Should i get a friend for my bunny?

My 6 month old bunny bella seems very down and lonley, she always wants to be with me either cuddled up to me or just sitting on the back of the couch near me, she seems to be very lonley.
Anyway my question is should i get her a friend? and if so do i get the same breed or does it not matter?...im very new to owning rabbits and need help despretly, i dont want her being down and unhappy
Thanks

yup you need to get her a friend she need it......bunny can't live alone
as a human we need a partner....

It really depends on the bunny, and how much time you spend with her. Bella obviously enjoys spending time with you- how much time does she get out of her cage and with you?

How do you know she seems down and lonely? Does she seem bored, or destructive at all? Or does she just follow you constantly demanding attention?

If you would like another bunny, then I can only think it would be a good thing for Bella, PROVIDED she gets along with the new bun bun. A great way to know this is to take Bella for bunny dates at your local rescue to see which bunny she gets along with so before you add another bun into your home you know you would be surrounded by fighting fluff balls of bunnys!

Rabbits are generally very social creatures- they live, eat and sleep together and they are highly intelligent animals who enjoy many social activities and play etc. If you are worried you aren't able to provide her as much socialisation as she needs (which wouldn't be hard, if you have a full-time job etc. or had a busy lifestyle) and she would be a much happier bun with a friend then I'd say go for it with the bunny dates.

Taking care of two bunnies is really not that much more expensive or hard than looking after just the one (imo) so just do what you think would be best for Bella.



*I just have to add: .....if you do get a bunny friend for her make sure both Bella and the bunny friend are spayed. Either as female and male you could end up with a preggers Bella, or if you have two females (supposedly the hardest type of pairing to bond) if they are both unspayed they are much more likely to fight*

Jen

I thought Peaches wanted a buddy too - he looked so sad and because I worked, he'd be alone all day. I got Popcorn and got him fixed too and waited for him to heal. But Popcorn doesn't like to share and likes his space to himself. He grunts, lunges & growls at Peaches (who's about 6" away from him in the next pen). So now I have two single bunnies who won't get a friend. Peaches would still probably like a friend but he's okay single. Pop is too fiesty to have a friend.

So be prepared to have two single bunnies if you can't bond them together.

Thankyou everyone, you've been a big help, im actually thinking of taking her with me out to the local RSPCA shelter to see if she likes any of the rabbits/Guniea pigs out there, i was thinking that would be the easiest way to see if she would like a friend.
jcottonl02- shes constantly out of her cage, as soon as i get up of a morning she comes out for cuddles and play time and doesnt go back in till i go to bed, i do have alot of time to spend with her but i just think shes lonley/bored she follow me around and nudges me if im not patting her enough, thankyou for all your help

If you do get her a friend I would get another bunny. Guinea pigs have a very different diet then rabbits have. Rabbits are also food hogs. I have seen pictures of rescued rabbit/g-pig pairs and the rabbits are usually obese and the pigs are skin and bones.
I got a 2nd bunny and waiting for his neuter too heal then I will bond my 2, they have met between bars and groom each other and lay down beside each other so I think they will be ok to bond

Iv had G-pigs before so there not that complicated for me, i guess it just depends if i can find one that i like plus that bella likes, am going out to the RSPCA shelter soon to see if she will get along with any out there and see whats out there, thought that would be a good idea?

Can you try bonding her with a rescue bun, and if it doesn't work, trading that bun for another? Our bun rescue does that. She'll "loan" you a bonder bun, and if it doesn't work out, you can try another bun until 1st bun has a friend.

yeah i could try it just would depend wether the RSPCA shelter would do that i guess i could ask, that would be the better option, and plus i dont like the buns just sitting there waiting for a home, if i could give one of them a home i will

I am going to do the same thing, when I get Rikki Tikki neutered. Go to my local rabbit shelter and take rikki tikki with me and let him choose his buddy.

A bun would be prefect if they get along watching them run around with each other or chill out and groom each other. SO CUTE!
I've desperately been trying to convince my mum to let me adopt a friend bun for my girl. I try to spend as much time as I can with her, talk to her and stroke her when I feed her and let her run around when the weather is nice. But my room faces the garden and when im getting ready for bed or about to leave for college I look out the window and she just lays there looking all lonely and bored
I keep trying to convince my mum but no luck yet D: but I wont give up

Yes, get another bunny, they'll be sooo cute together!! :hearts:

Personally, none of my rabbits get along with others. We've tried, but our just dislike other buns, although I think having the other rabbits just being in the room helps because they can still socialise but not attack each other. I highly disagree with comments that say "a rabbit cannot live alone" because it is totally possible to have a rabbit alone and be happy.

However, do NOT house her with a guinea pig. They're diets are different and it is more complicated to work out then you think, not to mention a rabbit can easily harm a GP. Once, we wondered about having a guinea pig with a bunny because our one rabbit Frost seemed to like them through the cage so we put her in with Mimzy, who we thought was her favorite. It wasn't 2 minutes before poor Mimzy had a rip along the entire length of her ear from Frost.

Really, housing GP's and rabbits together is a bad idea. Have her spayed, get her a nice, nuetered boy, and got that route.

Im not having her spayed as i plan on breeding with her so thats def out of the quesion

If she is not getting spayed I would not get her a friend. Hormonal females can get quite nasty and if they get mad they can easily hurt another animal.
If you breed her then spay her and look at getting her a rabbit friend.

what i mean by breeding is she's going to be my main breeding famale, she loves other rabbits just the male i have now doesnt like her at all oh well

Tahlia.Evans wrote:

what i mean by breeding is she's going to be my main breeding famale, she loves other rabbits just the male i have now doesnt like her at all oh well

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What type of rabbit is she? And how old is she?

well i got told shes a netherland dwaf but a lot of other people think shes a holland lop, and at the moment shes only about 2 months so i still have a while to wait before i can breed with her, and i wont for a while anyway

Do you not have her papers? I would discourage breeding just for breeding's sake, particularly if your rabbit is not pedigreed.

Pharfly wrote:

If she is not getting spayed I would not get her a friend. Hormonal females can get quite nasty and if they get mad they can easily hurt another animal.
If you breed her then spay her and look at getting her a rabbit friend.

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Yes, Females can get real nasty and mean, I have a few that get nasty when pregnant and after having babies, They try to bite me threw the cage, And when feeding better watch your hands, (Just because they ready to be bred or when they pregnant and having babies!