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Hi: Thank you so much for your understanding. I received several replies but really held out for the right person. I would never break up a bonded pair unless it was truly not working out for the pair. It was very hard to let them go to a new home, but the new owner wants to stay in touch and...

Yes, they have found a new home. A very nice gentleman who has prior rabbit experience came and adopted them yesterday. Thank you for asking.

Holland Lop and New Zealand White Mix--very small--Olive (the Holland Lop) is about 3 lbs, and Simon, the NZ mix, is about 4 lbs. Very gentle, friendly. Litter trained; both are spayed and neutered. Must go to indoor home only and have free range time in a rabbit proof environment...

Oh my! It's been quite a long while since I've blogged, but I hope to remedy that with some long-over due pictures. Olive and Simon had a spat this morning. Olive was the instigator, I think. She was nipping Simon in the bum, chasing him, and (how unladylike) mounting him. I separated them for...

My bunnies Simon and Olive have been bonded since November of last year. This morning, my boyfriend witnessed Olive chasing Simon, nipping, mounting and tearing out chunks of fur while they were both in the X pen. Then I witnessed it. Simon didn't seem to fight back, but I removed Olive to a...

Hi! I have always been a 'dog person'. My 13.5 year old Westie, Piper, passed away three years ago, and I was devastated; I had had him since he was a puppy; I was in my early twenties when I bought him (at a pet store, unfortunately; I didn't know any better then) and he was with me through...

Since she's six months old, I would assume the peeing/pooing outside of the litterbox is hormone driven marking, and should stop after the spay and the hormones die down (can take about a month for the hormones to go away completely). My bunnies are pee in the box--but they also leave poo...

ZRabbits wrote: It can be tricky with multiple rabbits; sometimes you'll be able to bond a trio, other times only a pair, and sometimes everybody is best left to their own devices as a single. While I love the fact that my pair is bonded now, it was a very stressful experience and next time...

ZRabbits wrote: Hi! As I understand it, littermate bonds are tenuous and typically break when they reach sexual maturity and hormones start asserting themselves--that's when territorial issues and dominance issues come to forefront. I guess if I had a pair of littermates who got along up...

LibbyZ wrote: Hi! I love Holland lops, too! I currently have a 10 month old Holland lop doe named Olive. I got her last summer from a breeder when she was ten weeks old, spayed her, and then a few months later decided to adopt a second bunny, this time, from a shelter. There was not a wide...

Nancy McClelland wrote: Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with littertrained bunnies who leave stray pellets around. Simon is much better about being tidy than Olive is--funnily enough, *before* her spay, she always peed and pooed in the litter box. Then, she started getting a...

I have two rabbits: Olive, a 10 month old Holland Lop spayed doe, and Simon, an 8-10 month old New Zealand mix neutered buck (he's only about four pounds, but looks like a New Zealand otherwise). I had Olive first, spayed her, waited a couple of months, and then adopted Simon from the local...

1357rabbitlover wrote: I almost always wait a few days to name my bunnies/pets. Once I get a sense of their "character," I can name them. For example, my first Holland Lop got her name "Flip flop" because she would flip over on one side, cross her front paws, and sleep very deeply that way...

Last year around July I bought a Holland lop doe from a breeder; I had her spayed, and while she was sweet, she seemed lonely to me. I am a full time graduate student and she would often rattle her Xpen bars for attention while I was sitting next to her working on a paper. She seemed happy...

tonyshuman wrote: Much better, thank you. She is on a five day course of metacam and reglan but has been eating, and her fecal output looks much better. She's been hoping around and grooming herself. So, I think we're getting through it ok. I hope she stays well. Thanks for your...