Well it went well and we acquired a new rabbit, named her Daisy. She’s super cute, they hit it off well in the office, but then when we brought her home, we put her in a cage nest to Ruff’s and he was mad. Pooping and lunging at her. He’s settled down a bit and we let him out to run free (kept Daisy in her cage). He would go up to her cage and want to fight her through the bars! So now I have my water bottle in hand to break up any scuttles. I’m so surprised because he’s such a mild mellow rabbit.

But she’s super nice, sweet, and friendly. She definitely won over my husband who I’ve dubbed “the bunny whisperer”. Animals just seem to take to him right away. I think we made a good choice, it will just take some time. I’ll try to attach some pics of them:

Duh, I forgot to attach the pics, second try:

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I couldn’t resist posting the first one, totally unrelated but I love bunny flops.

Well we decided to put Daisy’s cage upstairs at night in our loft area. Ruffles was so stressed out with her next to him and totally unrecognizable. She’s so super cute. It better work out, we all really like her. We couldn’t resist and put them in the tub this morning and they did ok, not perfect, but she groomed the heck out of him, he really liked it. So for the day, we put her next to him and upstairs at night. We are going to switch their towels and boxes each night. It’s really upsetting to us that he is being the aggressor, he’s always such a gentle guy. But like my husband says, his current lifestyle is worth fighting for.

Yes he does have it all, a family of bunny slaves, fresh salads daily, a huge cage with lots of free range time, and the cutest girlfriend one could ask for.

I’m annoyed with him because he is usually so neat and clean, no stray poops anywhere in his cage and def never stinky, but now he decided he wants to stink up the joint. But I will say he has settled down, he no longer wants to kill her. So I’m going to say it will work, it just will take the full three weeks or so before they fall madly in love.

Yeah, my husband said that we should probably keep them together tonight since he isn’t as angry anymore. I’ll probably put a towel between part of the cages. But she’s so cute, she actually plays with toys that I give her. Ruffles could care less about anything I gave him. It’s cute to see her flinging things around the place. I hope she teaches him how to be playful. My daughter esp loves Daisy. This morning I let them two stay in the bathtub while we were putting Ruffles back in his cage and Daisy was crawling all over Allison being real cute. She’s a great bunny. We made a great choice I think.

Well we’ve been doing consistent bonding dates every day so far and I think it’s going well. At first I wasn’t sure we should start so soon since Daisy just got spayed, but she seems very willing to get along with Ruffles. There were a few fur flying moments, but there has been some grooming and face to face snuggling. Last night we put them on the washer, and it just scared the heck out of Ruffles, he hated it. This morning we let them both romp around the little loft area and hallway, and they did great. A little chasing, a little fur flying, but in general they did well. So today, Ruffles is in Daisy’s cage, and Daisy’s in his pen. Poor Ruffles, he’s protested by pooping everywhere, but he did flop next to her pen, so there is progress.

UPDATE: Daisy and Ruffles have been getting along better and better. We felt like we had a relapse in bonding, so my husband got them in the basket on top of the washer and really rattled their basket. He called it “Six Flags for Bunnies”. I was a little nervous, but it worked out well. Then we took them to the upstairs hallway and loft where they snuggled forever. Ruffles even flopped on top of Daisy. It was the cutest thing ever! Since then they’ve mellowed down. The pooping all over the cage is slowing down. Daisy will occasionally pee outside her box (annoying). But the funny thing is that she only pees outside of Ruffles’ box. I’m not understanding that situation. But at night I let them both out and they will run around and follow each other and sometimes go nose to nose. They are definitely more interested than aggressive these days. I expect to make steady progress. I want to hopefully be able to house them together within two weeks. That’s my goal.

I don’t really know what her problem is. She did pee outside her own box, but it was a small corner pan (so I thought it just was because of the small box). I decided to move it to the corner of the cage that she peed on, and that has solved the problem. But when I let them both out in the morning, sometimes she will go into Ruffles’ cage and pee right outside his box. Never has she peed in the house other than next to the box. I’m not sure what the problem is.
Any bunny psychologists out there? Beka? Anyone?