I have 2 male neutered buns who are about 1 1/2 now. They have always been together and although I was nervous that they may not awlays get on they have always seemed very happy together. They sleep next to each other and spend hours grooming each other. There has always been an established relationship that one of them is the dominant one and the other more submissive and this seemed to suit them fine.
6 months ago I moved house and the boys became house rabbits. They seemed to happy to be inside and binky EVERYWHERE and I thought it was the best thing that I had ever done.
Magnus (who has always been much shyer then his brother) has grown in confidence and will now come and sit on my knee just like his brother.
However, last nigth something awful happened. They were particicually excitable and there more binkys than I had ever seen. but then one of them landed on the other ones head and they just started scraping. There was quite a bit of fur pulling before I managed to seperate them. I have checked them both over and they don't seem to have injured each other but there was ALOT of fur everywhere. They both appeared very shaken up and sat seperatly for quite a while with Lucius retreating to the cage. after that he wouldn't let Magnus go into the cage and was being extremely terriotoral, assuming the "fight" pose everytime he came near.
I decided to seperate them and they slept apart last night because i was too worried about leaving them together.
I attempted to reintroduce them this morning but as soon as they saw each other they strated fighting again, more fur pulling etc.
I thought I would attempt putting them together agin tonight (neutral territory etc) but I am really worried that this could be the end of their relaitonship.
has anyone got any advice? I know so many people say you can't keep even neutred males together but until now I have never had any problem.
The sad reality, which breaks my heart to type this, is that if I cannot put them back together I may have to rehome one of them. I simpy do not have the space to have them seperate and I would also hate them to be lonely.
Sorry for rambling on, I just thought as much detial as possible was best.
thanks
Dawn (a very worried bunny mum)
6 months ago I moved house and the boys became house rabbits. They seemed to happy to be inside and binky EVERYWHERE and I thought it was the best thing that I had ever done.
Magnus (who has always been much shyer then his brother) has grown in confidence and will now come and sit on my knee just like his brother.
However, last nigth something awful happened. They were particicually excitable and there more binkys than I had ever seen. but then one of them landed on the other ones head and they just started scraping. There was quite a bit of fur pulling before I managed to seperate them. I have checked them both over and they don't seem to have injured each other but there was ALOT of fur everywhere. They both appeared very shaken up and sat seperatly for quite a while with Lucius retreating to the cage. after that he wouldn't let Magnus go into the cage and was being extremely terriotoral, assuming the "fight" pose everytime he came near.
I decided to seperate them and they slept apart last night because i was too worried about leaving them together.
I attempted to reintroduce them this morning but as soon as they saw each other they strated fighting again, more fur pulling etc.
I thought I would attempt putting them together agin tonight (neutral territory etc) but I am really worried that this could be the end of their relaitonship.
has anyone got any advice? I know so many people say you can't keep even neutred males together but until now I have never had any problem.
The sad reality, which breaks my heart to type this, is that if I cannot put them back together I may have to rehome one of them. I simpy do not have the space to have them seperate and I would also hate them to be lonely.
Sorry for rambling on, I just thought as much detial as possible was best.
thanks
Dawn (a very worried bunny mum)