Sarah1991
Warren Veteran
Hi all,
We've had Fearne for a little while now, she's been spayed more than long enough for hormones to have calmed down, we even went as far as to buy a brand new home for her and Finnlay so they were on neutral ground when we were bonding them. It seemed to be going well, they had been in the hutch and run together for almost a week, before one morning they had a big scuffle over food and Finn got his foot bitten.
Since then, we've tried twice more to put them together, with little success, they seem to do OK for a few days each time and then suddenly erupt into a fight over seemingly nothing, although usually I feel its food motivated, food is scattered its literally as soon as they know they are getting fed the fighting starts, Fearne seems very attached to her food, I wonder if it comes from having rubbish food where she came from.
I'm at a bit of a loss, they just seem to greatly dislike each other now, I'm wondering what I should do, at the moment Finn is in the bottom of the hutch and run and Fearne is in the top and i'm swapping them daily so one isn't in the smaller bit too long, I'd like to say we can afford another hutch and run but we just can't, this one was around £300-400 (I spent birthday savings on it) and its just not possible. I'm also feeling rotten because I'm constantly getting the ''I told you not to get another rabbit'' talk from my other half and my family, I thought I was doing the right thing, I didn't want Finn to be alone, but now I feel I've made the wrong decision and maybe he only wanted to be with Milo and he isn't willing to accept another rabbit?
If I had known that Finn wouldn't have liked another partner I'd have maybe decided to leave him as a single bunny, but obviously I didn't think that was the best at the time.
I don't know, I'm feeling pretty low about it all.
I feel like a terrible bunny parent.
I miss Milo.
We've had Fearne for a little while now, she's been spayed more than long enough for hormones to have calmed down, we even went as far as to buy a brand new home for her and Finnlay so they were on neutral ground when we were bonding them. It seemed to be going well, they had been in the hutch and run together for almost a week, before one morning they had a big scuffle over food and Finn got his foot bitten.
Since then, we've tried twice more to put them together, with little success, they seem to do OK for a few days each time and then suddenly erupt into a fight over seemingly nothing, although usually I feel its food motivated, food is scattered its literally as soon as they know they are getting fed the fighting starts, Fearne seems very attached to her food, I wonder if it comes from having rubbish food where she came from.
I'm at a bit of a loss, they just seem to greatly dislike each other now, I'm wondering what I should do, at the moment Finn is in the bottom of the hutch and run and Fearne is in the top and i'm swapping them daily so one isn't in the smaller bit too long, I'd like to say we can afford another hutch and run but we just can't, this one was around £300-400 (I spent birthday savings on it) and its just not possible. I'm also feeling rotten because I'm constantly getting the ''I told you not to get another rabbit'' talk from my other half and my family, I thought I was doing the right thing, I didn't want Finn to be alone, but now I feel I've made the wrong decision and maybe he only wanted to be with Milo and he isn't willing to accept another rabbit?
If I had known that Finn wouldn't have liked another partner I'd have maybe decided to leave him as a single bunny, but obviously I didn't think that was the best at the time.
I don't know, I'm feeling pretty low about it all.
I feel like a terrible bunny parent.
I miss Milo.
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