At the moment I have my 2 house rabbits Poppy & Tulip who are sisters and aged 4 years old. At the age of 2 they started fighting, so I had to keep them in separate pens after various attempts of rebonding them failed. Mornings and evenings they exercise together indoors and outdoors and sit and clean each other and you wouldn't think anything is wrong, but Tulip can turn on Poppy at anytime, so I have to be there all the time.
I now have my outhouse building adjusted to set up pens for bonding sessions and I am also having a 12ft by 6ft shed/run built in my garden in order to have more rabbits.
Which of the following do you think would be best:
1) With Poppy and Tulip, would it be best to introduce one male to them and do you think this may stop them fighting and then i can slowly introduce the 3 of them living outside in the new enclosure?
2) Or would it be best to introduce a male each to them and keeping one pair indoors and the other pair outdoors (but I would feel heartbroken in them having to always be apart from each other there onwards)?
3) Or would the easiest option be to leave poppy & tulip as they are now and get 2 bonded rabbits for the new enclosure?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as my head is spinning here!
Thank you
I now have my outhouse building adjusted to set up pens for bonding sessions and I am also having a 12ft by 6ft shed/run built in my garden in order to have more rabbits.
Which of the following do you think would be best:
1) With Poppy and Tulip, would it be best to introduce one male to them and do you think this may stop them fighting and then i can slowly introduce the 3 of them living outside in the new enclosure?
2) Or would it be best to introduce a male each to them and keeping one pair indoors and the other pair outdoors (but I would feel heartbroken in them having to always be apart from each other there onwards)?
3) Or would the easiest option be to leave poppy & tulip as they are now and get 2 bonded rabbits for the new enclosure?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as my head is spinning here!
Thank you