Honest advice regarding bonding a neutured male and un-neutured female?

[Lessie]

Hi,

I am seeking for your professional advice and honest opinion. I currently own a beautiful and healthy female Old English Rabbit, who is un-neutered, living with a smooth haired guinea-pig. I am aware of the fact that they should not be living together however I bought them almost four years ago at Pets at Home when ‘guinea-pigs’ and ‘rabbit’ were allowed to live together. I am now so grateful that they do get on really well, and not have had any problems, injuries or conflicts.

Nevertheless I am thinking of adopting my Aunt’s male rabbit and male guniea-pig, due to of her lack of knowledge of looking after them. It is a great shame to say that, she does not look after them correctly and I would hate to see him suffer and die at young age. So I am taking a great consideration of adopting him. But unfortunatley they are both not neutered, so if I am planning of adopting them, I was going to get them both neutered, because it is much easier of getting male rabbit and guniea-pig ‘done’, and they are younger than my doe and female guniea-pig.

So will the castrated buck get on well with my uneutured doe?

I am very aware of all the facts and advantages of spaying female rabbits however I am too scared of having her done because she is nearly 4 years old, and I know there is a risk of losing her during the operation due to Anesthesia. Therefore that is why she is not ‘done’.

Lastly, I did mention I have a female guinea-pig, and if I do adopt my Aunt’s male rabbit, it will not be fair for her therefore I may also adopt her male guinea-pig like I have already stated. Again, they are not both neutered so it is possible to put them together if I just get the male guinea-pig neutered?

To do this I shall separate them from the rabbits, so they will have their own hutch, and run included. Also I shall buy a new 6ft rabbit hutch for my rabbit and my aunt’s rabbit.

Do you think I will be doing the right thing, if not please mention to me.

Thank-you for spending a moment or two reading this, I shall look forwards hearing from you.
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Lessie

 

[grommit]

Hi,

I cant help with the buns at all, BUT i do have 2 pairs of unneutered girl piggys and neutered boy piggys.

WE got our girls first, Wendy became ill and they had a fight and Alice became completely intolerant to poor Wendy :0
We had to seperate them before Alice did her some serious damage.

Wendy got very depressed on her own so we then decided to get 2 rescue males, one each for them who had already been neutered.
I seriously thought we would never get Alice to bond with another piggy... She was sooo aggressive towards Wendy, but how wrong was i!!
She now lives with Dermot full time, Dermot loved her the moment he set eyes on her... i wouldnt go as far as to say its mutual but she puts up with him without a hitch! There have been no fights at all!

Anyway my point is that its defibately worth a try, it worked for us and i'm sure your piggy would love to meet another of her kind.
Hope it all works out for you.

 

[Niki]

It depends on the piggies personalities, not all sows will live with a neutered boar. I had a sow who would accept any other sow but not a boar.
The same with your buns, it depends on the individuals.

I have 1 pair of buns whom i adopted already bonded. My other pair are newly bonded, i had my buck & took him all are neutered but one pair is newly bonded.
My buck met a doe but they weren't bonding & she sadly died before they could be left longer, he then met another doe whom he fell for immediately & these 2 are now a pair.
You can have your doe spayd at the age of 4; many rescues have them done at that age & older because it greatly reduces the risk of uterine cancers.

To bond the piggies & buns it needs to be done on neutral ground. With the piggies a large area is best with veggies & hay as distractions.
With the buns the area needs to be small so they can't become territorial of their own zones.
Good Luck with your decision