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I am owned (
) by two rabbits: A three-year old rex mix named Emeralda (Essie) and a two-year old wooly mix named Marge. Essie is fiesty but sweet “Queen” most of the time, and Marge is a fiesty but sweet “Emperess” (or, at least that is how she acts 
). Both are not fixed (or whatever the term is for females; I can never remember which term to which gender 
). I love both of my bunnies, but they hate each other. I was very excited when I learned that rabbits can learn to bond because I had always heard two bunnies could never learn to bond. 
I have joined this website in the hopes to learn more how to take care of my precious bunnies.
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Hello!
It is definitely important to spay (or fix
) your ladies. Female rabbits have an 80% chance of getting uterine cancer by the age of 2 if left unspayed! Yikes! Also, it will be virtually impossible to bond them without them being spayed. Females tend to be a bit more aggressive than males and they can have completely devastating fights. You will need to get them both spayed before any interaction happens. Rabbit.org has a list of recommended rabbit-savvy vets, although they aren’t all of them. Make sure you call around to a few different places about prices because some vets do it for considerably higher! The average cost for a spay is usually around $150-200, but one vet quoted me at $400.
Once they’ve been spayed, give them about a month for those hormones to die down and then you can start the bonding process. I would start at here:
http://www.saveabunny.org/rabbitcare/bonding-guide
https://binkybunny.com/BUNNYINFO/BondingInfo/tabid/63/Default.aspx
And then any other questions you have can generally be answered on the board.
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