bonding a baby bun to an adult

[bondingbunnies]

im looking into adopting a 6 week old male bunny to bond with my almost 3 year old spayed female. ive heard a lot about babies usually taking to adults but have also read bad experiences, i would like to hear your input on the whole situation and how i would go about bonding them. the plan would be to keep him in the bunny room in a secure pen while my current bunny stays free roam and ill start an introduction on neutral terriory and see how that goes, if all goes well he will be neutered between 3-4 months so he doesn’t have much time to go through his horomonal stage. i have had my rabbit around baby rabbits on somewhat neutral territory before while the two babies were 12 week old females and my rabbit had not been spayed at the time and i had no issues.

[tobyluv]

You will not be able to properly and permanently bond your rabbits until the male has been neutered. The first step in bonding is for both rabbits to be spayed or neutered. They might bond at first, since he is a baby, but as soon as he hits puberty and his hormones flood in, you will have to separate them, then wait until he has been neutered, plus a few weeks wait afterwards. So, instead of bonding them now, then having to separate them, it would be better to house him separately until after his surgery and recuperation time. He could be in the same room with your bunny, but not together. A bunny really should stay with his mother until he is 8 weeks old. If you are looking for a companion for your female, almost all rescues spay and neuter their rabbits, so if you got a male from a rescue, he would already be neutered, and if that had been done at least a few weeks before you adopted him, you would be able to start the bonding right away.

I find that the best way to bond rabbits is to put them in an x-pen, and you get in there with them. You can break up any fights and you can pet each one at the same time to hopefully calm them.

[bondingbunnies]

that’s why i talked about bonding him before he reaches 6 months. ive seen stories of people bonding bunnies before and putting them back together after spay/neuter and everything continuing as normal. i thought 6 weeks would be a bit too early as well, but wether i adopted him or not he would’ve been taken away from his mother. i currently have them in the same room and my bunny will follow (not chase) him around to see what he’s up to and they even slept next to each other last night through the pen.

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