Socializing rabbits using the cage method. When should rabbits be kept together?
Hello everyone,
I am currently in the process of socializing my 5 year old lionhead (neutered) and my new doe (also a lionhead and 6 years old).
Due to a lack of space, we didn't have a neutral area, so we enlarged the enclosure a bit and put a mesh between them. We change it from time to time.
She was relatively reserved at first. After the first day, the two of them hopped around next to each other (with a cage between them). At times, it even looked as if she was licking him through the cage.
Yesterday, she must have done something that scared him. He flinched and tried to scratch her through the bars. Since then, he's been less interested in her and doesn't really dare to go near the bars anymore. And when he goes over and they touch, he usually flinches a little.
Now I'm wondering when we should leave them together? She's been with us since Tuesday afternoon. Should we have left them together when they were so interested in each other? Will they become less interested the longer we wait?
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Hello 🙋🏽
You made a big mistake. That’s what makes a glimpse builds up a lot of aggressions and rage. You can’t say whether you can still successfully associate them.
Look for a room they don’t know and put it in there. They stay there for one or two weeks after that they can go back to the precinct. They’re hunting, smiling and biting is quite normal.
Dear Greetings I hope I could help you
Hello, thank you for the answer.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a room where we could associate them. That’s why I researched at that time and I bumped into the separation grid method. I read that she’s controversial, but it can work. It naturally depends on the character of the rabbits.
At my first socialization 4 years ago I had both set in a neutral room the new one was completely overwhelmed and exhausted by the new environment. It worked out, but I didn’t want to do that to the new hen…
Is it possible to remove the severing grid now?
Hello
Unfortunately, the Tremngiter method is total bullshit.
I wouldn’t necessarily open the grid. Do not have a shed, rooftop, cellar
Love
Unfortunately we don’t have a shed, on the attic it’s totally sticky and too tight. The only possibility would be the cellar that belongs to my grandma, which was not so enthusiastic about the idea, since he was also only freshly renovated vulture
I’ll try to convince her.
Grid method? You should have left the rabbits together from the beginning.
The grating method only builds up aggressions and stress, which is why the smell of the other rabbit gets a negative connotation. It can be good that they don’t even get involved.
Hello,
If the two are similar to size and weight, or even, then I would make the grid out. A separation grid can also build up aggression because each of the two defends its territory (must not be, but can be). It’s important that you stand next to it and see how it’s going until you feel that it fits both. It can take a few hours. There should be no dead ends so that an animal cannot be driven into the narrow. Of course, it is best to have a neutral terrain or at least one as large as possible so that they can also get away from it.
LG