Unspayed Female Humping Neutered Male

Hello all,

We're trying to bond an unspayed female with a neutered male, all seems to be fine up to now, we've had them able to touch noses through cages/runs and all is showing good signs according to what we've read online.

Now the male is fine to start bonding as it has been over 6 weeks since the neutering. When we put them together the female is quite relentless when it comes to humping, sometimes she pushes her head under his and if we stroke them both together they both will lay down and accept the strokes but if we stop stroking them the male will be fine and just sniff but the female with try to hump him and doesn't seem to give up, we left them around 10 seconds but it seemed like she could have been scratching him with her nails when climbing on top of him so we split them up, the male just lets her do it with no running away or attacking back. We are unsure whether or not to let her carry on and hopefully once she asserts her dominance this will stop or is this a problem that will continue until she is spayed?

How should we go about continuing the bonding, she is getting neutered on the 27th but we would prefer to start the bonding process of them being together before that.

Hi there. Are you bonding them in a neutral space? How long have you had your female and how old is she

We've had the male much longer, they aren't in a neutral space they are in there normal play space but together this time, she doesn't seem to be doing much more than humping, should we try in a neutral space?

She's probably a year old now and only had her a few months, but we've had the male much longer.

Personally I'd wait until she has been spayed. You may find that the bonding process induces her to ovulate and consequently have a pseudopregnancy. This would make the spay a higher risk procedure as her uterus would be engorged with blood vessels.

You really need to use a neutral area as female rabbits are very territorial and she may consider the space to be hers, this maybe is why she is humping him. Neutering is very advisable but it doesn't necessarily get in the way of bonding and as you had your male rabbit first, then there shouldn't be a problem, as long as it's done on neutral territory.