Two first paragraphs are just a recap/background thing, the question starts at the third one.
Got confused and didn't know if it is in the housing&environment section or nutrition&behaviour section, sooo i will write it in general discussion.
So, way back when I got Storm 06.06.2020 and Lümi 25.07.2020, i managed to get my dad to drive both to be neutered. Then i was struck with many hurdles and mishaps that may come with bonding. I was rushed so there were some pretty bad things but oh well, it's in the past and i won't be that stupid again, so...
I got them successfully bonded imo, they managed to go a week without harming eachother in their room, and could be trusted to spend full day-night-day cycles together. We had to move and their bond fell apart after a week in the new apartment. So we had to bring back the crate, which is now way too small to accomodate either of our buns at least semi-decently (sadly Lümi lacks the room to fully fully stretch without bumping into his litterbox or sticking his feet out the grids, he liked to jump into the condo with Storm in it, so he couldn't be trusted with just hanging around) but both get morethan the minimal amount of hours to get out their places and move around.
And as i was still thinking of what would happen in fall when we would have to move back here again, i thought that the best option at the moment would be considering a rebonding.
As far as i know, in order to rebond them, i would have to create a situation where they would not be able to see each other, or be in extremely close proximity, so that they could ''forget'' the other's existence. It would probably be ideal if they had separate rooms and an extra divider-room in between. And then i would dig up the vast spreads of the internet on how to bond rabbits, from scratch.
There is one thing that i'm not utterly happy about. Our cottage has three rooms and a kitchen (and a dust-covered but otherwise almost clean, vastly spacious, roomless second story), so definetly enough room to let buns have their own rooms, and one (the smaller one behind where Lümi used to stay) is technically still neutral territory as it has been cleaned and old furniture thrown out.
But dad insists that the boys be accomodated together in the smaller, spare room, with only, what i understood it to be, a cardboard separator. He's already mostly set up their pen area as well. Dad says that if they can't see each other, that would well be enough, but i beg to differ. They can surely smell each other and then will never even think of ''forgetting'' that the other bun is there, and it would also nullify the neutral territory effect. Yet, he won't listen to my explanations. So i was wondering, is it even possible to get a setup where they would ''forget'' each other without one of them having to move outside (to the shed) for a month? (I was pretty stubbornly determined to clean the upper floor and move one boy over there with myself, but 10 years of dust and no proper stairs make me wonder if there are any better options)
Got confused and didn't know if it is in the housing&environment section or nutrition&behaviour section, sooo i will write it in general discussion.
So, way back when I got Storm 06.06.2020 and Lümi 25.07.2020, i managed to get my dad to drive both to be neutered. Then i was struck with many hurdles and mishaps that may come with bonding. I was rushed so there were some pretty bad things but oh well, it's in the past and i won't be that stupid again, so...
I got them successfully bonded imo, they managed to go a week without harming eachother in their room, and could be trusted to spend full day-night-day cycles together. We had to move and their bond fell apart after a week in the new apartment. So we had to bring back the crate, which is now way too small to accomodate either of our buns at least semi-decently (sadly Lümi lacks the room to fully fully stretch without bumping into his litterbox or sticking his feet out the grids, he liked to jump into the condo with Storm in it, so he couldn't be trusted with just hanging around) but both get morethan the minimal amount of hours to get out their places and move around.
And as i was still thinking of what would happen in fall when we would have to move back here again, i thought that the best option at the moment would be considering a rebonding.
As far as i know, in order to rebond them, i would have to create a situation where they would not be able to see each other, or be in extremely close proximity, so that they could ''forget'' the other's existence. It would probably be ideal if they had separate rooms and an extra divider-room in between. And then i would dig up the vast spreads of the internet on how to bond rabbits, from scratch.
There is one thing that i'm not utterly happy about. Our cottage has three rooms and a kitchen (and a dust-covered but otherwise almost clean, vastly spacious, roomless second story), so definetly enough room to let buns have their own rooms, and one (the smaller one behind where Lümi used to stay) is technically still neutral territory as it has been cleaned and old furniture thrown out.
But dad insists that the boys be accomodated together in the smaller, spare room, with only, what i understood it to be, a cardboard separator. He's already mostly set up their pen area as well. Dad says that if they can't see each other, that would well be enough, but i beg to differ. They can surely smell each other and then will never even think of ''forgetting'' that the other bun is there, and it would also nullify the neutral territory effect. Yet, he won't listen to my explanations. So i was wondering, is it even possible to get a setup where they would ''forget'' each other without one of them having to move outside (to the shed) for a month? (I was pretty stubbornly determined to clean the upper floor and move one boy over there with myself, but 10 years of dust and no proper stairs make me wonder if there are any better options)