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Topic Other Boards / Foo / Rabbit advice again!
- By susieq [gb] Date 29.11.09 14:42 UTC
Posted on here a while back about getting my little mini-lop buck, Ziggy, a friend.  Took your advice and got him neutered, patiently waited 8 weeks (vet told me they could stay fertile for up to 6 weeks after op), and last week bought home Marley, a very pretty 3mth mini-lop doe.

Gradually introduced them on neutral territory and............great news............they adore each other!!!  However, Ziggy (despite the op) insists on trying to mount her constantly.  Is this going to decrease, or is the poor girl got this to look forward to forever more???
- By Brainless [gb] Date 29.11.09 16:43 UTC
Having kept a pair of Rabbits (entire) familiarity does breed contempt. 

After the first litter (reared) and second litter(found dead in bedding) born while first still being reared) no more babies were produced and all signs of rumpy pumpy subsided.

I was a child at the time and didn't know better.
- By tina s [gb] Date 29.11.09 16:43 UTC
i have never understood why anyone would neuter a rabbit. in my day we showed them and just kept them separately. they are fine on their own.
anyway to answer you i would think yes, he will, he doesnt know they have been removed and whether the hormones will fade i dont know
- By Jeangenie [gb] Date 29.11.09 16:57 UTC

>i have never understood why anyone would neuter a rabbit. in my day we showed them and just kept them separately.


Rabbits kept as pets, however, can become aggressive when left entire, and are more likely to bite, which naturally deters their owners from handling them.

>they are fine on their own.


The AWA says that animals that naturally live in social groups shouldn't be kept singly, unless they have plenty of interaction with humans. If the animal is aggressive then that's not likely to happen - so again they're better off neutered.
- By Honeybee [gb] Date 29.11.09 21:51 UTC

> i have never understood why anyone would neuter a rabbit


Apparently the best social pairing is a male and a female for the least agression and rabbits should not be kept singly, as Jeangenie says, so it is very sensible to neuter if you do not wish to breed. We did this as our boy rabbit was unwanted and free to a good home, we did the same as the OP and got him neutered then paired him up with a female. We did find that over the weeks he stopped mounting (at that stage he was mounting the dog who was smaller than him!!)
Our rabbits are now about 4 years old and had started nipping each other so we had to give them a much bigger house and run, they get on much better when they have a lot of space.  
- By Carolineckc Date 29.11.09 22:53 UTC
Hello
I breed and show mini lops, I have a castrated buck that i put with a retired doe since i could not part with them he was very highly sexed before the snip and it did take a few months to die down but given time it did he was also a really bad spreyer which has now stoped.  The only humping is from the doe! it doesn't bother him and they are a very happy pair i'm glad to say, its lovely watching the groming eachother and cuddling up and when they get the run of the garden they stick close together.
- By MsTemeraire Date 30.11.09 00:49 UTC
I used to breed & show rabbits too, for many years  - and like yourself, at first I did not understand it either. But have now been privileged to see bonding at work and also bonded some of my own. If you are not interested in showing or breeding then this is a very lovely way to keep buns. I also know some people who do breed & show who have taken on some of these new principles and had success too. I feel we are learning a lot more about the social life of rabbits nowadays, and it doesn't necessarily have to interfere with what we want to do with them re breeding and showing. A compromise can change a lot of things.
- By Carolineckc Date 30.11.09 08:32 UTC
at out local rescue centre now the neuter all the rabbits I think its great it means people can pair them up and stops unwanted litters also.  My vet only charges £25 for a buck and £35 for a doe well worth doing.  Alot of people don't relise two does won't always live happly together and a hormonal doe can be worse then a buck!  I do  agree over the past few years people have come along way with rabbits and now you get a lot of house rabbits too unlike when i was a kid they where stuck in a hutch at the bottom of the garden eating house hold veg straps now we have a great range of food too.  Rabbits health husbandry and diseases by Virginia Richardson is a great book to keep to hand also.
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