Bunny Games! How To Have Fun With Your Rabbit
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Part of the challenge of rabbit ownership is learning to interact in fun ways with your bunny. Many complain that their rabbits do little but sit around and chew hay, or perhaps run away when they are approached. Both these activities can quickly become tiresome after a few minutes of observation, and once owners realize that their bunny isn't going to do much more than eat and look at them, many rabbits are left to sit in their hutches or cages until they eventually die years later. This tragic problem is compounded by the fact that many rabbits are not huge fans of being handled, and may nip when irritated or frightened
Playing with your bunny is an essential part of ownership. Through play you can bond with your rabbit, make it become accustomed to being handled, and you will both enjoy your relationship much more. Here are a few games you can try out with your rabbit.
Find the food game. Hide some of your rabbits favorite treats about your person. Let the bunny have some idea that there is food to be had, and let bunny find it. This can be a good way to build trust between you and your rabbit, and is a great way to start with timid or handling shy rabbits.
Obstacle/Jump Game. Make up some rabbit sized obstacles, and use the rabbits favorite treat to lure it over jumps, through tunnels, and around objects.
Hide and Seek. This old children's game can be easily tailored to playing with rabbits, but will require you to get down to their level. Once on the floor, hide behind something, whether it be a couch or a bed, or chair. Peek out a little and let your bunny see you doing it, then hide again. Chances are that the bunny will hop over to investigate what strange thing you are doing. You can run away, or jump out a little at the bunny (not in a loud, threatening, screaming fashion, more like a playful hop), depending on what the bunny does, it might be your turn to run away and hide again or maybe you can seek your bunny.
Teaching tricks. Though this isn't technically a game, you can spend some time teaching your rabbit tricks. Most rabbits learn to recognize their name, and to come to it if they associate it with positive things. You can also try teaching your rabbit to beg by holding the food above its head and making it stand for it. Variations such as getting the rabbit to spin to get the food are also possible.
Work with your bunny's own temperament and natural inclinations. Some rabbits are naturally more sociable, others are more retiring. Some rabbits will take to the games listed above like the proverbial duck to water, and others may just look at you as if you're insane. Spending time with your bunny is the important thing however, you will probably find that the more time you spend with them, the more games naturally evolve.
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yall rock i love your intertaining info. and my bunny loved it to.i think yall should ansewr questions about bunnies.keep up the good work.
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My bunny loves this old comforter I have, he loves to slide around on it and smooth our the wrinkles It's so funny and cute every time I let him out he goes and looks for his blanket.
This is an important topic dear to my heart, so many rabbits and other less domsticated animals live such sad short lives thanks for making this page!
You can run away, or jump out a little at the bunny (not in a loud, threatening, screaming fashion, more like a playful hop), lol i can just imagine some one doing that
Acting mental is a large part of playing in general I think. :)
thanks for the help that stuff is very interesting i hope you keep writing about it because i might forget the infomation and might need to hope back on the website and you might have more infomation for me so thanks again for the infomation c u
haha lol this doesn't really work with my rabbits, they just sit there. i put food near them and they just hide from it. haha. its okay tho i jus put them in the kitchen and when i leave they start playing :) x
lol, that's the fun thing about bunnies, no two are the same. You also have two rabbits which makes for quite a different dynamic I think, they have each other to play with, so the clumsy human is uneccesary ;)
do they really stand up and beg for food? because i tried it with my rabbit and he just sat there. i know he wasn't full because he hadn't eaten anything huge and was nibbling on grass a few moments prior.
didnt work for me but what i do is i kind of chase the bunny then stop then let it chase after me then give her a carrot or somthing after..do you know any good treats for a rabbit ?
My bunny does almost everything for food. I sometimes buy him little bunny treats (but only the healthy ones, the bunny treats that have yogurth or even sugar in them are so bad for the little guys) and he just goes crazy as soon as he hears me shaking the little box I keep them in. He stands up when I hold them high and sometimes he overestimates his capability of standing up and falls sideways (it doesn't hurt him though). He even hops on my lap in order to get some treats.
im getting a lionhead rabbit from my best friend in 4 weeks yay!
what should i feed it when i get it?
are woodshavings okay to use?
My bunny, Felix, likes to dance around my feet (especially in the morning). When he's done his "lap", he'll ask me to walk around him in small steps by waiting my movement. if I dont move, he'll bite my toes! So i just play the "bunny dance" with him...after a few 'lap", he'll do binky and run around my feet again...what a pity I'm too heavy to do that awesome binky.. ;P
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I have a rabbit named Midori and idk if shes and albino or wat
she has red eyes but shes black and white? idk wat she is lol
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When she was a baby she was ALL white but know that shes almost a year old she has black ears a black nose a black tail O.O and she has red eyes
can any one tell me what type of bunny she is?
I thought albinos were ALL white?
my rabbit cadbury is so cute she loves kissing me on the cheeks and pancakes is a little cutie he is like the cutest rabbit on earth!everyone will love my rabbits lol they lost their mum so i looked after them.
i had a rabbit called chocolate he dies a few months ago and he used to roll round in the grass he also turned round everytime he wanted to smell,chase after her throgh the wire or play hide and seek with my other rabbit lizzy.Lizzy licks my hand and pushes me of the sofa cause i sit in her fav spot. i love my rabbit and i will always love chocolate.
Yo these pages are da best! I'm gettin a Rabbit soon. A Holland Lop Probabaly. But I wanted 2 Ask you if there would be any Problems with me going to school Five days a week, Leaving my bunny in the Cage, alone:(. I would get a really big cage, and my dad would be in the attic, (his office), but I'm still not so sure if it would be okay to leave my cute lil' pet "Home Alone":). Post me Bac! Thanks, Frum,
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Wow what a great site we just adopedt 2 from a shelter lizzie and lucas, they bring so much joy een in just a day they are black and white and I hope giving them lots of attention will help them live a long life. thanks
iv got a realy good pearson to look after me BOYKO RABBIT SAYS .can u play hide & seek ?
I have 2 rabbits when u turn them upside down they fall asleep cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gotta dwarf rabbit lol and she is sooo cute!!!! I adore her! i aslo might be gettin a pupy beagle for my bday!!!
can u buy a bunny for me please
hey i have a bunny his name is bambi and i think he hates me ever time i try to pick him up he runs away
I'd love to hear more bunny games. The hide and seek works a little...I had no idea bunny's were so playful! I just got Bhopal my bunny four days ago - he is adorable. I want to cuddle with him, but he's not so hot on that - he's getting more and more touchable with each day of playing the food game and being very, very patient and letting him be.
MY RABBIT IS SO CUTE IT ALWAYS LIKES TO PLAT IT EVEN EATS CHERIOS AND WHEN YOU REACH IN HIS CAGE HE WILL JUMP AT YOU SO FAST HE WILL JUMP ON YOUR HAND AND I HAVE ANOTHER RABIT HER NAME IS NAUGHTY AND SHE IS SO COM YOU CAN REACH IN HER CAGE AND SHE WONT DO ANYTHING. WELL BEUTIFUL IS NAUGHTY SON HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT LIVED WHEN SHE HAD THE BABEYS THEY ALL LIVED FOR ABOUT 3 WEEKS AND THEN NAUGHTY KILLED TWO AND LEFT ONE TO DIE AND MY MOM TOOK OUT BEUTIFUL SO HE WOULD LIVE
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Im getting a bunny in 7 weeks (it is 5 days). I love this pge!!!
i think this is amazing my bunny loves likes to play that game know she loves me more than my sister angelica ha ha ha in muy sis face i love my bunny prinses ginger z barnikle nava
ano says:
2 years ago
I think ya'll should put how to train your bunny. It is kind of weird to put that you can train your bunny but not say how. Other wise i'ts an ok website.