SmokyJoe78
Mama Doe
Ok, bare with me....
We have a single boy bun, called Digby (was Humbug, from Angie at BARC) who we adopted to bond with Lulu - this didn't work out, and since Lulu has fought with 6 potential husbuns :shock: , we have decided to keep her as a single bunny. We have also decided to keep Digby (who is neutered) and find him a girlbun instead.
My O/H had a phonecall yesterday from a friend, who has a friend, with a 5 month old female rex, who they would like to rehome. I have seen a photo and she's lovely, but I think unspayed. We are going to see her this afternoon.
My dilemma is do we take her, in the hope that she'll bond with Digby (we have space to keep her singley short-term), but then I think we should get her spayed first. So that would mean spending the money on having her spayed and waiting until she'd recovered before knowing if they got on, or would it be ok to try them before this - I know she'd be more territorial if she's not spayed. Obviously, if they did bond we'd have her spayed later, but if it all goes wrong, we couldn't keep her as a single bun, but would have to try to rehome her ourselves.
What shall I do? The people seem happy for us to take her on a trial basis - I could try her with Digby and take it from there, but I don't want to create a problem (if I waited until she's spayed there's more chance they would bond?)....... Help!
We have a single boy bun, called Digby (was Humbug, from Angie at BARC) who we adopted to bond with Lulu - this didn't work out, and since Lulu has fought with 6 potential husbuns :shock: , we have decided to keep her as a single bunny. We have also decided to keep Digby (who is neutered) and find him a girlbun instead.
My O/H had a phonecall yesterday from a friend, who has a friend, with a 5 month old female rex, who they would like to rehome. I have seen a photo and she's lovely, but I think unspayed. We are going to see her this afternoon.
My dilemma is do we take her, in the hope that she'll bond with Digby (we have space to keep her singley short-term), but then I think we should get her spayed first. So that would mean spending the money on having her spayed and waiting until she'd recovered before knowing if they got on, or would it be ok to try them before this - I know she'd be more territorial if she's not spayed. Obviously, if they did bond we'd have her spayed later, but if it all goes wrong, we couldn't keep her as a single bun, but would have to try to rehome her ourselves.
What shall I do? The people seem happy for us to take her on a trial basis - I could try her with Digby and take it from there, but I don't want to create a problem (if I waited until she's spayed there's more chance they would bond?)....... Help!
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