Does my boy want to be an only rabbit?

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- 07/23/2011 at 11:24 PM
  nicole859
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  Everyone keeps telling me bunnies are happier in pairs but we are on our 2nd girl and my boy just seems so annoyed with us bringing another new rabbit into his space again. We have housed her in his room for about two weeks and have been doing bonding sessions for a week. We are still working in a neutral space. The room is separated into two sides by an x pen and if the rabbits are both out of the cages at the same time at some point one of them will try and bite the other through the bars. Our boy has been doing serious marking for about two weeks with both stinky pellets and pee. During bonding they will ignore each then sometimes the girl will try and lay by dash he turns his back to her he is still trying some mounting and she growls and sometimes nip and sometimes if he moves suddenly she will growl and lunge. I guess I am just worried about my boy being stressed out. Should I continue with this or should he be a bachelor lol FYI they are both fixed and our previous bonding i thought had worked but a huge fight broke out one evening and then neither bun wanted anything to do with other and we turned the girl back over to rescue group
- 07/24/2011 at 5:31 AM
  Beka27
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  You need a neutral space and it sounds like they would benefit from some stressing beforehand. It might also be necessary to put them in separate rooms and only put them together during bonding sessions. Most bonds take a month of daily sessions before they can safely live together. One week is not long enough. Continue working with them. Get tips from the HRN bonding article. Try different techniques highlighted in that article. Try to do daily bonding sessions for at least a month or two.
  
  If after a couple months you are still not making progress, then I might think he doesn’t want a bonded mate. BUT… I would recommend that you keep the new bunny either way tho. You’ve made a commitment in adopting her and it’s not her fault if they don’t bond. She still deserves a home.
- 07/25/2011 at 10:19 PM
  nicole859
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  We are doing the bonding sessions in a neutral space, the bathtub. I know this wont happen over night just wanted some input on if it sounds like things are going in the right direction. So tonight seemed really good there was a lot of grooming right off the bat and a lot of flopping and laying together. the girl, doodles, still is not liking the mounting but she is not growling anymore she just runs away. Should I move them to a semi neutral place now and see how it goes?
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