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Bonding your Bunnies
Monday, November 30, 2009
Being sociable animals, bunnies are just like humans. They enjoy love and friendship. If you have a single bunny, you definitely need to spend as much time as possible with your bunny, or else they will be lonely.
However, during the day, most of us are probably at work or in school. Many bunny owners thus try to introduce another bunny into the house so that both bunnies can enjoy each other's company. This same situation happened to me as well. After Cutie has been with me for one year, I was afraid that he might be bored and lonely while I was away in school. Imagine yourself facing the four corners of the wall every day. That's definitely boring!
Then, during the holidays, I happened to be reading through a forum post at
SG Club forums (Singapore Online Community) and chanced upon the opportunity to adopt a baby bunny. This baby bunny is now my other pet bunny, Sweetie (white rabbit).
After adopting her, another problem was faced. How can I bond them together? It might be seemingly easy, but there is also the risk of having unsuccessful bonding. Hence, I placed their cages facing each other as a starting point for the bunny bonding session.
It first started out with Sweetie being engrossed with her food and ignoring my other bunny's presence.
Only after lunch, she then started putting her face through the cage and looked at my other bunny.
With both bunnies being unfamiliar to each other, they stood still and looked at each other. Or was that a stare?
Finally, both of them came closer and got to know each other better.
After around one week, I let both of them out and they bonded really well!
To conclude, bunny bonding is important especially when you have more than one bunny. Without bunny bonding, there might be hostility between the bunnies as both of them are not tolerant of one another and demand for your attention.
There are many useful bunny guides that provide a better insight into bunny bonding. A detailed bunny bonding guide is featured in
House Rabbit Network. In this bunny guide, the author has provided a step-by-step explanation of what you can do to bond your bunnies. It was a helpful guide that I have used while bonding my own bunnies and I strongly recommend it to all of you.
On a side note, however, I feel that the bunny guide might be easier to read if there are illustrations used. As the saying goes, pictures speak more than a thousand words. It will be much easier to follow if there are more pictures in the bunny guide.
Love, joy and bunnies!
9:55 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
doesnt know bonding between rabbit can be unsuccessful.how will the rabbit react to show that it does not like the company of other rabbit?
Haha yes :) Just like everything else, there are two sides to bunny bonding. If a rabbit does not like the company of the other rabbit, they may attack each other by scratching.
There was once my aunt brought her rabbit over to 'make friends' with mine, but both of them disliked each other and kept trying to scratch each other and showing signs of aggression :(
Wow! I didnt know there is bunny bonding also. SO COOL LAH!
haha the bunny is damn cute.. love the pictures :D
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