
Poppy and Apollo have passed their tests to become a bonded pair. One of their tests when they moved back into the shed was to be able to have other bunnies near them without them falling out. Conveniently, I had a couple of holiday bunnies staying so they were able to participate in the test.

I placed the holiday bunnies pen near to Apollo and Poppy’s to see how they reacted to other bunnies. Neither bothered until I let Pixi, one of the holiday bunnies play out. There was the usual running up and down but Poppy and Apollo never fell out. So this was a very good sign.

It wasn’t all plain sailing though when they first returned to the shed. The pen I put them in proved to be too large. They had too much space which meant they were keeping away from each other and I could see their bond was going to break, so I reduced the size of the pen for about a week. Shortly after the pen was reduced I was seeing more scenes like the one above. The best pictures of them were taken via the night cam hence the black /white images.


From the reduced pen they progressed to a full size pen, passing as said before the next door bunny test and then onto their permanent pen. They have both moved into Apollo’s pen but I had Bob and Bungle living it whilst they were bonding. They eradicated all of Apollo’s smell over the weeks. The final result:
