Bonding Bunnies 101 - Bonding Behaviors 

Just finished the most difficult bond ever. Territorial female with a lot of fear of everything, a history of trauma, and sight issues that make her instantly box at anything that comes remotely near her face (including the other bunny). I took it incredibly slow (3 entire months of pre bonding, then very slow incremental steps over the next 3 months). They just finished bonding a few weeks ago and they are both so much happier! I’m so glad I didn’t listen to people on a rabbit Facebook group that were telling me that my female was just a loner...she’s so much happier bonded and all the work was worth it!

Our boy groomed the female on the second day and the girly groomed him back the next day! They were insanely easy to bond

Oh my gosh I didn't know these were normal cuz I was bonding my buns and they were chasing and humping and I thought they will not bond going to give a second chance Thank you so much 🙏

Sterling is the cutest thing in the world

Hey hailey. I got a bunny in 2020 and I am so glad that I found your channel. You helped me so much so thank you. I hope you are well and your bunnies are good. Thank you

8:00 pause there and he looks like a look of bread 🍞 awwww it’s the cutest thing in the world!🥺

2 of mine have just had a fight that landed olin the emergency room, luckily she is okay and recovered. I shall do a video about it x

Thank you thank you thank you! I've been waiting for someone to provide a good, thorough bonding advice video!

Thank you for the captions! It makes it easier for me to follow

Thank you so much for posting this! It’s super helpful!!!

I am currently bonding my two buns! Fluffy is a male, and Coco is a female. They have a 2-3 year age gap, so I was a bit worried, but I noticed that Coco doesn’t see fluffy(who is smaller) as a threat, and on day three, both of them groomed each other! We only did 40 minutes of bonding in total during the 3 days and I think it is so great! I do know that it can all change in a snap, but it’s going well (for now) Thank you so much @101Rabbits I watched all ur vids on bonding!

Ahh I’m so early ily thank you for all your help!!!

Great tips! I’m just so grateful that my buns never lost their bond after being spayed!

Thank you for making this video because I can tell now the mistakes I was making. Right now my rabbits are in the bonding process and the are best friends except the fact that hump each other a lot, well one more then the other and it’s good to know that it’s normal and the fact that my rabbit bites the fur to hump. I also sat in the pen with them...which I won’t anymore. Thank you this will make my bonding easier!

Thank you 101Rabbits

I’m planning to bond my rabbit with another bunny sometime soon. I’ve never bonded rabbits before and your videos are very helpful! Thanks😀🐰

Your rabbits are so cute! I’ve subscribed and love watching your videos. 🐰😃🐾

I have a very timid and territorial dwarf bunny (2 yrs) and I recently got a 7 month old. Luckily I kept them in separate pens but my dwarf bunny IMMEDIATELY lunged at the other one. I'm so glad I watched your videos because I'm so new to bunny bonding! I'm going to wait till I can spay the 7 month old! Rn they are kept in separate areas but close so they can become familiar with one another scents and they are not in direct contact with one another!

Yay can’t wait to watch it 😃😄😁

Amazing, informative video!!!

I have three rabbits I’m trying to bond and it’s so hard, but this definitely helped me!!

Amazing video !!

Hello i have just started watching you yesterday and I already love your channel and i plan on getting two bunnies after i do all my research!

I like her hair color

Helped me so much! Tysm🥰

Some really good advice

im so early yay! I was litterly just watching your last video again.

Thank you so much for the tips :) very useful video

Great advice, thank you

Thank you so much have a bun-derf day !!!!

The vacuum 😂

My rescue sent me this video. Thank you!

Great video, thanks!!

Omg! I was just about to request this! I’m getting 2 males tomorrow!

Your first bounding video helpt mi a lot. Every bounding did go well with doing it step by step. And all with male rabbits. And bounding to groups of maile.

My buns are bonded now but always good to learn ☺️💛

Hey! I bonded my rabbits recently, and If I do another bond, I will use this video!

Hey big fan of you and your rabbits 🐇 plus

Hi Hayley I’m so early, I’ve never been this early, I just wanted to say I love your videos! 💛

You should talk about breed differences in behavior. It would be pretty interesting and I bet there are friendlier breeds (that are therefore easier to bond).

Tysm you testched me so much

So helpful

I just got a friend for my bunny Mochi. He’s a little white bunny I named it Sully. After my favorite character from Monster’s Inc. they were grooming each other and started mounting each other.

Ty sm

I like her hair

Thank u so much! for making this video instead of my bunny doing it to another bunny he does it to my dog bella and it's just so shoking!😯

Omg love yaaaaa soooooo much say hi to your buns for me please!!

Advice needed! Do you recommend getting the rabbits acquainted by smell/sight first (through swapping toys or putting them in side by side enclosures) or should they meet the first time ever in the carrier? Great series btw! Just got a second rabbit and we'll start the bonding process right after the one month healing period! Wish me luck!

Earlyyyyyyy does she respond

Oop I’m 3rd ty for making lots of rabbit/bunny videos I have two rabbits rn and ur vids help me a lot :D

So pretty much like teenage boy/girlfriend relationships 🤣

It's so funny to me that our little boy (Pinecone) was the only one who humped during bonding, but our little girl (Berry) is definitely in charge now. She'll take treats out of his mouth if we try to give him one first and she always demands that he groom her lol. It was months before I saw her groom him. But they love each other so much and she was the best thing we ever did for him. He's a very shy bun and she is the most outgoing bun I've ever seen. Pinecone is now so much more social and while he's never going to be the kind of bun who wants pets and cuddles, which is fine, he definitely likes head scritches and nuzzles us now.

Mine are already bonded (littermate brothers) they are about 3 mos old, and have started doing this to try and work out dominance, so thanks for the tips! I’m really trying to keep them safe doing this, and hoping it gets way better after they’re fixed! *also- I was just cleaning in their pen and tried using a dustpan, glad to see that’s a good method!! Also, mine are doing the circling and are taking turns w the mounting.. so ig they’re just both trying to be dominant

I would highly recommend having a bath towel handy which you can throw over a rabbit should fighting start and you can’t stop it with the dust pan! Rabbits typically stop in their tracks when you cover them with a towel.

Love you're videos can you make a 101 rabbits store tour

The ra bit says "Git that dust pan away from me hooman! One more time and I'm gonna make your leg muh business and we don't want that do we?"

Just bonded my female rabbit with a new male. Both are fixed. They fought in the beginning but figured who was dominant pretty quick. Now a month later they Joy of watching them love on eachother is worth it.

Nice

currently have my two who try eating each other through there cages in a box and they are literally cuddling right now this worked !!

It’s weird my rabbits were not neutered and they both just went to each other and snuggled and were binking, no humping at all lol

when I got my 2nd bunny couple months ago, i put my 1st bunny, sage, in her little home base and locked it. they kept going to each other through the bars and would touch their noses together, and start licking each other. honestly, it was the easiest bonding i had ever seen. only took me a few days.

I feel sorry for the bottom rabbit. He/She shouldn’t have to endure that over and over and over. Talk about traumatic. What if the rabbit being humped is a 3-6 month old baby and the humper is an adult-like 2-3 yrs old? Is this age difference and older female to baby male ok to attempt to bond? This is one of THE best videos you have ever produced, Haley! Incredibly helpful. I’m going to post it in some FB groups. Thank you!

I got so lucky with my bunnies. It didn't take long for them go be cuddling each other. No thumping, nipping, humping or bitting. Though i cleaned everything before i put them together in the cage. And everything was new. Like the water and food bowl. The only thing my old female rabbit did was rubbing her chin to the new rabbit and she was fine with it. 🥰

Getting my new bunny today. I got my first one in 2021 and was totally unprepared. Had him in a tiny cage with a hanging waterer, no veggies, feeding all pellets.... No free roam time...... Omg it was like bunny prison. I feel so guilty. I finally got him neutered last year. Litter box trained him. I moved to a new house so he could have bigger space. Now he has an 8 by 8 cvc cage instead of a 2 by 2 dog cage. I am getting him a buddy today to start the bonding process and then I'll introduce them to the living room, which I just bunny proofed. Hoping by this time next month they'll be bonded and I'll be free roaming them in the day in the living room. We'll see how they do. I feel like pet stores are proponents of inadequate bunny care because they make a profit from it. Most people aren't ready to rabbit proof their baseboards and their cables so it's easier to push the narrative that rabbits can thrive in teeny little cages. I definitely didn't understand how what I was doing was harmful. Now I'm doing so much better for my bun and he has come alive with so much personality. I'm going to continue with the knowledge you've given me to do better for my bun. Wish me luck! This is the first time I've ever done the bonding process, so I'm nervous. Thanks for your content. Keep spreading the truth about rabbits!

I have recently gotten a new bunny thats 5 weeks old to be a little buddy for my 2yr old bunny I already had. Will the bonding process work out between them even though they have a age difference? (Background info: they are both females, the new bunny has a more relaxed/playful personality and could care less about surroundings while the older bunny has a more "moody" personality.) I ask this because I'm getting mixed signals during their bonding sessions...pls help meh🥺🥺

I had two bonded pairs. Timtim and Roxy Morris and Willow. All about 9 years old. Roxy died last year of natural causes Sadly yesterday Morris was killed by a fox. Devastating for Willow as she is blind and deaf. So I made the decision to try and bond Willow and Timtim. This video is great, so far they have completed the car trip, small box. They have now been in next size up box for an hour and will try hay in a moment. Timtim was a very difficult bunny to bond when the rescue centre did it. So I am cautiously happy there has been a little self grooming and of each other. I am taking it so slowly as Willow can not really live alone 😔 so this has to work!

Hey Hailey! So glad I found this video. I have one 10months old Dutch free-roam in my entire house and I am considering to adopt another bunny from the animal shelter to give him a friend but the bonding process stresses me out so much. There should be people who did this for a living lol. So is it cases where they will never become friends? That’s my only concern I can’t risk it to adopt another bunny and then not being able to have them together at home:/

Very helpful video my rabbit just turned 4months old can’t wait to get him neutered and search rescues for a female sadly none are open due to covid

Luv ur vids🤩🥰

Ahhh earlyyy

Hi Hailey, I got a female bunny Oct 1 then went back and got the baby sister female. So the bonding process was very easy. The baby was doing the humping at first then stop 🛑 now the older bunny is starting to the baby sister and it’s been lasting all morning today so far.

how soon can u start the bonding process after getting a new bunny? i don’t want to lose trust with the new one

I'm actually in the process of rebonding my buns. I used to have a trio (didn't last long, so I felt like they only tolerated each other for a month) and since the fighting got so bad, neither of them would eat so I made the decision to rehome 1 of them. Anyways, I'm now back to rebonding the 2 I had, since they were my original 2 and was once previously bonded for a long time, I just can't seem to get them to stop fighting. Like they get along 90 percent of the time with 10 percent of the time they fight, usually if I leave them unsupervised. Neither had any injuries, just fur pulling, but its like they'll do good for hours and when I leave or do something else I hear a fight break loose and its like "I trusted youu". Thats just my thing, this last bonding session went well, and maybe I'll try giving them a smaller space, try the kennel thing, and also be more disconnected, because I always sit a their level during bonding sessions and I stop fights with my hands (with gloves on).

My bunny is free roamed, that bonding process seems complicated and time consuming which is what I don’t have as I work ( from home ) and am a single mother of two young kids ( 7 & 9 ). I’ma find her a cat friend I think.

I just got 2 bunnies yesterday. Although I only wanted 1 rabbit, I ended up with 2 because they had been together for over a month in the original families home. One is an EA (3 months) the other is a Fuzzy Lop (4 months). I plan to get them neutered very soon. No fighting at all… but lots of circling and humping. Very minimal chasing. However the Fuzzy Lop does not like to be held, touched, or picked up which I respect BUT he has bitten me 3 times and bit my assistant once all instances unprovoked. We are sitting minding our business and he comes over and bites. It’s not hard… any advice on the bonding of to stop the biting is greatly appreciated

I heard her shop opened!

Can you do a Q&A for bonding rabbits?

One of my bunnies falls asleep on the other one

I tried bonding once but it was sooo stressful for both me and the bunnies. They hated each other to bits, scratching, peeing, and humping for over a month and I eventually gave up.

We got 2 male rabbits when they were about 2 months old. They both came from the same litter. We have had them for about a year. They have both been neutered and have been very well bonded since we got them. They will groom each other, cuddle next to each other and play well together. 2 nights ago all of the sudden our bunnies started to fight. We woke up the next morning to hair everywhere, spilled water and food dishes and scratches and scabs on one of our rabbits. We have separated them. How long would you recommend keeping them separated before trying to re-bond.

Hi Hailey! I got a super cute bun in January. She free-roams in our living room. I get so much info from you! Just wondering...whose bunnies are those?

Second!

Just saying I’m thinking about fostering a rabbit and I’m wondering how if you could do a video about that then that would be appreciated, thank you

Hey Hailey how do I bond a third bun to a pair already bonded? One at a time or all three at once, or do I just bond the third to the dominant one of the already bonded pair? Please help!

One of my rabbits is a lot smaller and one is a lot bigger and when it grooms the smaller one or tries to hump the smaller one it really hurts her what should I do

Hey I'm watching your show I have 3 bunnies 2 new ones and I'm trying to get them to like each other but I yeah but I do work quite a bit what can I do to make the bonding better or there is no way for the bonding to get any better just I do everything in a tub where it's close by where no bunnies get hurt

I don't think my bonding journey will be that easy, but, I'm going to keep trying at it. The older male is neutered, but, he's very territorial and keeps grunting. The younger female has been in her own space but they can see each other but our first attempt (after three weeks of observing each other) to let them actually meet did not go well. They got a little aggressive but I was able to separate them before either was hurt and we can't figure out which one was the aggressor. I've got a long road ahead of me...

I've heard bunnies live a longer life if they have a buddy to live and play with. Is this true?

Hi Haley My two bunnies have been recently bonded however one is greedier than the other and doesn't let him have much of the herbs and treat hay. Sometimes he even snatches food from his mouth! Do you have any advice? Love your bunnies and bunny room it's gorgeous. And all your products look amazing I wish I lived in America I would be there every other day 😂😂😂😂

I have 2 females the 1st one I got is loving but skidish the 2nd one let's me hold her and very calm and the 1st always attacks the newest one iv watched alot of bonding videos I can't wait til there loving one another just hope it don't take months

@101rabbits we have a female holland lop bunny and she is about one years old and she is spayed. We got a companion for her but it’s a boy and he is a baby. She does not like him. Since he is so young, do you still recommend using this method of bonding them?

Have you bonded baby/teenage rabbits? My bunnies (both female) are both babies and so can’t be neutered yet and I’m unsure whether to start bonding from babies or wait until they’re neutered?

I don't think only using a dust pan works for anyone who has a slightly aggressive rabbit. Mine were very aggressive at the start of bonding & I needed to use my hands to separate them because a dust pan simply wasn't enough to stop a fight.

one of my two bunnies died on march 10th and she was only 2 years old😔me and the vet tried hard to save her but she didnt make it and i dont even know what exactly was wrong😢thanks for this video,hopefully I'll be able to get my boy another friend sometime.💔hes alone now...

Hey Haley. I have a 4 year old female mini lop and a 1 year old Holland lop. Both are spayed/ neutered. Their rooms are side by side. My male Bambi had his back to the room divider and the female Thumper pulled Bambi's fur out of his back. I freaked out. Not used to seeing this aggression. Thumper, female is the aggressive one. They are not bonded. They are never face to face. I put up a better barrier between their rooms. Should I not have done that? What do you recommend? Will these 2 ever be bonded ?

My bunnies are bonded, but recently one of them started chasing the other one and I don't understand what it could be?

Is it normal if not rabbits don’t hump? Like my bunnies (male & female) were bonded then their bond broke after a few months, and now I’m re-bonding them, both times when I bonded neither rabbit humped each other. Will they still be able to figure out who’s dominant?

I've been trying to bond a larger bunny with a middle sized bunny. Now whenever I try to stop then with a dust pan, then larger bunny has started to learn the dust pan is too small and weak to stop him, and the other bunny has learned she can quickly run around the dust pan. Any advice for something to perhaps replace the dustpan with something that's also light weight, but maybe bigger yet still easy to use.

You souls do a video abort bonding traumatized/abused Rabbits. ‘cause thats a looooooong process.

What if the bunny is being chased, but it seems playful and no aggressive behavior has occurred in days? Would it then be okay if I let them sort things out because I heard that chasing is sometimes part of the courting process?