Advice please: adopted a 2 year old un-spayed female bun Roxy. She bonded immediately with my 8 year old desexed boy Ollie (he’s definitely desexed, had him since he was a youngster). So no chance of babies obviously but she’s nesting like crazy in their shared litter/hay tray.. so I’m worried about them ingesting her nest fur amongst the hay.
What can/should I do? (I’ve only ever had spayed buns so im clueless with this). Should I let her finish the nest / not interfere then clear it out? Or remove the nest as she’s building it? If I add another litter tray, is she likely to nest in that as well or would she just stick to the current one and (hopefully) leave the 2nd one fur-free for safe hay consumption?
She’s booked in for her spay in 11 days and will separate her and Ollie as she recovers. Should I separate them now or would it not stop her nesting and/or stress her out?
by iheartkriek
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I would leave it, although maybe give her somewhere else that she can build the nest (cardboard box with a roof) and move the current nesting materials to it?
It nothing else if gives them something to do.
Even after they are fixed, they can still make nests. Some of ours do. They only seem to make one nest at a time (unless you remove it).
Not sure that helps much I’m afraid!
Let her do her thing. Messing with it will just upset her