My bunnies bond broke :s

[Marrie]

Yesterday they were being fine together, woke them up to them both cuddling, they came in and ate some hay, ran around the living room... then poof Stickers decided she hates Powder totally randomly (he was eating hay, she was laying down under the bird cage) and attacked him, he screamed and ran from her, she chased and pulled out a chunk of his fur before I could grab her up!

I let them have a night to cool off, then tried to reintroduce him to her slowly and she went after him again. So they are living apart.

She is such a little brat, I swear. He puts up with her, lets her steal food from his mouth, lets her have all his favorite sleeping spots, lets her have a large portion of pellets (more than he gets), grooms her before himself (she never grooms him) every night, lets her do binkies on top of him without saying a word and all he ever does when she's being pushy/naggy is kiss her. And this is how she repays him! Gah. Even now that she's attacked him twice, all he tries to do when he sees her is go kiss her.

[Albe]

Maybe its a hormonal thing?? Sounds strange. Hopefully they don't stay like this

[Marrie]

They are both altered, so they don't have hormone issues - if I want them to live together again, I am going to have to start the bonding process over from step 1 again. Not sure if I want to or not though, since she's so much a bully to him and he's such a good bunny he can be free roam like a cat or dog if she's not around (she is a wild thing, destroys carpet and forgets her litter habits, so she can't be free roam).

[boomer girl]

It is strange that all the sudden she is like this to him so I would say what Mell said and perhaps its hormones acting up and it dont matter to her that she is fixed because she just wants to act like a you know what anyways. Or do you think perhaps she is jealous that he gets to roam the house free and she cant? I hope they go back to being buddies soon because you cant have her ripping his fur off, poor guy

[Marrie]

He wasn't free roam, until she started being a brat to him - they both lived in the master bedroom which was converted into a bunny paradise (wood floors so she couldn't destroy more carpet, but toys, tunnels, closet turned into a den, etc) and were let out together everyday when I got up so I could stop her eating carpet. I'm on a bunny forum where there are some "rabbit bonders" (people who do it for their job/have people bring over buns to have them bonded by a professional) and they say it is very weird for a bond to just break. So, gonna rule out health issues, but she's always been a you-know-what, just to a lesser degree. She's a big bully selfish brat who wants everything her way and nothing else matters to her, she'll even grunt/charge/bite me if I am doing something "wrong" so who knows - maybe Powder didn't bring her enough gifts, or had his paw out too far in front of his other paw, with her can't really tell! (she's a total Diva)

The rabbit bonding people say to let them be apart for a while and then start from step 1 of bonding, so *sigh* looks like it's going to be a long effort (possibly months) to repair the fight.

She did just hit a year old, so she is going through "bunny puberty" but typically it isn't that big an issue if the rabbit is spayed. o.O

Thanks guys, I hope when I do start bonding again they'll remember they love each other! lol

[Birdmanca]

Sounds like a domestic violence victim. I am surprised the rabbit acts so nice after being treated so poorly. I would put them in seperate cages.

[Marrie]

They don't live in cages, they have a bunny room (free roam) - none of my animals live in cages, except the bird has to sleep in a cage (and the few times I go out, since I don't work) since he has night frights and it's not safe but Powder is living in the living room/bedroom and she's in the bunny room for now.

[Pipers Mom]

Marie, your bunnies are keeping you busy for sure. Do rabbits go through terrible 2 like stages?

[Marrie]

They always keep me busy! they are as much work as a dog, that is for sure. They don't have terrible 2s, but they do have a "teenager" phase, she's still really young so has a lot of "rabbitude". He's middle aged, so calm and docile. It's kind of like she's a 19 year old married to a 50 year old.

Yesterday she escaped from the room she's in and she wasn't attacking Powder. But she was acting like she didn't know him at all. She started dropping marking all over the room cause it smelled like him and he was following her around sniffing her. *shrug* They are now considered perfect strangers to each other again. But at least they aren't attacking.

Powder has decided the bed is his though since he's free roam again. Every night and every morning he does zoomies on the bed while i'm up there and last night I spooked him cause he was sleeping on the bed and I rolled over and didn't realize it and crowded him.

[Pipers Mom]

Rabittude Happy to hear that Stickers isn't attacking Powder. But it does make me think of which could be worse, terrible two's or teens.. Sometimes, I think one can be just as bad as the other..

[Marrie]

Hehe yeah, probably about the same - she's nearing the end of the age for that phase though.

Powder was about to go into the kitchen just now (he's not supposed to, but the baby gate was a little away from the wall so he was about to squeeze through) and my tiel saw it and squawked out his warning call and Powder ran back the other way like "what? I wasn't doing anything!"

[Birdmanca]

I agree with what you said about notbeing in cages. When my birds are out of the cage, I let them return on their own. That is where the food and millet. They do not like to be chased around and returned to a cage, they like to go there when they wish to. Actually, the best lufe for their normal exercise, is to be free in the wild and not stuck in a cage.

[Marrie]

Some random cuteness for this thread.