Hi everyone,
New to this forum so I should introduce myself. My name is Keith, I currently live in Germany but am moving back to the UK in a few weeks. Luckily the quarantine laws have changed so I can bring my monkeys back. I have 2 bunnies, Lilly and Hazel, Arthur the Chinchilla and Lincolina the hamster. Now, to my problem...
Lilly and Hazel have been together since being very young. They had no problems until they reached about 6 months. Then Lilly started chasing Hazel around. Hazel was acting like Lilly was the devil incarnate trying to get away so now they are in 2 seperate cages. When they get let out (which is for a good 5 or 6 hours / day, more at the weekends) they can be very sweet together, petting and grooming each other, then Lilly decides she is going to hump Hazel and Hazel really doesn't like this. I should probably add they are both female. I know this is a dominance thing and Lilly is clearly very dominant (she is also the more curious and definitely the cheekier) but Hazel really doesn't appreciate it. What should I do? I don't want to seperate them totally.
Thanks in advance.
New to this forum so I should introduce myself. My name is Keith, I currently live in Germany but am moving back to the UK in a few weeks. Luckily the quarantine laws have changed so I can bring my monkeys back. I have 2 bunnies, Lilly and Hazel, Arthur the Chinchilla and Lincolina the hamster. Now, to my problem...
Lilly and Hazel have been together since being very young. They had no problems until they reached about 6 months. Then Lilly started chasing Hazel around. Hazel was acting like Lilly was the devil incarnate trying to get away so now they are in 2 seperate cages. When they get let out (which is for a good 5 or 6 hours / day, more at the weekends) they can be very sweet together, petting and grooming each other, then Lilly decides she is going to hump Hazel and Hazel really doesn't like this. I should probably add they are both female. I know this is a dominance thing and Lilly is clearly very dominant (she is also the more curious and definitely the cheekier) but Hazel really doesn't appreciate it. What should I do? I don't want to seperate them totally.
Thanks in advance.