sunflower4357
Young Bun
Hey everyone :wave:
Sorry this will probably be a long post
Not sure if you lot remember how worried I was about sophie and fluffy bonding, well i finally took the plunge and decided the weekend was the time to do it. :roll:
the background of it is, sophie is about a year and a half neutered and fluffy is about a years old neautered. They both have been living side by side in seperate cages for about 4 months now and they go side by side in the runs everyday to.
I used the neutral area of the bathroom for their bonding time and lets just say I was shocked! I had big thick gloves and a brush ready incase they faught, they didnt fight once, I was so pleased. Initially I was going to keep them together for 15 minutes but it turned into 2 hours as they seemed to be getting on so well. They just lied together and sophie bowed down to him a lot (I wouldve thought she would be the most dominant one - i was wrong!) :shock:
The following day I put them in the same place and they stayed there for 6 hours, him on top of her protecting her and her following him everywhere making sure he knew she was there, they even started grooming eachother and couldnt get enough of eachother.
After their six hours though I was so confident that they were great that I put them in the big hutch (which currently sophie is staying in for this week) and they were fine for the first few minutes until sophie started chasing him, i could tell she was about to attack so wuickly took her out. :?
Im going to try and put them both back into the bathroom again for long periods of time everyday this week and then friday attempt to put them in the hutch again.
This time i will clean the hutch with vinegar thoroughly and hope for the best, does anyone else have any other advice on what i could do? The thing with sophie is I was so sure she was going to do that even before she did it becuase she is really protective like that.
In the end I put her in his cage and him in hers (the big one) so hoping she gets the message they both got to share. :roll:
Sorry this will probably be a long post
Not sure if you lot remember how worried I was about sophie and fluffy bonding, well i finally took the plunge and decided the weekend was the time to do it. :roll:
the background of it is, sophie is about a year and a half neutered and fluffy is about a years old neautered. They both have been living side by side in seperate cages for about 4 months now and they go side by side in the runs everyday to.
I used the neutral area of the bathroom for their bonding time and lets just say I was shocked! I had big thick gloves and a brush ready incase they faught, they didnt fight once, I was so pleased. Initially I was going to keep them together for 15 minutes but it turned into 2 hours as they seemed to be getting on so well. They just lied together and sophie bowed down to him a lot (I wouldve thought she would be the most dominant one - i was wrong!) :shock:
The following day I put them in the same place and they stayed there for 6 hours, him on top of her protecting her and her following him everywhere making sure he knew she was there, they even started grooming eachother and couldnt get enough of eachother.
After their six hours though I was so confident that they were great that I put them in the big hutch (which currently sophie is staying in for this week) and they were fine for the first few minutes until sophie started chasing him, i could tell she was about to attack so wuickly took her out. :?
Im going to try and put them both back into the bathroom again for long periods of time everyday this week and then friday attempt to put them in the hutch again.
This time i will clean the hutch with vinegar thoroughly and hope for the best, does anyone else have any other advice on what i could do? The thing with sophie is I was so sure she was going to do that even before she did it becuase she is really protective like that.
In the end I put her in his cage and him in hers (the big one) so hoping she gets the message they both got to share. :roll: