Loz3005
New Kit
Hi everyone,
I've been reading on here a while but just joined at this is my first post. We need some helping with our trio bonding.
We had a pair originally, they have been a pair for about 18 months. Walrus, male about 7 and pebbles, female about 2. Walrus has all sorts wrong with him due to the people before not looking after him at all. He had overgrown teeth (hence the name) now all removed, head tilt, bad back, fleas, mites and worms and his back legs didn't work properly. Overall things are better but he is quite happy to sit and observe whereas pebbles is younger so wants to play. Pebbles has over groomed walrus is some areas so we thought about getting a third bunny so she had someone else to play with. We took them both back to the rescue we got them from and they got on best with dotty, female, one (all have been fixed btw).
We have tried everything since bringing them home, car rides, bathtub, smooshing, water pistol, loudly saying no bite etc, swapping rooms, swapping toys, swapping litter boxes and bedding, group bonding, pair bonding, vanilla on noses, rooms next to each other but we seem to be getting worse.
It started well, ignoring, little sniffing, next few days dotty flopping over and grooming pebbles ears. Pebbles groomed dotty once. From here it went all wrong and for no particular reason. Everything we do they start fighting. If they are next to each other they bite though the bars, if in the same pen a big fur pulling fight starts within seconds. we really don't know what to do. We tried all three together today and both girls were pulling turfs off fur out of walrus and where he has no teeth he can't do anything back. This did only go on for 10 seconds and then we separated. We really have no idea what to do. We don't want to give up but at the moment don't see any choice.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've been reading on here a while but just joined at this is my first post. We need some helping with our trio bonding.
We had a pair originally, they have been a pair for about 18 months. Walrus, male about 7 and pebbles, female about 2. Walrus has all sorts wrong with him due to the people before not looking after him at all. He had overgrown teeth (hence the name) now all removed, head tilt, bad back, fleas, mites and worms and his back legs didn't work properly. Overall things are better but he is quite happy to sit and observe whereas pebbles is younger so wants to play. Pebbles has over groomed walrus is some areas so we thought about getting a third bunny so she had someone else to play with. We took them both back to the rescue we got them from and they got on best with dotty, female, one (all have been fixed btw).
We have tried everything since bringing them home, car rides, bathtub, smooshing, water pistol, loudly saying no bite etc, swapping rooms, swapping toys, swapping litter boxes and bedding, group bonding, pair bonding, vanilla on noses, rooms next to each other but we seem to be getting worse.
It started well, ignoring, little sniffing, next few days dotty flopping over and grooming pebbles ears. Pebbles groomed dotty once. From here it went all wrong and for no particular reason. Everything we do they start fighting. If they are next to each other they bite though the bars, if in the same pen a big fur pulling fight starts within seconds. we really don't know what to do. We tried all three together today and both girls were pulling turfs off fur out of walrus and where he has no teeth he can't do anything back. This did only go on for 10 seconds and then we separated. We really have no idea what to do. We don't want to give up but at the moment don't see any choice.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.