Bonding/Fur

Question
Hi Lia Harvey.

I didn't know who to ask my question's to. so i hope you can help

I have 2 question to ask one about bounding and one about bad fur

question 1

I adopted a rabbit from a pet shop in my town. The rabbit i had adopted has really bad fur its all hard and in balls in her skin.
shes a lovely rabbit really playful. Is there a way i could fix her fur?

question 2
I have 3 rabbits all are females and 2 are fix the adopted one is not fix yet. I am trying to bound my 2 females that are fix on is a lop ear and one is a dutch now my lop ear is a big girl shes really loving and playful my dutch is more lay backed and lazy XD
and i have been following steps that i found from a site but when i go to put the both rabbits in the room my loped ear jumps at my dutch and both start kicking and biteing really bad no one has been hurt YET! my lop just jumps at her when she see her ad my dutch gets her my whatever and starts kicking thers fur from both rabbits everywhere its not nice to see. My dutch rabbit is older i had a big lop that was bounded to my dutch when my dutch was a baby but my big french lop had to get put down i adopted her to from a new paper to find out that she was ill and dieing not a nice thing to find out. My new lop shes but a full lop a cross lop shes about a 1year of my dutch there around the same age maybe a year of. Do you think both can be bounded or do you think the bound will not work?

Answer
Roxanne,

Answer for question 1:

Do you mean that her fur is matted or dirty?

If she is severely matted then she may have to be shaved. I recommend having a vet do this because it's hard to shave a rabbit and if she isn't properly restrained she can end up hurting herself. If she doesn't have a lot of mats, you could try to cut away at them with scissors. Be extremely careful if you attempt this. Rabbits have very thin skin and you could easily cut your rabbit's skin. I assume that if she is matted, she is a long haired rabbit. Be sure to keep her fur well brushed so that this does not happen again.

If her fur is dirty, try to comb out the dirt with a fine toothed comb. I don't recommend bathing her unless her fur is extremely soiled.

Answer for question 2:

Some rabbits just don't get along and will never get along. Make sure that the area that they are placed in is neutral for both of them. You don't want the area to smell like either of them. If one has already claimed the area, she will start a fight. Be careful not to mistake humping for fighting. Rabbits hump each other to distinguish who the boss is and is important when bonding. Fighting is usually very frantic and can get ugly fast so watch them carefully. Females can be very territorial especially when they have reached sexual maturity.