Your trio experiances

[LizziAnn]

Hi everyone,

 If possible could I have your views and experiences on your bonded trios?

I have a bonded pair and I have persuaded my husband to let us bring in a third bunny! It wouldn’t be for a couple of months because I want to have our flat sorted and I would need to purchase a new puppy pen and etc etc. 

I understand that trios can be risky because it means that two same sex rabbits will be in contact and that doesn’t always work, so I want you to know that I have enough room for this third baby to live separately if the three don’t get on but of course I would want us all to be a happy family.

Anyway. even if you have bad experiences or fantastic ones please could you share? I would very much like to know what to expect.

Thank you in advance to any replies

[RetroSquid]

We’re almost on the cusp of bonding our trio…

We have two spayed girls, Navi and Daisy and a little boy called Link, we’ve spent the past three+ months slowly bonding the girls, who’re now happy and bonded, but our little chap, Link, he’s been separated from other buns due to health issues, but, after his eye removal a couple of months ago, he’s finally a ‘normal’ bun, albeit a Cyclops…

So, over the next couple of months, we’re going to slowly start bonding him with the two girls.
At the moment, he utterly hates bun company, but he’s become rather fond of our cats…

I’ll likely be documenting on here as and when it happens, so, no experiences bonding a trio yet, but will be keeping an eye here, see what everyone else has to say about it.

[LizziAnn]

Oh poor little Link. I can understand his loner attitude atm if he has recently had to adapt to this.
Yes please do keep us posted and good luck!
I’m glad to hear that your girls are settled though. Also, is Link named after the Zelda character by any chance? We have plans to call the new addition Midna from a Zelda game haha.

[RetroSquid]

He most definitely is, we had a gorgeous little boy called Zelda, too.  (we thought he was a she when we got him), but the poor little chap was only with us a few months… It’s been over a year, but is still very raw, he was such a special bun. 

Zelda’s Story

We got Link as a companion for Zelda, and the name just suited him right away. 

Link’s Eye Story

I like to share Link’s story a lot, anything to highlight the possible dangers of E. Cuniculi…

[JackRabbit]

I have a bonded pair and a single bun. We tried bonding the three but gave up for a while. Our single bun seems to be our problem — she wouldn’t groom either of the lops, apparently decided she was going to be top bunny, and humped the wrong bunny’s face.

We thought we were making progress — Marlee groomed Kieko, Moshi groomed Kieko. Putting Kieko with either other bunny seemed to go ok at first, but the dynamics of a trio is totally different than with pairs. The two girls in the trio created tension. Once Kieko mounted Marlee’s face, just for a second, Marlee went nuts on Kieko. The odd thing is that Marlee is the smallest of the three. Moshi was perfectly ok with Kieko mounting him (even though he’s top bun in the bonded pair) — I think he thought he was getting a massage because Kieko mounted him from every angle possible and he just spread out and half closed his eyes. The fight between the girls scared me to death, and apparently stressed Kieko because she went through a bout with gi stasis right after.

Kieko has bonded with a stuffed bunny now and is learning how to be a rabbit including grooming another and accepting not being groomed back (although she demanded that the stuffy groom her quite often at the beginning!). We are going to try bonding our three again at some point.

[FlyingRabbits]

I have a trio and it works great

There are Princess (unspayed doe, 2 years old), Kiara (unspayed doe, 1 year old) and Jumper (neutered buck, 5,5 years old).

I had a bonded pair first (Princess and Jumper). Both liked each other, but Jumper is more calm (depending on his age) and Princess is very active (which is typically for her breed). Kiara was an “impulse buy”, I just couldn’t resist her and I had enough space, money and time. But I was sure I don’t want her to live alone and we don’t want another bunny.

So I had the chance to decide what to do, bonding with Princess and Jumper or with Monty and Kovu.
I decided to try it with Princess and Jumper, because Kovu is not neutered and otherwise I had to get him neutered.

The Bonding worked really good, but I think I have done it another way as your typicall bonding.

I went to my friend and we build a huge pen in her garden (this was a neutral territory). Then I let Kiara in (the “weakest” rabbit as she was only a few weeks old and she have never seen Princess or Jumper). After 5 mins Jumper joined. He is afraid of other rabbits he doesn’t know and Kiara was feared of him too and they ignored each other more or less (Jumper went to her one time, then she moved a little bit and he was like “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!? IT MOVED!!!” and runed away, lol). Then I let Princess join and she chased Kiara a bit. We were there for a few hours (3-4 I think) and after that they were ignoring each other and sometimes they were cuddling a little bit.

I took them in a big carrier together and we drived home. Then we took them in their hutch together (before bonding Kiara was in the first, Princess and Jumper in the second floor). Princess chased Kiara for, I think, 2-3 minutes, then she realized she was still the boss and started grooming Kiara and cuddling with her
I oberserved them for one hour and nothing happens, so I went inside.

On the next morning they were loving each other ♥ it was really an easy bonding

Now they are a really good trio. Jumper is calm and sleeps more than the others, Princess and Kiara loves playing with each other. But they also love grooming each other and just chilling out together. They live together since october or november, I think

I think a trio can work very well but if you have no luck one rabbit is like “a fifth wheel” while two are doing great together :/

[LizziAnn]

Retro Squid: I have read both of you rabbit stories and I really feel for you. I am so sorry about Zelda, esp that it came at such an important period in your and your wife’s life. However, I want to say well done on your care for Link. He looks like he has recovered so well and looks very healthy now! :3

Jackrabbit: the stuffed rabbit sounds like a great idea, I will def take it on board and good luck on your next attempt!

FlyingRabbits: it is so good to hear about a succeful trio!! Sounds like they were a perfect fit from the start. This makes me very excited about my third bun.

[khrisangel]

I also brought in a 3rd bun not too long ago. I am very blessed as the other buns took to her immediately. They were curious and sniffing around when we got home and I let her down to play and they have gotten along ever since. She was a bit shy at first and i understand that this almost never happens and it still amazes me

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