of a newcomer right now.

Thank you all for your responses!

Number 1 looks more low pile and low pile is always better for avid chewers! 🙂

Rabbits can act very differently through a pen wall vs. when having real access to each other. As the owner of the space, some might interpret Rodders being by the pen as a dominant, rude move, expressing “Ha, this is my space. You can’t get here. I own this and am so relaxed.” … If possible, I’d encourage swapping Rodder and Lily’s space every…[Read more]

It is money consuming to buy toys that don’t last long, but that also means they are ‘good’ toys for redirecting your rabbits energy! I regularly purchase cat scratchers for my Fable since she spends most her energy on destroying them.

With any rugs, you just have to keep an eye on whether they are chewing and eating them, so it will be a bit of trial and error. The lower-pile one (I think the first one?) would probably be less tempting for them to nibble. I don’t like to have any carpet in the bun’s main pens (where they are unsupervised).

I recently got these cotton rugs from…[Read more]

Hmmm, the might ignore it. If they chew it, it wouldn’t be the same purpose as the cardboard. Keep and eye on loops of sisal that they might catch their teeth on, or if it has stuffing inside. The benefit of the cardboard is it gives them something to destroy that is safe and not your flooring.

It sounds like they are doing really well with each other, but I actually see the fact that he’s still withdrawn as more reason to give him more time to settle in. I think you could start daily side swaps soon though. Bonding itself is very stressful and moving to a new home is very stressful, so giving the bun time to recover from moving before…[Read more]

Okay, thank you. My rabbits destroyed the cardboard cat scratcher I got in 2 days, so I was looking for something that is the same idea just might last longer.

By start the bonding, I wonder could we even do a short session just to test the waters? Hard to know what the right thing to do is… I trust your advice to do the swaps back and forth but could we do short sessions while doing mini bonding sessions? As you can tell, I don’t handle pressure well 😅