Will the rebond take as long as the initial bond??

Earlier in the year I had a tricky old bond which took months but ended in a pairing (though she clearly loved him more than he did her). During the process she bit him right on the willy and we had to separate them while he healed. At the time the vet spotted a large lump on his inner thigh and concluded it was a skin growth and of no concern. We had decided we would have it removed once the winter had passed. And they have spent a happy (ish) 3 months together.

However, the other week I noticed it's shape and texture had changed and back we went, they then decided it was probably an abscess that had walled itself off, reinfected and burst and so on Wednesday we had it removed.

His wifebun is not the most friendly of buns and we have been trying to catch her and bring her in each night since so they don't forget one another but she was very lungey, bitey and grunty. Tonight is the first night we have managed to get her in the house with him (he is still convalescing in the indoor cage) and it has all kicked off. Looks like we are going to have to re-bond - can't believe it after just 4 days.

Anyone had experience of this before? And does anyone have any thoughts on whether it might take as long as the first time around? We obviously have to be particularly careful as he still has the wound from his surgery.

Give her chance. If in the room with him for a while they might just resettle. Flo sometimes tells Bruce off if he has been to the vets without her because he comes back smelling odd and she gets quite stressed without him. Although this situation is not reciprocated if Flo goes to the vets on her own.

I would strongly advise that in future they always go in to the vets together even if one is going for an op. It just minimises these problems.

It sounds like she is getting very stressed by being brought into the house, which will not help her to settle back with him easily.

What are your plans for him? Is he going to be indoors much longer? If so I would be very cautious about putting him back out at this time of year. Could you have them both indoors until spring, starting off in side-by-side pens? If she is not friendly towards humans, that would be your chance to turn that around too...

Thanks both. I think we will take them together in future for sure.
He is the problem rather than her. He started off last night chasing her like he did when we first bonded them. We have had some supervised time together again today which was less frantic but once she went to sniff his leg that he had the lump removed from he grunted and hopped off.
He is now outside and she is in. The nurse at the vets said we only really needed to keep him in one night but the wound looked so angry I didn't really think he should be on wood shavings and so kept him in on safe bedding. I don't have the space really to keep them both indoors until spring. I think we will have to swap them back and forth as we did earlier in the year, taking it turns to be inside & outside and then getting them to spend some time together.
We plan to leave him outside tonight, fortunately it is a lot milder than it has been and we will make sure the hutch is as warm as possible with the snugglesafe too.

One in and one out is not good either. You will be exposing them to what is probably a bit too warm for them in the house followed by the changing temperatures of the British winter the next. Their coats won't be appropriate for either as they won't know what they need to develop. Honestly I would be thinking about finding a big enough space to let them get on with it but supervised for a few hours before putting them back in their set up together. Chasing is not necessarily negative behaviour and sometimes you have to let the chasing run it's course. Bruce chases Flo fairly often. And there is a lot of it going on at the moment. It can seem really aggressive for those that are not used to seeing it.