Your bonded buns-

[Sam and Lady's Human]

Can you post and tell me what the genders are of your buns? I’ve read a lot of conflicting info about what genders bond best, and am now just thinking that it really depends on the bunny itself and not so much the gender?

[peppypoo]

Yup, I agree that the personalities are a lot more important than genders in bunny bonding. However, the shelter where we adopted Milo defaulted male/female (though they said that they’d give anything a shot if requested) so that’s what I ended up with!

[Sarita]

I’ve had quite a few girl/girl pairs. My rabbit Toffee had a female friend (who passed away) – she is now alone. I have another pair that is male/female. I think it’s definitely ideal to try a male/female pair first though.

Monkeybun bonded her two girls so it’s definitely not impossible.

I had bonded 2 males at one time but the one male kept getting sick and I had to separate them – it was a very new bond and the well one kept picking on the ill one.

[Monkeybun]

Yep my 2 girls are happy little snuggle buns. Going to go for a pair of boys here soon

It does depend on the bunnies, not the gender specifically. Each bun is different

[TriBun]

 Boy/girl for me. I didn’t really choose it that way, it just kind of happened.

[Stickerbunny]

Boy/girl… also didn’t really choose it, Stickers just happened to be a girl and I wanted to take her in cause she needed a home.

[Lintini]

boy/girl
and boy/boy/girl/girl

The only issues I had ever was before the quartet was pairs and the boy/boy had issues. I think they were fighting over a hidey igloo.

the girls get along great in the quartet

[longhairmike]

option 4,, “i wish”

mine would tear each other apart…

[Beka27]

It does depend on personality quite a bit. Some buns would bond to anyone. The concern with “dispelling the myth” is with NEW adoptions. It’s fine if you already have two girls and decide to TRY bonding and see if it works. Both Monkeybun and Lintini already had the female rabbits in question. If the bond didn’t work, they would’ve just figured out something else. Keeping all the buns was not contingent on them bonding. They gave it a shot, and fortunately for them, it worked. They are the exception to the rule. Many more have tried and gotten nowhere but they are not chiming in here, probably because they are in their house, hiding from their rabbits… (LOL…)

But actually SEEKING OUT a female/female pair FOR the purpose of bonding is asking for trouble in my opinion. We want to see bonds go as smoothly as possible so when people ask for advice on sex pairing prior to adoption, we explain what is MOST likely to work and what is LEAST likely to work. Of course, if like with Monkey and Lintini, the rabbits are already in your house, we’ll provide support however we can. I guess I just think, why possibly make it harder on yourself if you don’t have to? People acquire buns in a variety of ways, so if you happen to have two females (or males), give it a try. They might surprise you.

And bunny dating is helpful too, but even then, they can seem to “choose” somebun but than everything falls apart on their home turf.

[Monkeybun]

Thats for sure Beka. Monkey chose Moose, was going great, then BAM. Moosie hates the Monkey. Silly wabbits.

[Lintini]

I can’t believe that Moose didn’t like Monkey, she’s such a charmer! And then she loved Smudgie. Basically the opposite happened that we all predicted. The life of a bunny!

[Elrohwen]

I had Otto first, so I was set on looking for a girlfriend for him because most advice says boy-girl pairs are easiest. After seeing Otto with some other bunnies, I realized that it didn’t matter which gender I picked – he was completely laid back around every bunny and would eat hay next to anyone we put him with. He would not have had a problem with another laid back male. I still ended up with a female because we wanted a lop and we found Hannah first (and the cute loppy males had all just been adopted out, or were not good with other rabbits at all)

If I had to rebond Hannah, I wouldn’t want to try with another female. Hannah isn’t aggressive and she loves other bunnies, but she is bossy and likes to push Otto around – he’s very submissive. I think another similarly bossy girl bun would make bonding much harder. It all depends on the personality though! If I found a really laid back and submissive girl, I’m sure it would work just fine.

[LoveChaCha]

Oh yes.. monkey and smudge are charmers.. moosie is very lovely as well. I wanted to take them all home with me

[LBJ10]

My boys love each other. =)

[LittlePuffyTail]

Almost bonded: My two boys. I have 2 boys and a girl and the boys were the best match for a pair.

[mocha200]

I have a boy and a girl.

[luvmyhunybuny]

Okay, I should have read this before asking my question, sorry. I am trying to bond Smudge and Toby. Not going well at all.

[piperknitsRN]

Bonding, I’m learning, isn’t easy.  I’ve bonded a pair before (Flip flop to an older rescue bun I named Mookie) and they had some chasing and minor scuffles, but never an all out fight.  In the past, I’ve bonded female/female pairs, never knowing that it was one of the most difficult bonds to achieve.  Olive (my current Holland lop, female) was just introduced yesterday to a male New Zealand bunny (whose name I haven’t figured out) and they did just fine at the shelter.  Brought them home and… they fought.  I’ve just now taken to stress bonding them in *very* short increments by carrying them around in a laundry basket (I’m glad my neighbors can’t see this, they’d think I was nuts!).  They haven’t fought, and have even snuggled a little bit.  I’m not exactly counting it as a “win” yet, because looks can be deceiving, but I’m thankful I found something were they seem to preoccupied with being in a moving object to fight. 

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