May I ask why people get their rabbits fixed?

Vets using the most modern anesthesia protocols for rabbits rarely have complications. The rate is less then 0.5% (which is quite tiny). While 10 or 20 years ago, anesthesia in rabbits WAS risky due to the drugs used and the lack of clear understanding of how their bodies worked, that should no longer be the case. My vet says his rabbit patients usually recover from anesthesia better than cats and dogs do. I have had more than 100 rabbits spayed and castrated (I foster for rescue groups). The largest complication that I have ever encountered is a pulled stitch in a doe that was overly active following surgery.

Castrating is done for primarily behavioral reasons. Not only the spraying, but also they can be extremely territorially aggressive, they often will hump just about anything, etc. They also often will spray urine on their owners to mark them as "theirs", even if you keep them outside. And if you aren't interacting with the animal enough to be concerned about behavior or being peed on, why would you want to keep one as a pet?

Spaying is done for both behavioral and health reasons. Does often become just as (if not more) territorially aggressive than males. And does that are not used regularly for breeding have nearly an 85% rate of reproductive cancers before the age of 5. My vet says that's due to the constant hormone levels in their bodies. So spaying a female pet rabbit approximately doubles their average potential lifespan (from around 4-5 years for an intact doe that is not used for breeding to 8-12 years for a spayed doe).

In both sexes, unaltered rabbits can rarely be housed together in a captive scenario. Intact same sex groupings fight, often quite badly. And intact opposite sex rabbits would reproduce constantly. In fact, figuring an average litter size, a single pair of rabbits can multiply exponentially into nearly 95 BILLION rabbits in a 7 year period. http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/scary.html But an altered pair, particularly opposite-sex, usually get on very well together and really enjoy having a "bunny buddy". Bonded rabbits recover from illness more rapidly, are usually more outgoing towards humans, and are just happier in general. A bonded pair is rarely to be found more than a couple feet away from each other, and will eat, sleep, groom each other, and play. So there's a social benefit for the rabbit as well as the human.

To me, it's totally worth the 0.5% chance of a complication to double the animal's life, and it's also totally worth the 0.5% chance of a complication to hugely reduce territorial aggression and territorial marking.

Add: Rabbits are not "territorial by nature"- at least not in the way you mean. Territoriality in rabbits is a construct of captivity. In the wild, rabbits live in warrens (social groups). While outside "invaders" are attacked, the social group lives together fairly peacefully. Dogs are considered territorial as well- does that mean they are solitary animals that need to be isolated from each other? Why do you think you often find groups of wild rabbits grazing together? The problem in captive situations is that they do not have enough space to spread out in, which leads to fights. Commercial rabbit breeders do what's cheapest to do. They house in cages which are too small for them to tolerate a companion (and really too small for a single rabbit, too). Then they claim that rabbits aren't social and don't enjoy the companionship of their own kind when they put two same-sex hormonally charged unaltered rabbits together in a little tiny cage that can't get away from each other and they try to kill one another. Commercial rabbit breeders are no better than puppy mills. They subject their rabbits to the same life that a puppy mill dog gets. They rarely are provided with affection or attention, are not given toys, are bred almost constantly, rarely taken out of the cage, housed on wire flooring (which is terrible for their feet) just because it's easier for the HUMAN to clean up, and are put into cages they can hardly take one hop across. What part of that allows them to behave naturally?

Why dont you wait till you're able to have sufficient funds to neuter the rabbit and then get it? that is constantly maximum suitable to have the operation achieved as a youthful bunny yet you're able to do it as an person. His behaviour may be aggressive however and he would be demanding to rest room practice. i might basically sustain so which you're able to do the two on a similar time.

If you want multi-gender rabbits to live together then you could have them fixed. Some rabbits are aggressive or territorial and fixing then may help with this.

bcuz male rabbits are calmer and females dont have such smelly pee