As the title suggests I am after some help / advice with my Rabbits. I have a male (who we rescued) and a female. The male has been neutered already and I am having the female done soon hopefully. I have had lots of vets bills recently and have been a bit short on money to have her done at the moment.

Anyway, I have had both for a while but they havent been living together. I am now wanting them to live together. We seem to have introduced them successfully although the male seems to be thumping his feet more than usual for what appears to be nothing.

He has always thumped, so much so that we had to move him inside at night because he was keeping all the neighbours awake!! He has calmed down loads since though but this seems to be happening a lot. He is blind in one eye and we think that this makes him a bit insecure.

Does anyone have any ideas if there is anything we can do to help him calm down a bit and reduce the thumping!!

I'm sorry i'm not great with Bunnies but PM BobbyBunny she's very good.

or sooz she is fab with bunnies

You need to get your female spayed. Even though your male is spayed he can still get 'randy' and will be constantly disturbed by the influx of hormones coming from your female.

Also, it's unwise to keep an intact female with a snipped male because the female will indeed bug the male. She'll wonder why she hasn't had babies yet and she'll have phantom pregnancy after phantom pregnancy.

Best advice - get your female neutered. And if your rabbits are outside, are you sure there aren't foxes etc in the area that could be spooking them? Some rabbits are just naturally loud.

If you've just introduced them I'd be very watchful over them at the minute. Did you introduce them on neutral territory? Please don't tell me you introduced them in the females hutch, as all females are extremely territorial and even if she hasn't reacted yet there might be something waiting in the wings.

Thanks for the advice,

I introduced them on neutral ground, The female is going to the vet as soon as I can get her boked in. They seem very content with each other at the moment and everything seems to be going fine. I think that he may just naturally be noisey!

How long did you leave the male after neutering before introducing the female.....they can still impregnate for 6 weeks after surgery.

Try putting towels or vet bed in the hutch, it will absorb the noise and a cover may be useful as 1. It will prevent sound escaping and 2. If it is an outside animal scaring them they will feel safer and wont be able to see it (and vice versa).

Have you seen them grrom each other? I bonded a REW boy with a female recently and it took a while for them to bond because REWs tend to have poor eyesight and he was scared by her movement....mistaking it for an attack. He showed this by running and thumping.