• Question: i have just got my 2 male rabbits castrated/spayed. Why are they still mating eachother

    Asked by Robbo+Homingpigeon :) to Carrie, Ellen, Rupert on 16 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 16 Mar 2017:

      It can take a bit of time for all the sexual hormones to leave the body after castration. Also, sometimes sexual behaviour is due to another source of frustration and isn’t purely to do with sex. For example, sometime one dog will hump another dog because it wants the toy it has and that is frustrating it.

      They might stop once all the hormones are out of their system

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 16 Mar 2017:

      As Carrie says it can take a while for the hormones to leave the body completely. But humping can also be a dominance thing (the humper is trying to show dominance over the humpee – sorry couldn’t think of a better way to phrase) or a play thing!

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