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I have Gracie on the couch with me and a blanket on top of me because she was digging and biting at my clothes. Now she is doing the digging and biting to the blanket. She does that quite often when I let her out. But she is sliding her front legs all the way out until the top half of her body is flat. Then she wil take a few steps and slide again. It's funny to watch but I don't understand what this is about.
 
It's hilarious. Olivia did alot of digging and biting and pulling, but she never did this sliding thing. So entertaining. I had to put her in her place though bc she bit my leg. I let out a little "eeeppppp" and she got really flat and put her head down. I felt a little bad though. But now she's back to digging and sliding haha
 
All three of my bunnies have done that. I have a "bunny room" with the floor covered in layers of flannel sheets. They dig and chew and push the blankets just as you're describing. They push the sheets into huge mounds and tunnels by sliding their bodies back, flattening, moving back and pushing forward. I straighten them out and they start again:)

I think it's bunnies being bunnies. They're using muscles and movements they would use to build their underground warrens, to make nests and hiding places and unearth delicious roots and shoots:) It's great exercise and they're practicing their bunny skills. In my experience, they do it more in the spring and fall--as if they're preparing for the new season.

I've read some excellent posts here on "false pregnancy" a behavioral and hormonal condition that may cause frantic nest building. But I think some digging and "engineering" is normal.

If you're up for it, you might try giving Gracie some sheets or paper towels on the floor to play in. It's great fun to watch. Scout used to love to get into a huge pile of sheets just out of the drier. She would dig and slide and push and binkie. I would shake one out for her and she loved to run under the sheet and feel the warm air blowing. Flannel sheets are best because they don't seem to chew them as much and they're safer if they do. But all cotton sheets worked for supervised play time.

It may not be too much fun for you, but I think the fact that Gracie's doing it with a blanket that's over you shows how comfortable she's become with you;)
 
Thanks for the great info katherine. I'm definitely going to try the sheets and towels on the floor. I would love to see her even more in action

I think she has definitely gotten very comfortable with me because she actually comes up to me and begs for nose rubs and will jump on my shoulder and hang out. I love her
 
Scone used to help me sort laundry by picking out the top t-shirt from a pile, unfolding it and carefully smoothing it flat with his paws.
 
I will put a pile of paper towels on the floor for Foo, she will burrow under them and flatten them out. Then scrunch them up again. Its so funny to watch. She has also started burrowing under her blanket in her cage and she drags her blanket around.
I pile her dirty blankets up in the floor in front of the washing machine and she will drag them all over. Its really funny to see! You should let her have an old sheet or something to play in. You'll laugh and she'll have fun!
 
Im definitely going to put a sheet down at some point today and see what she does with it. For some reason, the cooler weather has made her more spunky than usual. I love her personality, and now she is really showing it. She is so cute. I should've video taped her ripping her treat bag out of my hand last night when I was trying to get one out. I guess I was moving too slow haha
 

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