cleverpony
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Hi all,
Can't remember if I posted here, but I adopted a little buck justbefore Christmas. He's now about 3.5 months old, vet would like to waituntil 6 months to neuter because he is so small (Holland Lop/?) butgave the go ahead to begin bonding, as my female Moxie is spayed. Theywere caged side by side for about a month over the Christmas holidays,and then I started the bonding process a few days ago - 2 sessions aday, one exploring the bathroom and one snuggling together with me infront of the TV at night. There seems to be a question of dominance - Iexpected my older bun, who is VERY assertive, to dominate the littleguy right away, based on their behaviour when caged close to each other- but he is FIESTY when they are out together! Things seemed to begoing well and she was even grooming him a little the night before last(though she is kind of rough and he jumps a bit when she gets him toohard), but last night they had a big fight - the kind where they bothlost their footing and fell over but wouldn't let go of each other,lots of growling but thankfully no injuries.
I made them quietly snuggle for as long as they could stand (about 3minutes afterwards) and then put them away - they growled at each otherquite a bit through the bars last night, but no attacking that I'maware of.
What do I do now?
Can't remember if I posted here, but I adopted a little buck justbefore Christmas. He's now about 3.5 months old, vet would like to waituntil 6 months to neuter because he is so small (Holland Lop/?) butgave the go ahead to begin bonding, as my female Moxie is spayed. Theywere caged side by side for about a month over the Christmas holidays,and then I started the bonding process a few days ago - 2 sessions aday, one exploring the bathroom and one snuggling together with me infront of the TV at night. There seems to be a question of dominance - Iexpected my older bun, who is VERY assertive, to dominate the littleguy right away, based on their behaviour when caged close to each other- but he is FIESTY when they are out together! Things seemed to begoing well and she was even grooming him a little the night before last(though she is kind of rough and he jumps a bit when she gets him toohard), but last night they had a big fight - the kind where they bothlost their footing and fell over but wouldn't let go of each other,lots of growling but thankfully no injuries.
I made them quietly snuggle for as long as they could stand (about 3minutes afterwards) and then put them away - they growled at each otherquite a bit through the bars last night, but no attacking that I'maware of.
What do I do now?