Marie_Chubbers_Willow
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Hello everyone,
So my two rabbits Chubbers and Willow were and excellent pair before Chubbers got neutered. I took him to the vet the other day and was told everything was healing perfectly fine and I could start having them play together again. I had kept Chubbers in a small separate enclosure to heal. Previously they shared a play pen and big litter box. They groomed each other, cuddled, and shared food. Willow took the submissive role very easily in the past. But now that introduced Chubbers back into Willow in my living room all hell broke loose. They circled and RIPPED each other's hair out! I separated them immediately. The second time they got a long and I decided to connect the cage and the large play pen so they could share the space and cleaned it out VERY well to reduce territorial tendencies. They did very very well so I decided it'll be fine for the night. I realized this was a mistake...I woke up and Willow was out of the play pen (jumped out I assume) so I put her back in and immediately Chubbers went to mount which started the circling behavior again and soon started the biting. I separated them. Two separate cages, I then went to work and tried to let them out at the same time to clean their areas and this time it was bad twice I had to separate the fighting and I actually got bit on the hand twice. It drew blood once on me. I have checked my rabbits and see no wounds but I may have to take a closer look. Long story short I don't know what to do. Keeping them separate is not sustainable especially since the healing cage isn't big enough in my opinion for a permanent housing. I do not have the space in my one bedroom apartment to house them separately comfortably. As I said previously they were bonded before. I'm afraid that they just hate each other now and the bond is forever broken....HELP. I'm a fairly new rabbit mom.
So my two rabbits Chubbers and Willow were and excellent pair before Chubbers got neutered. I took him to the vet the other day and was told everything was healing perfectly fine and I could start having them play together again. I had kept Chubbers in a small separate enclosure to heal. Previously they shared a play pen and big litter box. They groomed each other, cuddled, and shared food. Willow took the submissive role very easily in the past. But now that introduced Chubbers back into Willow in my living room all hell broke loose. They circled and RIPPED each other's hair out! I separated them immediately. The second time they got a long and I decided to connect the cage and the large play pen so they could share the space and cleaned it out VERY well to reduce territorial tendencies. They did very very well so I decided it'll be fine for the night. I realized this was a mistake...I woke up and Willow was out of the play pen (jumped out I assume) so I put her back in and immediately Chubbers went to mount which started the circling behavior again and soon started the biting. I separated them. Two separate cages, I then went to work and tried to let them out at the same time to clean their areas and this time it was bad twice I had to separate the fighting and I actually got bit on the hand twice. It drew blood once on me. I have checked my rabbits and see no wounds but I may have to take a closer look. Long story short I don't know what to do. Keeping them separate is not sustainable especially since the healing cage isn't big enough in my opinion for a permanent housing. I do not have the space in my one bedroom apartment to house them separately comfortably. As I said previously they were bonded before. I'm afraid that they just hate each other now and the bond is forever broken....HELP. I'm a fairly new rabbit mom.