Owen seems to chew on Molly's whiskers: they're suddenly shorter

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- 06/26/2022 at 1:23 PM
  Ellie from The Netherlands
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  Owen and Molly aren’t bonded yet, so they live with a fence between them. The interactions that we see are friendly, although Molly nudges and digs at Owen for attention sometimes. They like to lay against each other with the fence between them, and they groom each other through the bars.
  
  Owen has been ill for 2 weeks because of stasis and was declared healthy a week ago. Molly’s behaviour changed a lot: suddenly she’s very vocal, confident and she presents herself for grooming a lot. She’s acting very dominantly at the moment, and she’s also been spraying urine since Owen’s stasis started.
  
  Yesterday we noticed that Molly’s whiskers have been chewed: they’re still about 5 cm long, but a lot shorter than they used to be. Is Owen being a klutz? He bites the bars to get closer to her if he wants to groom her, and he may have bitten them off accidentally. Or is there something less innocent behind it and should we separate them for a while?
- 06/26/2022 at 4:21 PM
  Ellie from The Netherlands
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  Update: Owen has some chewed whiskers too, mostly the ones around his mouth. Those around his eyes and nose are longer.
  
  I think that somebunny may be a klutz…
- 06/26/2022 at 5:44 PM
  Vivicloud
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  Oh no could there whiskers be crossing the barrier and each bunny is like quite poking me and then decided to chew them down?
- 06/29/2022 at 7:32 PM
  LBJ10
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  Bunnies will chew each others whiskers in an attempt to establish dominance. You said they were struggling to decide who is going to be top bunny.
- 06/30/2022 at 12:37 AM
  Ellie from The Netherlands
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  Oof, these two are really trying to duke it out… Thank you LBJ, I hadn’t thought of that.
- 06/30/2022 at 2:07 PM
  Vivicloud
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  Hopefully it will get sorted out for you soon.
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