I have a bonded pair, Guin and Lancelot, who are having some issues. After watching them, I think a lot of their problems arise from her (Guin) being a food hog. I used to free feed them. Now I feed them 3 times a day. At the moment they get 1/3 cup pellets between the 2 of them in the mornings, and at night. They get salad greens 3 times a day. She charges the litterbox where the “dinner table” is, with 2 food bowels. She nips him to keep him out of the litterbox while she is eating. So I feed him separately with a cat treat ball. I don’t put the salad plate too close to the large litterbox with the 2 food bowels, because she has started nipping him there too. So I put it closer to his smaller litterbox, that I had to give him so he wouldn’t pee on the floor. He peed on the floor once, because she was nipping him to chase him out of the litterbox. This morning, she was in his litterbox, where I feed him his salad. So he lay down by the bedroom door. The more she nips, the more time he chooses to spend in my bedroom, which gives her more alone time (with her stuffies). She loves her stuffies, but I suspect hat the more time he spends in my room, the more she thinks the “rabbit room” is hers. I’m debating whether I should split them up and bond her with my other pair, or work at her and Lancelot’s relationship. If she is nipping him and being a food hog – maybe she will be the same with the other pair? Although she got a decent bite from the male during the last bonding session, after nipping him. Lancelot always backs down, never fights back, always gives in. Avalon and Morgana are the other pair. Neither are aggressive, but when Guin nipped Avalon, he bit her hard. Anyone have a food hog who nips and causes problems? Any suggestions? (Aside from nipping over food, she nips over the litterbox, and the condo. He is relegated to the floor, outside the condo).
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