Possibility of getting injured and all for a carrot!

[Tweetiepy]

Hubby tolerates the bunnies, he didn't love our first bunny Peaches but was okay with us having him, Peaches seems to have grown on him to where now he'll pet him for a little bit.

When hubby gets home from work, he'll go downstairs to grab something to eat and he'll bring a mini carrot for Peaches. Peaches just goes nuts and runs all over his cage to get that carrot - sticking his nose through each of those holes to get it. To the point of slipping on his feet or a toy that's in the way or not jumping high enough to make the leap to the shelf above (which is 6"high - he can jump at least 18" no prob). He'll fall on his back, side or rear and get up and gonutsall for a carrot!

Peaches recognizes each of our steps: if I go down the stairs, they'll go to the door and peer out thecage asking to be let out, if it's my daughter, no change. If it's hubby, Peaches will go nuts - but only if it's a week day - he seems to know that the weekends work differently and Popcorn will just look out. And if it,s my son coming down the stairs, they both run& hide.

Hubby thinks Peaches is crazy and I'm scared he'll get badly injured, but there's really nothing to do is there? I asked him to talk to him softly when he comes down so Peaches can be prepared...

Earlier I was taking the dried mangos out of the Kaytee hay and Peaches tried to jump his 14" fence but got caught at the top and ended up jumping down cuz I guess he could smell the mangos - I had to lock him back in his cage while I got the fruit out. He's such a crazy bunny - a real character! He's a real goof!

 

[MiniLopHop]

Goodness, Peaches really likes food! At least you don't need to worry about weight gain with all that jumping!

 

[Flash Gordon]

Flashie is just like that...so hes trained me to feed him before the other buns....this way once i get the treat to him first hes somewhat safe ..if i take too much time getting it to him he will fall off his shelf trying to reach for it and yep he jams his nose really fast into every NIC cube hole on one side of the cage...its really crazy!!!..its cute till he loses his footing.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

I keep all in their hutches till the treats are doled out.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Another thing you could do is raise the barricade up higher--we use baby gates from Walmart, and you can put one on top of the other--it works well for our little dogs, the smallest being the Great Dane.

 

[Tweetiepy]

Actually he was inside in his hutch when the carrot appeared he's just too excited and tripping throught his levels. As to the 14" NIC "enclosure" it's only there to keep him in, he normally knows better not to cross it and stays inside, but I guess the smell of mango was too tempting. Once I manage to bond both bunnies, I'll be using the grids from the smaller cage to make the run enclosure higher.

I made their run near their cage so it's all NIC grids tied together. I can't put up a baby gate since I'm not trying to keep them inside the door. Like I said, they don't go over them even though I know full well they can jump/climb much higher than that