My housemate who co-owns Chaplin has finally realised she needs a friend. With work experience we won't be around much and obviously when we finish Uni hopefully we'll have jobs and whoever she lives with won't be able to give her the amount of attention she get now, since six people live in the house and she can go to four of us for attention as well as bugging the other two if she happens upon them!
We got her at 6 months old and assume she had been alone since she was with siblings, she's been spayed months but still appears to have a lot of attitude and can get a bit stompy with food!
How do you go about getting a friend?
We're thinking we'd need a neutered male (don't mind neutering him but obviously be a quicker process if he was already done), and we'd want him to be a similar age (she's about 13 months now) and either the same size or bigger (I believe she's a standard rex?).
Is this necessary? Could she have a younger, smaller companion? Would we be better off going with a very laid back male, or one with a bit of attitude?
Unfortunately, given the time frame we probably won't be able to get her a friend before work experience in 3 1/2 weeks, and I don't think it'd be worth trying because if they don't bond in that time frame they'd be limited to having introductions in the evening and it'd be difficult to accommodate both of them when we're not around (over the summer we would be able to have Chaplin in the house like usual and limit a new bun to a single room or alternate them, but Chaplin can't be out in the house for 8+ hours day when we can't give her attention and watch her).
We'd need the option of returning the rabbit if they didn't bond, or we'd need a rescue to attempt to bond her for us, I'm determined she will have a friend, but obviously there's a possibility of her not getting on with the first rabbit she meets.
We got her at 6 months old and assume she had been alone since she was with siblings, she's been spayed months but still appears to have a lot of attitude and can get a bit stompy with food!
How do you go about getting a friend?
We're thinking we'd need a neutered male (don't mind neutering him but obviously be a quicker process if he was already done), and we'd want him to be a similar age (she's about 13 months now) and either the same size or bigger (I believe she's a standard rex?).
Is this necessary? Could she have a younger, smaller companion? Would we be better off going with a very laid back male, or one with a bit of attitude?
Unfortunately, given the time frame we probably won't be able to get her a friend before work experience in 3 1/2 weeks, and I don't think it'd be worth trying because if they don't bond in that time frame they'd be limited to having introductions in the evening and it'd be difficult to accommodate both of them when we're not around (over the summer we would be able to have Chaplin in the house like usual and limit a new bun to a single room or alternate them, but Chaplin can't be out in the house for 8+ hours day when we can't give her attention and watch her).
We'd need the option of returning the rabbit if they didn't bond, or we'd need a rescue to attempt to bond her for us, I'm determined she will have a friend, but obviously there's a possibility of her not getting on with the first rabbit she meets.
