Hi all
I was looking for advise as to whether my bonding is going ok. Until recently I had two male bonded bunnies, they had been together nearly 6 years and I bonded them myself. Unfortunately one of them passed away a few weeks ago, and the remaining bunny, dusky, seemed to be getting depressed so we adopted a new bunny, Escobar.
We got Escobar around a week ago, and started bonding straight away, we started out with 2-3 hour sessions twice a day, and as things were going well we put them together in a bonding pen in our living room 3 days ago.
Tonight we took the pen down and are letting them free roam our living room, however dusky seems obsessed with Escobar, constantly jumping and fur pulling, which Escobar runs away from. There has however been plenty of grooming between them as well as sleeping and eating together.
I’m now wondering if we’ve rushed the bonding? Or is this behaviour ok? Escobar doesn’t seem too bothered as he just runs off to eat more hay/flop/groom himself.
Any ideas would be most welcome!
Thanks!
I was looking for advise as to whether my bonding is going ok. Until recently I had two male bonded bunnies, they had been together nearly 6 years and I bonded them myself. Unfortunately one of them passed away a few weeks ago, and the remaining bunny, dusky, seemed to be getting depressed so we adopted a new bunny, Escobar.
We got Escobar around a week ago, and started bonding straight away, we started out with 2-3 hour sessions twice a day, and as things were going well we put them together in a bonding pen in our living room 3 days ago.
Tonight we took the pen down and are letting them free roam our living room, however dusky seems obsessed with Escobar, constantly jumping and fur pulling, which Escobar runs away from. There has however been plenty of grooming between them as well as sleeping and eating together.
I’m now wondering if we’ve rushed the bonding? Or is this behaviour ok? Escobar doesn’t seem too bothered as he just runs off to eat more hay/flop/groom himself.
Any ideas would be most welcome!
Thanks!