Three dwarf hares
sit "between the chairs" due to the separation of the owners
Mometimes everything in people's lives goes a different way, and pets are caught in the middle.
Two dwarf rabbit owners are getting divorced, and a few weeks ago Gut Aiderbichl got the request if we could take Bärli, Matrix and Pandi could be accommodated in our rabbit house in Henndorf.
The animals should be helped out of the awkward situation and so they were taken in at the end of March.
Without the consent of the partner were the 3 dwarf rabbits at some point in the apartment
It soon turned out that the three dwarf rabbits did not get along. The solution should be that each lived individually in a cage. So, in living space that was too cramped anyway, three unneutered rabbits were now living in separate boxes.
The health-impaired woman took care of Bärli, Matrix and Pandi as best she could. The conscience pinched her, because that could not be a species-appropriate attitude of rabbits.
The divorce stood in the house, the rabbits were in emergency accommodations. "It really breaks my heart, the emergency shelters for the rabbits are much too small ...." - now Bärli, Matrix and Pandi are in the rabbit house in Henndorf.
Why did the three male dwarf rabbits not get along?
Keeping rabbits separate is not a purposeful solution. The problem with Bärli, Matrix and Pandi was mainly that they were not neutered. The sexual urges in a constellation of three male, unneutered rabbits, does not turn out well, because they cannot act out their sexual urges at all. Uncastrated males can injure themselves severely during puberty and even later. To keep them species-appropriate in same-sex company, castration is indispensable.
A "healthy" mixture in the rabbit group
Rabbits that grow up in a group, or live with other rabbits for a longer period of time, exhibit the best social behavior. In larger groups, it is best to keep an equal number of males and females. Often a surplus of females is more compatible than a surplus of males.
Every rabbit is different. In any case, keeping rabbits in groups requires good observation skills on the part of the keeper, and also sensitivity when putting the animals together. Not all animals are suitable for groups, some prefer to live in a group of two.
Bärli, Matrix and Pandi love their new living situation among all the rabbits at Gut Aiderbichl in Henndorf, and get along well.
Ethics consists in feeling obliged to show the same reverence to all living things as I do to my own life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
