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I guess each bun has a specific zoomie track in their brain. I just made everything as safe as possible, and Louie can just continue his zoomies.

Thanks @DanaNM and @Hazel !

He’s still eating for sure. The dandelion has been a bit scarce around here, but will look to see if I can get him some more… have plenty of mint right now though so I’ll throw more of that in his dinner, he doesn’t like fennel that much but I’ll try again. Wish I could do one go, wouldn’t work for Dorian. His molt…[Read more]

Awesome thank you all for the help! Means a lot. I’ll just let the prebonding continue for a week or more and see where they are at before I do some stress tests. Hopefully after some stress tests I can try our first face to face in a neutral spot in a playpen I set up.

What a pain. 🙁

Since they claim the surgery is severely risky, I’m guessing they tried to talk you out of it because their death rate is quite high. Could be that’s the reason they charge so much, hoping people won’t want to pay that amount.

I tried to take some pictures earlier, I got nothing but a big blurry mess 🙄  Maybe tomorrow 😆

What a shame about Dorian’s glorious ears!

Agree with Dface, if at all possible it’s best to adopt an already spayed/neutered bun. But I think you mentioned in another thread that’s what you were planning on? Are you just exploring different options?

Either way, best to not let them interact until you are ready for bonding. It also isn’t totally necessary to do side swapping until after…[Read more]

If he didn’t fight when she mounted, that’s a good sign. And yes mounting is a dominance behavior. It can be hard to tell in the early stages who will end up being dominant, and often it’s best to just not worry about it. As long as there is no fighting, that’s a good thing.

Things can change though-out the bonding process and as one bun settles…[Read more]

I wouldn’t be too worried as long as he keeps eating. The only times Oscar has tummy issues is when he’s shedding and he gets gas. The Simethicone drops usually help very quickly. If you think Dorian might have some gas, go ahead and give him some. Simethicone doesn’t get absorbed by the body, so it certainly won’t do any harm.

As far as removing…[Read more]

I normally don’t worry about getting buns’ bellies. Figure they can handle that on their own and it would be very stressful to try. But my favorite thing currently are those sticky lint rollers. I don’t like wasting the sticky sheets but they work so well… and I really only use them during heavy molting time. Hand plucking is sometimes the best…[Read more]

Spaying is more invasive than neutering, and comes with risks like any surgery, but the risks of uterine cancer are far greater, as reproductive cancers are the number 1 cause of death in unspayed females (life expectancy is typically cut in half).

It is important to find a vet that is comfortable with the procedure. Spays used to be considered a…[Read more]

@Hazel yeah….that is kind of how I feel, except the vet talking me out of it was weird. Maybe they just weren’t comfortable with it.

They wanted to do the consult/exam in one appointment, the blood test in the other, and then the surgery in another appointment…stating it was “less stressful.” Yeah.

Any new vet I go to requires an exam…[Read more]

Dorian has a decent zoom area, but when he does he seems to like to take the path of most resistance and is a bit like a pin ball. Moving things out of the way doesn’t help as he just adjust his path to include them again, he must go through all the tunnels and boxes and under the table and do sharp changes of directions he just never makes. I…[Read more]

LOL, it does look a bit like that… I am sure he is explaining important stuff to his elephpant. The pic did crop everything so you can’t see his cute ears though, he actually looks more inquisitive in the original. @Hazel we need bun pics from you too! 😀

Well I put them in a stress test early ( i didnt know was a mistake ) and she mounted him and he just took it the whole time so doesnt that mean shes the dominant one?

Okay ill wait until they get more comfortable with eachother in the prebonding to do stress tests but I will keep swapping the bunnies on different sides daily until the stress…[Read more]

Sounds like a good set up!

FYI in bunny body language, bowing the head is a dominant move! Unlike in dogs, the bun the goes low is the one trying to be dominant. New bonders often interpret that as the bunny being submissive, but actually it’s a grooming request. The bunny that asks to be groomed is trying to be dominant. He is probably…[Read more]

I feel so bad for Hunny. Any more news?

I have something similar too and it’s fine! You just need a 2nd barrier between them so she can’t nip him. We have an ex pen and then some of those storage cubes set 6 inches in front of it all connected in a row with zip ties. So they can see and interact but they’re too far apart to touch each other.