My wife is very religious and thinks this is an offense against god and wants the destroyed, but i love them dearly. What should I do??
2007-03-23 01:46:27 · 14 answers · asked by Birdy is my real name 6 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Listen to your wife. Have them put down. They are *******.
2007-03-23 06:26:33 · answer #1 · answered by The 9000 1 · 2⤊ 15⤋
Are you sure they are both male? We thought we had two female rabbits (that is what the pet store said) I looked myself at their sex and found out that one was a male.
Also if they are both males- male mammals will rape another male to show dominance over the other- you should actually separate them, because pretty soon they will start fighting. Another problem we had was that same pet store said we had another 2 female rabbits. Turned out both were male and they fought at about 1 yr old and one slit open the stomach of the other one. I was 10, so it was pretty horrible.
don't put them down- tell her it is a dominance issue- they aren't homosexual (there is no homo or heterosexuality in most of the animal kingdom anyways- males will try to mate with anything they can get their thing into)
2007-03-23 04:09:00 · answer #2 · answered by D 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If they are nuetered yes. Otherwise no, dont even let them near each other as they will fight like mad. Well untill one of them dies any way. Even breeders cant always tell the sex of the rabbit as when they look when they are young they all look the same if im honest. Also sometimes its hard to look because the rabbit wont keep still so its not the breeders fault. I have a male that was suppose to be a female and now my other rabbit is due to give birth on the 14th of this month.
2016-03-16 09:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by Cynthia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, I don't know if God's law applies to animals or not. I do know that animals have instincts, and in the absence of a doe, two bucks will try to mate one another...sometimes so much that it injures both rabbits. They don't actually sodomize one another, just hump, but this can damage their genitals. You need to put them in two separate cages or find a local rabbit breeder who will trade one of your bucks for a doe. The only sin committed here is these two animals are locked away in a world where they don't even KNOW that there is an opposite sex. Good luck
2007-03-23 02:00:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Bunnies Having Sex
2016-10-03 09:56:32 · answer #5 · answered by lujan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unneutered males (and females too) will do this and it's not essentially sex. It is often a dominance thing.
They are also probably fighting and can kill each other if left alone. Here is info on why spay / neuter your rabbits:
http://homepage.mac.com/mattocks/morfz/rabrefs.html#spay
The first thing to do is separate them and the second thing to do is get them neutered. After about 3-4 weeks, you can slowly start to reintroduce them. Info on bonding:
http://homepage.mac.com/mattocks/morfz/rabcare.html#bond
2007-03-23 04:47:35 · answer #6 · answered by Martha G 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we have had rabbits for over 10 years. It is normal for 2 same sex rabbits to have "sex" with each other, but you do need to ensure they don't hurt each other.
2014-11-10 16:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by Michael 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's perfectly normal... they're not gay, they're just displaying dominance over eachother... I have a pair of male rabbits that are kept together and they did that for a while, but then they quit after they established which one was dominant over the other... if your wife doesn't like that they mount eachother, try seperating them...
2007-03-23 02:46:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your rabbits are displaying this behavior because they are frusterated. Testosterone in any animal greatly increases the tendancy to show dominance, aggression, territoral behaviors, and mating instincts.
you MUST take them to a rabbit-experianced veterinarian and have them nutered in order to stop the mating behaviors. Rabbits are very social, very intelligent animals who need to be challanged, so after you have them nutered, make sure you provide mentally stimulating activities such as cardboard tubes and boxes to run through, rabbit-safe toys to flip and toss (plastic drinking cups and toilet tubes work well), balls to roll, towels to dig (if housed indoors)...
Please help your wife to understand that religous codes of ethics do not apply to animals- they are very simply driven by nature. They do simply what God put them on the earth to do. When we accept creatures into our lives as pets (dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, etc...) we are removing them from their natural habbitat and family groups and confining them in artifical areas, and often in a 'family' consisting of many different species.
This is where the real adventure of pet ownership begins... we love them as our furry children and often times place the powers of human reasoning and thought upon them, but we must remember who they really are and what they need... they are rabbits, they need companionship, mental stimulation, they are driven to eat, to sleep, to mate... There is no right or wrong in the animal kingdom, they just 'do'.
To truly fufill the rabbits you love, help releave the frusteration they are telling you is overpowering their minds... have them nutered. I promise you will see less dominace, marking behaviors, sexual frusteration (from lack of a female), and they will thank you for it many times over.
-Registered Veterinary Technicion
(and rabbit owner)
2007-03-23 02:35:34 · answer #9 · answered by vet tech 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
NO! they aren't gay they just are practicing on each other. It is true! If you get a female rabbit they will stop but if you don't want babies then get a football and seperate them for a while.
2007-03-23 01:56:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
its very common for same sex rabbits to try and mate one another, if your wife feels that strongly about it then try seperating them, but this may cause upset for the rabbits
2007-03-23 01:51:19 · answer #11 · answered by stephdavenport2001 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋