Thank you everybon for your kind comments and positive vibes. Our friend at the rescue centre has sent us a new update today following yesterday when they used a double mesh guard system to allow open access (no direct contact) and both bunnies behaved impeccably. Indeed, 'Alex' was noted as being 'so excited he wanted to jump into Flo's area and say hi-de-hi' - but of course the mesh guards are too high for safety reasons so both bunnies had to settle for a sniff and a better look. Flo is playing it cool but this doesn't stop me worrying about her because of her previous behaviour with another bunny.
However, todays update makes for extremely pleasant reading and we are very much heartened by this. This is todays update....
"Please find attached screenshot from this afternoon’s ‘single grille’ action – both played it very cool (although I’m sure Alex would hop right in and want to be friends in the blink of an eye!), touched noses, sniffed each other, followed each other along the grille and were then happy to hop away and leave each other to it, both returning to the grille to say hi as and when.
We’ll be continuing with the supervised single grille set-up over the weekend to make sure that all is well, and then still the double grille when left alone so that they maintain that space between them to keep them feeling comfortable.
If all goes OK over the weekend, we’ll then look to have the single grille set-up as a permanent fixture (including overnight) and start looking to do face-to-face intros.
Flo’s favourite perch is sunbathing on the low window ledge in her pen, surveying our back field area through her window grate!"
So Flo has been there exactly a week now, and things are very quiet here in her absence but if I am being brutally honest with everybun, in my own opinion this bonding option was the only one that could have worked for Flo - much to my own personal disapointment because I would have very much wanted to have bonded her here. But the important thing in all this is that Flo has a companion in a safe and structured environment and she is getting this. So, hopefully in maybe a week to 10 days time, we may well be in a position to have Flo and hopefully new bun as well.
I will update you all next week when we get more updates.
CRaig x