Our two bunnies (brothers) were neutered on Thursday at 14 weeks old. Until then no issues between them at all. We collected them from the vets Fri afternoon and they both seemed fine & happily ran about, eating etc.
Around 10pm they were lying together then suddenly fighting. We happened to be in the room and were able to relatively quickly separate them but in that short time fur was all over the floor of their pen and one had quite a bad cut to its face.
Was extremely scary to witness and really don’t want to risk that happening again. The vet who’s a rabbit specialist isn’t in until end of next week. We saw another vet yesterday to check the cut and also the operation site of both. She advised keeping them separate but in sight/sniffing distance for 6 weeks until hormones balanced then trying to rebond them. From reading through threads here that seems to be the advice others have been given.
My husband can only build/adapt their pen today as no time in week.
He is going to build a separating ‘wall’ between them using 13mm welded cage mesh. Is one layer sufficient so that in theory the rabbits could lie next to each other. Or, even with such small mesh should we have a double mesh with few centimetres in between?
Thanks in advance for any advice x
Around 10pm they were lying together then suddenly fighting. We happened to be in the room and were able to relatively quickly separate them but in that short time fur was all over the floor of their pen and one had quite a bad cut to its face.
Was extremely scary to witness and really don’t want to risk that happening again. The vet who’s a rabbit specialist isn’t in until end of next week. We saw another vet yesterday to check the cut and also the operation site of both. She advised keeping them separate but in sight/sniffing distance for 6 weeks until hormones balanced then trying to rebond them. From reading through threads here that seems to be the advice others have been given.
My husband can only build/adapt their pen today as no time in week.
He is going to build a separating ‘wall’ between them using 13mm welded cage mesh. Is one layer sufficient so that in theory the rabbits could lie next to each other. Or, even with such small mesh should we have a double mesh with few centimetres in between?
Thanks in advance for any advice x