It’s time

[Nate]

  It’s finally time for me to join the community to ask a few questions of the more experienced members.    I’ll try to keep this short and to the point but if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask.  

  I am attempting to bond a trio.  Our first rabbit (magnolia) was a rescue from a …. ..breeder that didn’t raise rabbits to be pets.   (Part Flemish and rex I’m guessing)  A short while after getting her home she gave birth to two babies and only one survived (I think he’s part lionhead??).  His name is Chester and he’s the most relaxed chill bunny you could ever meet.  From the moment he started crawling out of the nest we would spend time with him on a daily basis.  We were rewarded with a affection that I was surprised to get from a pet rabbit.   Long story short I did my due diligence and knew the clock (biological ) was ticking and I would have to separate mom and son.   When that happened we had to move Chester downstairs to the garage due to his sniper like skills with his water gun.   

  It took longer then I wanted to find a vet 4-5 months and in the mean time we added another rabbit (olive) with magnolia.  They instantly bonded.   And when olive was ready to be spayed we took her and Chester to the vet.   Now that everyone is healed up I’m testing everything out.   Olive was put back with Mags (magnolia) after healing and everything seems fine.   I’ve been bringing Chester upstairs to get used to the his mom and olive (kept apart with the c n c cage)  Everything seems to be going good.. . No honking, no peeing everywhere (we were nervous as hell) just alot of sniffing through the cage.  Only problem I see is that when Chester is brought upstairs, Magnolia gets real testy with olive.    I know that Mags can get out of the cage if she reeeally wanted to. Yet she just lays next to the cage and watches Chester. Little Olive will come hopping out of the main cage and Mags will turn around and grab a piece of her hair…. 

Anyone have any ideas moving forward?  

P. S  I redesigned the bottom half of the cage with spacers( k-nex) and notherr layer of grids.  It’s the perfect amount of space so the rabbits can smell each other and not bite.

Thank you in advance! !

[Mirpanda]

Are you holding the bonding sessions in a nutral area that no bun has been in before? This can help wonders in the bonding process.

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