Do your buns sleep with their eyes closed...

[hummer]

The only time I have seen Miffy close her eyes iswhen I give her the full body pet, from the nose all the way to hertail. When she is out of her cage and after running aroundthe living room some, she will flop down for a while but her eyes arealways open. Not even when she is lounging in her cage, theyare still open. Unless I sneak into the diningroom/livingroomwith a night vision goggles in the middle of the night, I am not sureif I will be able to confirm or deny this one.



Oh, and tonight after I herded her back in the cage, she was mad andwanted out so she thought that she could eat through thebars! I have a bowl under her water bottle to catch the water(she is a little sloppy) and she was trying to toss that around too!

 

[Pipp]

hummer wrote:

Theonly time I have seen Miffy close her eyes is when I give her the fullbody pet, from the nose all the way to her tail. When she isout of her cage and after running around the living room some, she willflop down for a while but her eyes are always open. Not evenwhen she is lounging in her cage, they are still open. UnlessI sneak into the diningroom/livingroom with a night vision goggles inthe middle of the night, I am not sure if I will be able to confirm ordeny this one.



Oh, and tonight after I herded her back in the cage, she was mad andwanted out so she thought that she could eat through thebars! I have a bowl under her water bottle to catch the water(she is a little sloppy) and she was trying to toss that around too!

LOL! Glad to hear that Pipp isn't the only one. She's like the little girl in The Ring... "She never sleeps!"

 

[erin]

ramona only when I pet her she closes her eyes...even when she is fully laid out sleeping she still has them a bitopen LOL ...I am glad to heat this since I thought she was abnormal LOL

 

[ruka]

I have never seen my rabbits sleep! I have no idea when they have shut eye or if they get any at all.

 

[Spiced77]

most of the time mine sleep with their eyes atleast half open.. sometiems they'll go into deep sleep with their eyesclosed and little twitchy dreaming feet lol nowthat'sa site.. bunny dreams hard not to giggle and wakethem up!

 

[Carolyn]

Hi Hummer,

Two out of three of my rabbits sleep with their eyes open.

This is what Cali looks like. When I had first gotten her, Ihad sworn she was dead. I used to laugh at dajeti2because she'd always be waking up Apollo to check on him. Ididn't laugh anymore after I had gotten Cali. I knew exactlywhere Tina was coming from.

-Carolyn

 

[hummer]

Thank you for the picture and the replies, atleast now I know that she does in fact sleep and that she is notalone! I suppose that they sleep with open eyes to be awareof potential predators? I actually had a friend who wouldalso sleep with her eyes open when I was little and that really freakedme out! :shock:

 

[Stephanie]

I thought I read, or heard somewhere, that theysleep with their eyes open to always be wary of predators. Could bethat's where the saying "sleep with one eye open" comes from.

My rabbits go back and forth between sleeping with their eyes open andclosed, although it's only recently that they've been closing theireyes. I thought I heard somewhere that they close their eyes when theyare feeling completely safe.