Just a quick bunny update.

Chip is eating and eating and eating and growing and growing. He's also starting to develop a little personality of his own.

Chip has still not fully "met" Indy, except for that first unfortunate meeting. Their cages are right next to each other and they stick their noses through the cage bars when one of them is out and the other is still confined. They don't seem aggressive and actually look a bit ambivalent toward each other.

Lately, in the late evening when Indy is usually out and Chip is in his cage, I've been feeding them. Indy always comes up to me and desperately tries to get my attention. It's as if she's trying to tell me "Stop that! Stop feeding him! If you stop feeding him, he'll go away!"

Tonight I left Chip's cage door open while Indy was out and I was trying to feed Chip. Again, Indy is trying to get my attention, so keep petting her. Chip was just frantic for food (he's just wants to eat and eat and eat...) so he's focused on that. Eventually, the two kind of see each other and both go nose-to-nose. They aren't licking or biting, or even smelling (their noses really don't twitch while this happens). They just touch noses and that's it. There's no sense of that aggression or attack posturing. I'm trying to be careful since Chip still hasn't been fixed yet - his little hard-wired brain may explode if things aren't exactly right.

Anyway, they've been separate this whole time and will be for a while, but at least they realize each other is here, vying for my attention, and learning to live with each other.