Hello all , I am having some trouble with my previously bonded bunnies. I have 2 bunnies, a spayed female, and a neutered Male, they are about 2 and a half, were neutered and spayed before a year of age, and have been bonded for almost a year now. My female was alone, so we adopted the Male from a bunny shelter. Anyways, their bonding was pretty easy, they were bonded within 3 weeks after daily work and attention, and up until yesterday, they got along flawlessly.
There have been no changes to their environment, both are seemingly healthy and active, and they haven't been seperate at all for any reason.
Yesterday morning, I heard a scuffle, and they were chasing each other in what I have to assume was a bunny tornado, I made a loud noise, they stopped, chunks of hair everywhere, but no injuries to the skin. I observed them for a while and noticed they were uptight, so I packed them in their crate and took them on a vacation to the basement, I set up a corral for them and they spent the next 5 hours together, the basement is a place neither of them are familiar with. They didn't have an issue at all for those 5 hours, so in the evening, I put them back upstairs in their enclosure , and honestly it appears as if they had made up completely, everything looked great.
This morning, with a night of no incident, I was hopeful, but then late morning, another scuffle , not as bad as the last, but obvious chasing behavior , so I again took them to the basement , left them there many hours, and now I set up 2 xxl dog crates in my living room, and put them side.by side instead of together.
Their normal enclosure is an xxl dog crate with an added level, they are both tiny, under 4 lbs, they stay in when we aren't home and at night , but can come out to our first floor other times.
So am I taking the right steps? Do I just give them a few hours a day for a while ? How long should that continue? While together downstairs they aren't showing any aggressive signs at all.
Help!!!
Kelly
There have been no changes to their environment, both are seemingly healthy and active, and they haven't been seperate at all for any reason.
Yesterday morning, I heard a scuffle, and they were chasing each other in what I have to assume was a bunny tornado, I made a loud noise, they stopped, chunks of hair everywhere, but no injuries to the skin. I observed them for a while and noticed they were uptight, so I packed them in their crate and took them on a vacation to the basement, I set up a corral for them and they spent the next 5 hours together, the basement is a place neither of them are familiar with. They didn't have an issue at all for those 5 hours, so in the evening, I put them back upstairs in their enclosure , and honestly it appears as if they had made up completely, everything looked great.
This morning, with a night of no incident, I was hopeful, but then late morning, another scuffle , not as bad as the last, but obvious chasing behavior , so I again took them to the basement , left them there many hours, and now I set up 2 xxl dog crates in my living room, and put them side.by side instead of together.
Their normal enclosure is an xxl dog crate with an added level, they are both tiny, under 4 lbs, they stay in when we aren't home and at night , but can come out to our first floor other times.
So am I taking the right steps? Do I just give them a few hours a day for a while ? How long should that continue? While together downstairs they aren't showing any aggressive signs at all.
Help!!!
Kelly
