Potential bonding situation

[TheDuchess]

I currently have one female Dutch. Do to her being free roam and my living in a small one bedroom apartment, I am unable to bond her. However, we are in the process of buying a house and I would really love to get her a friend, ahem, a FEW friends

Ideally, I’d like a trio. The local rescue has several bonded pairs available, and I’m pretty sure that when I’ve inquired before, they said they are willing to bond singles that they have. I’m assuming that adopting a pair that is already bonded and just trying to bond her to them would be easiest? I absolutely do not have the time on my hands to bond them myself, so I would be asking the rescue to take her and do the bonding for me, that way I can just introduce them all into their room at once. The room is large, but I’m unsure of the specific measurements. They would have only the room, as a new homeowner would not like the place getting trashed by a couple of rowdy buns.

Thoughts? Sound like a good plan?

[Harley&Thumper]

I would set up some speed dating to see which pair is most likely going to accept her. I’m trying to bond a single with a pair right now and the doe in the pair DOES NOT want to share her buck with another rabbit. You might find that none of the bonded pairs at the shelter will get along with your bun. You might be better off going for a pair and trying for a trio later on.

[TheDuchess]

Thanks.

The idea was to have the shelter do the bonding for me and move them all in at once so that I don’t have to worry about neutral space. If I were to start with only a pair, I would then have to deal with all the motions of prebonding and bonding and all that. As I said, I simply do not have the time to do it myself. I’m up at 4:30am and when we move to this location further from town, I likely won’t be getting home until around 5:30pm. I’m not going to pretend that I can handle bonding on top of my busy schedule, so that’s why I’m not even going to try. I don’t HAVE to have a trio, but I wanted to save more than one bun because I am in the position where I can provide for several buns.

[Harley&Thumper]

I honestly don’t think the trio plan will work unless the shelter is willing to spend several months trying to form the trio. I wish I had a more upbeat opinion but I think you are better off going for a pair instead of a trio.

[Bunny House]

Hi, it often takes a month or longer for prebonding and then the actual bonding process can take months. Bunnies are a lot of work, especially if you want a trio. You will need to stay with them for 24 hours at the end to make sure the bond is stable. Having the shelter do the prebond and bonding for months is asking a lot. If you don’t have time for bonding, then I suggest you keep the single bun you have or bond one other. Either way, you will still need to be heavily evolved in the bonding process.

[Sirius&Luna]

Ophelia?

I don’t see why bonding a trio is necessarily any harder than a pair, it all depends on the personalities. It also depends on whether the shelter is willing to risk splitting a pair on a trio, which is the main issue I see. Perhaps picking out two single buns and trying a trio with three bunnies that don’t know each other would work better.

I also know lots of rescues and ‘professional’ bonders that skip the prebonding – I think that prebonding and going slowly is a great method for people bonding at home themselves, but plenty of rescues have a lot of experience bonding rabbits and do so often and in short periods – I assume it’s the neutral space that works. Shelters don’t prebond and bond for months, they’ll establish a bond and then get you to monitor for a couple of days once you bring them home.

[Asriel and Bombur]

hahahahaha S&L I was wondering if you were going to be the first to figure it out xD

[TheDuchess]

That was exactly my thinking on it, S&L. They get many single buns in and they do all the bonding there, within weeks. Like you, I assume that it’s the complete unfamiliarity of surroundings that helps the bond go quicker, as no one is struggling with their “this is my home, get lost!” b.s… I personally don’t think it’s unrealistic to ask them to take O and bond her with others and then I would bring them all home to a completely new home that none of them have lived in. I actually think that it’s like best case scenario, cause it’s not like they would all be going back to a place that was already lived in by one bun and not the others.

I wondered if two new singles would be easier or a pair, I just didn’t know! They have over 40 buns right now, so I don’t think I’ll have any issues finding buns that get along well with her.

[Sirius&Luna]

This is so exciting!

Personally I would choose two chilled out boys, as I think Ophelia is a bit of a bossy Luna. I’m 90% sure I would never have been able to bond Luna with another Luna But luckily both my boys are docile little angels I’m sure with 40 buns you’ll be able to find at least one suitable partner… Really, since you’re moving to a new house, there’s no reason to stop at a trio haha.

[TheDuchess]

Exactly! While she is very sassy and bossy (even a bit RUDE at times), she was just so affectionate with Quincy. They just ran into issues because he never got comfortable. I think that she really needs a lot of attention to thrive, and I feel so bad for her because I’m not home much And that’s what I told the hubs, we have 4 bedrooms so how many buns can that hold?

[sarahthegemini]

Just chiming in to say I knew who you were but I didn’t wanna ‘out’ you

[TheDuchess]

 Hi Sarah! I’m staying under the radar… but as you can see, I’m planning on expanding the fur family

[kurottabun]

@O I saw your post in another thread and was staring at the profile picture suspiciously LOL. Then I clicked on your profile just to make sure and saw this thread…

Hi and welcome back! And so excited to see moarrrr bunniessss with Ooooo 

[TheDuchess]

Bahahaha I suppose I thought my name was a little more clever than it is

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