New friend for bunny after loss

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Last night one of our beautiful bunnies passed away, it was very sudden. She was one of a bonded pair (two females) and we got them together. They’re from a rescue centre so no full history but think they’ve been together since babies (both were 3).
It feels far too soon to be thinking about this but I’ve read that our remaining bunny won’t be happy alone and needs a new friend sooner rather than later.
Has anyone had any experience of this - would a female or male be better and how would we introduce them properly?
Thank you

Sorry you lost one of your buns. I would recommend a health check for the remaining bun just in case. Do you know what might have been the cause? Were they vaccinated (assuming you're in the UK?)

Yes rebonding is recommended and the rescue you got them from should be able to offer advice and help with bonding.

When my then-12 year old bun lost her brother she very quickly rebonded with a gentle 2 year old toy-bun. She was devastated to be alone. When I lost her at 13 years old, he has now been rebonded with a wifebun of roughly the same age (she was a stray so we don't know for sure) and they are very happy causing trouble together

Thank you for your reply. We think it was bloat, she was fine in the morning and then it happened so quickly in the evening. I took our other one to the vets the morning after for a check up and she was fine, had antibiotics as a precaution.
I can’t stop worrying about her now though, I’m terrified something will happen to her.
I called the rescue and we’re going to go up and see if they have anyone she might get on with.

Definitely agree to get the rescue on the case. We lost one of our pair last weekend and will hopefully collect the remaining one and his new friend on Monday. The rescue have even managed to bond him with another boy, which is relatively unusual (they didn’t have any suitable girls).
They said it’s ideal to try and re-bond quickly, and since the remaining bunny looked terribly sad we forced ourselves to get over our feelings of disloyalty to the departed bunny. He lost his wife on the Saturday night and was at the rescue meeting a new friend on Tuesday!