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I can relate to that!

Yes, Maxwell and Ruby are still bonded. Ruby and Snoopy are like 99 percent bonded too.

I agree, it was too soon for a marathon, I hoped I’d get lucky:) I’m back to just the boys today. There have been lots of nips again but not really any fur pulled. Snoopy actually groomed Maxwell for a few seconds before another nip. It was scary for me, them…[Read more]

Yes, humping means it is time to separate. Humping can quickly escalate into fighting, so it’s best to do it now to avoid any incidents. As the others have said, it will be for the best in the long run.

I agree with the others. You were doing your best and sometimes these things happen. The fact that you are taking such good care of him meant that you were able to discover the fly strike right away, before the maggots could do any serious damage.

If humping has begun, its def time to separate them now. I get that it feels sad to separate them, but its only for a short time. If they can be truly bonded its definitely worth it.

Yes, keep them separated from now on. And to clarify, prebonding means no access to each other at all– just swaps, so having them together in an enclosure is not prebonding.

You need to wait for the surgeries and at least 1mo post to ensure recovery and hormone regulation.

Them being separated is much better than the stress and pain of them…[Read more]

So an update i just moved them into an even bigger playpen and within 5 minutes the more dominant one started latching onto the back of the smaller boy and trying to hump him, smaller one sat there and took it all but i guess the move in enclosure upset the balance so i have no setup a double fence down the middle with about a 200mm gap between…[Read more]

Well, yes you could start now with prebonding, but you might still see a difference in their reactions post neuter-surgery. Some rabbits get a post-neuter craze phase for a couple of weeks just after their spay/neuter. During this phase (which is normal and will end by itself), the bun can get aggressive, territorial and even hyper-sexual. This is…[Read more]

I’m very sorry this happened to you, but you caught it very quickly! According to Richard Sauders, famous British rabbit vet, full-blown flystrike can develop in as little as 6 hours in a heatwave. You caught it early and took swift action, and that’s admirable.

It is difficult and very stressful to care for a disabled bun. I’ve never had to deal…[Read more]

Oh how terrible 🙁

Don’t beat yourself up, I cared for a geriatric bun who also had EC and incontinence for almost a year, and it can be very hard to keep up with the cleaning. He crossed the rainbow bridge a couple months ago, but as we were going into warmer weather I was so terrified of fly strike. You caught it early which is great, please…[Read more]

Thankyou for the info, when you say meanwhile do the prebonding of swapping litterboxes and the areas etc do you mean start doing that now when i seperate them and keep doing it up until the neuturing and straight agter neuturing also?

Ok, thankyou for the info, when you say meanwhile do the prebonding of swapping litterboxes and areas etc, do you mean keep doing that now while they are seperated and prior to the neuturing and also straight after neutering?

I feel like the worlds worst rabbit owner, honestly. It really feels like everything that could go wrong, is going wrong.

because he was on so many antibiotics along with the metacam, his stools weren’t the firmest and factor in the occasional incontinence with the EC he needed bum baths pretty much daily. We’ve been having exceptionally warm wea…[Read more]

I’d say divided them no later than at 12 weeks. The fence in the middle need to be double with an inch or so disance between them, or very fine grid to prevent biting through the grids. This will not make a post-neuter bond harder. What will make a post bond (which is a true bond) harder is if they get into a fight before being neutered. That can…[Read more]

Well it’s been over 2 weeks and I haven’t worked with them at all. Combo of being busy with work and just not being motivated to work with them. But simultaneously I realize the current situation (no one is really gettting enough exercise) isn’t good long term!

I’ve reached back out to the bonders to see when their availability is, it seems like…[Read more]

Are Maxwell and Ruby currently still bonded? Sorry I can’t remember if you had to separate them or not.

It does sound like separating them at 3 days was probably a good move. Perhaps you just bumped up to marathoning a bit too soon?

I think continuing to work with the pairs would be a good strategy, but just keep the sessions shorter again to…[Read more]