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- 10/26/2018 at 5:20 PM
  BinkyTheBun
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  I have two female rabbits who are both spayed. I originally made the mistake of having one spayed rabbit and one intact rabbit. After getting her spayed the aggression went down a little bit. I tried to stress bond them in the car and that went well, until I put them back in the cage. They started fighting. I currently have a fence dividing their 6ft by 6ft omelet cage. I’ve taken a month break from trying to bond them because of some school problems and understand that I will probably have to start from square one.
  
  I was wondering If adding a larger male to the mix would help even out the dominance issue. Ysabeau is much larger then Binky and I do not want them to get hurt. While previously trying to bond them Binky had multiple scratches from fight they got into. I do not know how to stop this.
  
  whenever moving things around or them into a new space Ysabeau picks a small area to be extremely territorial over -usually one of the litter boxes- and lunges at binky when she gets anywhere near it.
- 10/26/2018 at 9:53 PM
  Bunny House
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  Hi. Did you ever do any prebonding with the buns for a month or longer? This helps them lose track of their housing and then less territorial to the other bun
- 10/27/2018 at 7:55 PM
  BinkyTheBun
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  While creating their new habitat they shared the same play area. They would go in it separately but they shared a litterbox, toys, food and hay. This was for around two months as we had a setback and needed to fix some stuff with our house.
- 10/28/2018 at 4:47 PM
  Bunny House
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  Okay. But did you ever switch each in each other’s housing for a day and do the same the next day?
- 10/28/2018 at 6:57 PM
  Asriel and Bombur
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  You need to remove anything that can be territorial when you’re bonding. Don’t add litter boxes right away and don’t start with long sessions. Go back to basics, prebond for about 1 month, then begin short sessions in neutral territory. Litter boxes shouldn’t be added in until they’re relatively comfortable with each other because they can become territorial over them and a lot of fights can break out with their addition.
  
  To be honest, no I don’t think adding a 3rd bunny will help. You could end up with 3 singles. It’s a big gamble and you’d need to make sure you have a contingency plan for if the bond didn’t work between all 3.
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