Rabbit antics

So far, bonding at home has been going reasonably well for Bennett and Pearl. They've barely fought since the first two days and have been grooming each other. Pearl is pretty mellow (or just too plain scared of us to be her normal self, which might be happening a little), except when she's in a bad mood. Yesterday, she grumpily went after Bennett for chewing her grass mat. Bennett's been his normal, cheerful, into trouble always self. For instance, he managed to find some left over pellets of Pearl's that I was going to throw away. I put them in this "soup" bowl with some of her fur after I had groomed her a few days back and forgot about them. During their together time today, Bennett found a yummy snack:

Then, when I moved the said pellets and hair ball, he tried his very best to get them within his reach again, and that's one long reach! Sadly, his herculean effort was not rewarded and he missed out on an extra snack.

I've been trying to get a good picture of them grooming each other, and for now this will have to do. They are so cute when they do this, right now, for the most part, Pearl has been grooming Bennett (although after this picture was taken, she reasserted her dominance over him by mounting him, which he was not to fond of, so they had a little spat I had to break up...). He gets total bunny bliss when she grooms him, he stretches out and lays his head on the floor and closes his eyes and just loves it. He always gets this look when she hops away like, oh no, how could you leave me?! She seems to be a little rough on licking his face sometimes, he'll jerk away like she had hurt him, but judging by the way he was grooming me before we got Pearl, I understand there are sometimes little nips involved. About 98% of the time, the female rabbit is the dominant one, and during their initial date, she did assert dominance over him and even mounted him and he was ok with it. He didn't really seem ok with it tonight though, so I'm wondering when he's going to have to accept the face that she's in charge. He hasn't licked her as much as she's licked him and I think that's going to have to change for a peaceful coexistence. I was hoping that we'd only have to do this half and half room for about a week, but I guessing it will be a bit longer. They're both just chilling in their respective corners at the moment, Bennett seems really relaxed right now but Pearl sort of looks on edge, but that could be the dog barking outside, she's still really, really shy and scared, I'm hoping that her bonding with Bennett will facilitate her relaxing a little and gaining some trust with us and her surroundings. OH- he's grooming her right now! Yay, progress, but I better go watch them a little more closely.