Took disabled bunny freeda home to live free range in my room with Bilbo, they got on fine. After freeda sadly died Gypsy came home with us a few months later, they got on fine after Bilbo died I introduced a baby Storm to an adult Gypsy, discovered RU was told that this is not the usual way but it worked out OK after a few weeks ( phew ! ) but THEN there was that famous incident when I thought I'd be clever and rescue a 3rd and we know how that worked out it can work magic. it looks like magic is happening right here YAY!awww
They look so beautiful together
I never knew what the rules were years ago. I just rescued a bunny and put them in my bedroom with another bunny and it always worked out
Rules can be broken sometimes
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An initial attempt as per 'the rules' ie a small totally neutral enclosure away from other Rabbits ended in disaster. Dermot is a hump maniac and Aisling was having none of it. Both Rabbits have health issues, Aisling Dental Disease, Dermot a GI tract problem. So the last thing I wanted was for them to get too stressed.
I left them as next door neighbours and they would happily sleep pressed up against each other as long as there was a partition between them. Then after a few weeks I took the dividing panel between the enclosures out when I was in with them mucking out. There was some humping from Dermot but as long as I remained in the enclosure Aisling would chose to hop away from him rather than try to kill him. After a bit more time they both tended to settle in the same spot, slap bang in the middle of the two enclosures. So for increasing lengths of time I would confine them both to this area which they had decided was shared. I gradually moved the boundaries of the shared area outwards until the two enclosures became one without either of them noticing !!
So, no neutral territory, lots of being together, then separating, lots of hands on intervention (and endless chatter
It has probably taken me almost 3 months in total.
