matjoliver
Warren Scout
Hi, we have had our first rabbit, Gizmo since may and she was neutered in september. She started looking a bit lonely so we decided to get her a neutered male to share her time with.
We got Wolverine (Wolfie for short) from our local RSPCA in october and he had been neutered in septemeber also.
They are both the same age, Gizmo being a lionhead dwarf lop cross and Wolfie a pure lionhead.
we read loads of literature on bonding and they are living in seperate hutches right opposite each other so they can see each other. We have swapped food bowls, toys etc and have recently also swapped their hutches over.
we left it about a couple of weeks before an initial introduction - in the garage, with this being neutral. It didn't go too bad and we have been slowly trying to bond them ever since.
Yesterday seemed to go very well, with Gizmo flobbing out (liked she was tranced) constantly in front of wolfie, also bowing her head to him and being very (what looked like) submissive. Wolfie just doesn't seem interested though, he groomed her a bit yesterday (I think it was grooming and not nibbling), but they both seem very jumpy at this point.
Anyhow. After the success yesterday, we swopped the hutches over and tried them again today. Again all seemed ok to start with, the usual bit of chasing to start, then they got a bit more confident and even layed right next to each other for a bit.....
Then it all kicked off!!!!.. They both seem quite interested in sniffing each others genitals, but it doesn't normally go much further than that, but today they really started fighting, there was fur everywhere and they were in a head to genital position and seemed to really be going for each other. I had to step in with a broom and just about managed to break it up, but they went straight back in again at each other. We managed to seperate them and calm them down and put them back in their respective hutches.
What has gone wrong?!!!!
Are we doing something wrong?
Sorry about the long post, but I thought as much info as possible might help!
Thanks
We got Wolverine (Wolfie for short) from our local RSPCA in october and he had been neutered in septemeber also.
They are both the same age, Gizmo being a lionhead dwarf lop cross and Wolfie a pure lionhead.
we read loads of literature on bonding and they are living in seperate hutches right opposite each other so they can see each other. We have swapped food bowls, toys etc and have recently also swapped their hutches over.
we left it about a couple of weeks before an initial introduction - in the garage, with this being neutral. It didn't go too bad and we have been slowly trying to bond them ever since.
Yesterday seemed to go very well, with Gizmo flobbing out (liked she was tranced) constantly in front of wolfie, also bowing her head to him and being very (what looked like) submissive. Wolfie just doesn't seem interested though, he groomed her a bit yesterday (I think it was grooming and not nibbling), but they both seem very jumpy at this point.
Anyhow. After the success yesterday, we swopped the hutches over and tried them again today. Again all seemed ok to start with, the usual bit of chasing to start, then they got a bit more confident and even layed right next to each other for a bit.....
Then it all kicked off!!!!.. They both seem quite interested in sniffing each others genitals, but it doesn't normally go much further than that, but today they really started fighting, there was fur everywhere and they were in a head to genital position and seemed to really be going for each other. I had to step in with a broom and just about managed to break it up, but they went straight back in again at each other. We managed to seperate them and calm them down and put them back in their respective hutches.
What has gone wrong?!!!!
Are we doing something wrong?
Sorry about the long post, but I thought as much info as possible might help!
Thanks