Boredom at night

[Emmits_mom]

Emmit is a very sweet and socialable bunny, and welove that his (rather large)cage is in our room. Hedoes get at least 2 hours of outside-cage-time to exercise, but atnight when we got to bed (which lately has been around 1am), he startsgetting a little antsy around 5am. I think he gets bored ofhis apple sticks, or simply just misses the attention he gets whenwe're awake.

He has a little hut inside his cage which he will start to scratch veryloudly and quickly...and wakes us up everytime. SometimesI'll get up and calm him down, and he seems to like it, but I am losingsleep, and I don't want him to think it's okay to wake up mommy anddaddy every night.

We usually just end up taking out his little hut, which doesn't seem tobother him because he just ends up giving up and going tobed. We just dont like to take things out of his home, nor dowe like to be waken up everynight. He has plently of toys inhis cage, but he is only really interested in the apple sticks whichcan only last so long.

Does anyone else here have simular problems? If so, what can we do about it?

Thanks for any posts!

 

[bluebird]

The only thing i can think of is move the cage to another room.bluebird

 

[bunty]

He is just being a bunny. There wake up time isabout 5am because they are most active at dawn and dusk. We have onewho will start with her bell between 5-6am. I found that I if they arebad and we want to sleep like on weekends ( during the week I get up at4am to get my husabnd to work) I give them a carrot and that does keepthem quiet for a while

 

[AmberNBuns]

bunty wrote:

Ifound that I if they are bad and we want to sleep like onweekends... I give them a carrot and that does keep themquiet for a while

Only a rabbit person could justify giving a treat to a "bad" bunny. LOL

 

[BunnyMommy]

I feel your "pain", Bunty! lol!

 

[Loz n Ebony]

I sthere any toys you could give him? I seem torecall there being a post caled "toys" and it said lot s of toys youcould give them.

loz

 

[Emmits_mom]

Loz n Ebony wrote:

I sthere any toys you could give him? I seem to recall therebeing a post caled "toys" and it said lot s of toys you could give them.

loz

Yes, Emmit has many toys, but he is only interested in afew. He has a toilet paper roll which he flings around onoccasion, a tossable carrot toy which he hardly touches, apple stickswhich he loves, and a pineapple treat toy which he LOVES when there aretreats in it...but we're looking for refills. he lovesbroccoli, but he's still pretty young (not even 4 months old), so i trynot to give him too much. I'm mostly worried about him notbeing stimulated when we're not able to be around.

 

[Pepper]

Emmits_mom wrote:

Emmit is a very sweet and socialable bunny, and we love thathis (rather large)cage is in our room. He does getat least 2 hours of outside-cage-time to exercise, but at night when wegot to bed (which lately has been around 1am), he starts getting alittle antsy around 5am. I think he gets bored of his applesticks, or simply just misses the attention he gets when we'reawake.

He has a little hut inside his cage which he will start to scratch veryloudly and quickly...and wakes us up everytime. SometimesI'll get up and calm him down, and he seems to like it, but I am losingsleep, and I don't want him to think it's okay to wake up mommy anddaddy every night.

We usually just end up taking out his little hut, which doesn't seem tobother him because he just ends up giving up and going tobed. We just dont like to take things out of his home, nor dowe like to be waken up everynight. He has plently of toys inhis cage, but he is only really interested in the apple sticks whichcan only last so long.

Does anyone else here have simular problems? If so, what can we do about it?

Thanks for any posts!

Hi!

We have ourrabbit in his cage in our bedroom,when we go to bed and early in themorning he chews on his cage and it wakes us up. We could put him inthe other room with his cage,but we like him in the same room withus.Our Pepper is to spoiled.

 

[bunty]

Mine also have lots of toys but also use themagainst us to get their way. They ring their bells drag rattles acrossthe cage bars. Throw all kinds of things including litter boxes. Afterwe are awake they like the more peaceful toys like TP rolls and stuffedtoys. They also like us to sing the songs about rabbits