Home Made Bunny Toy

Bunnies love to play, and if you can keep them occupied with some great toys they really love it.  One great idea is to recycle what you already have, and I discovered that my bunnies love to play with a salt box.  Here's what I did.

I took a salt box like this and removed the metal spout carefully.  You don't want to leave this on; bunnies could get hurt.  Then, I made sure that every grain of remaining salt was poured out.  Salt is not good for bunnies.

Then I stuffed a few of myt rabbits' favorite treats inside.  A friend bought me these and they love them.  They only get them once in a while.

I placed the salt box toy inside of the box where the bunnies like to hang out during the day.  Almost immediately my Rosalie pushed it out with her nose and started rolling it around to try to get the treats out.  It was fun watching her!  Humphrey wanted no parts of it yet.

Here is a picture of Rosalie while she's shedding.  She won't let me brush her while she's trying to explore and do bunny things.  She makes me wait until she is tired.  When she looks like this I call her "Rosie Rufflebutt."

Rabbits Can Learn Voice Commands

Humphrey & Rosali in "their spot" under  the end table.

Rabbits are smarter creatures than most people would give them credit for.  Spending time with rabbits gives you a better idea of just how intelligent they are.

I have trained my buns to listen to voice commands.  Rosalie and Humphrey spend most of their time outside of their pen, and they don't like to go back into the cage when it is time for them (and me) to go to bed.  I was having trouble getting two of them into their pen.  It was like playing musical bunnnies--I would put one of them in and the other would jump out.  It wasn't easy, so I thought there must be a better way.  I started thinking about how smart these two are, and I figured I could train them the way you would train a dog:  with voice commands.

I decided on a plan.  I started to walk up to them when it was time for them to go to their pen and I would say repeatedly, "Go to bed" while walking slowly toward them and guiding them into the pen.  Then, I would praise them with "Good bunnies.  You went to bed!'  Then I offer them a favorite vegetable.  Over 2 weeks I did this every night, and now all I have to do is say the command and they automatically go into their pen.  I am so proud of my bunnies:-)