NZminilops
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone 
. This is going to be long!
I have a few questions regarding Sakuras 'bunnitude'. For those who don't know her she's the one in my avatar. She's a spayed adult netherland dwarf.
She's a very smart rabbit and seems to need a lot of mental and physical stimulation to be happy. She can figure out how to escape from almost anything it seems - from chewing hinges out of wood, to climbing NIC grids like they were ladders, and vaulting over the top like it was nothing.
Recently her partner in crime, Sophie, was spayed and now they wont rebond. I'm thinking that Sakura is now bored and lonely, so I have set her up in an NIC pen in the dining room, so she can see us in the living room, and I can give her plenty of one-on-one time and attention.
Her pen is an odd shape as I have lost a few of my grids, but it's two tall, 3 wide along the back, 3 long on each side, and two long and the front, so it's a weird shape. I've set it up so one side opens up long and blocks the dining/kitchen area off from the rest of the house.
So when the cat isn't in there eating, I pick her food up off the floor, open Sakura's pen up and let her have free fun of this area. Often I will sit in there with her and we will give eachother lots of attention.
However - she is acting like I never let her out, and she's being what you could call naughty. She can be out of her cage for hours and hours, and the minute I pen her back up, she is knawing on the grids, tossing her food and water, digging at her fleece flooring, throwing hay everywhere, trying to escape, thumping at me, and begging for food even if she has some already.
I don't want to give her the message that acting naughy equals getting attention and treats, so I try to ignore her, but she gets so bad that she physically picks up her pen and moves it across the ground :shock:. Now she's a teeny little rabbit, and this is 22 grids, and she will pick a side up and dump it down over and over again till she's crept it out onto the carpet.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can keep her occupied? Any toys get ignored after just a minute or so. She likes boxes and things, but always ends up smashing them into her water and food and knocking it everywhere. Not quite sure if she's just being a spoilt princess or she really is bored and lonely :?. Also how can I weigh her pen down so she can't shift it? I tried bricks but it looks messy and scruffy like that.
"Me? Naughty? Never!"
. This is going to be long!I have a few questions regarding Sakuras 'bunnitude'. For those who don't know her she's the one in my avatar. She's a spayed adult netherland dwarf.
She's a very smart rabbit and seems to need a lot of mental and physical stimulation to be happy. She can figure out how to escape from almost anything it seems - from chewing hinges out of wood, to climbing NIC grids like they were ladders, and vaulting over the top like it was nothing.
Recently her partner in crime, Sophie, was spayed and now they wont rebond. I'm thinking that Sakura is now bored and lonely, so I have set her up in an NIC pen in the dining room, so she can see us in the living room, and I can give her plenty of one-on-one time and attention.
Her pen is an odd shape as I have lost a few of my grids, but it's two tall, 3 wide along the back, 3 long on each side, and two long and the front, so it's a weird shape. I've set it up so one side opens up long and blocks the dining/kitchen area off from the rest of the house.
So when the cat isn't in there eating, I pick her food up off the floor, open Sakura's pen up and let her have free fun of this area. Often I will sit in there with her and we will give eachother lots of attention.
However - she is acting like I never let her out, and she's being what you could call naughty. She can be out of her cage for hours and hours, and the minute I pen her back up, she is knawing on the grids, tossing her food and water, digging at her fleece flooring, throwing hay everywhere, trying to escape, thumping at me, and begging for food even if she has some already.
I don't want to give her the message that acting naughy equals getting attention and treats, so I try to ignore her, but she gets so bad that she physically picks up her pen and moves it across the ground :shock:. Now she's a teeny little rabbit, and this is 22 grids, and she will pick a side up and dump it down over and over again till she's crept it out onto the carpet.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can keep her occupied? Any toys get ignored after just a minute or so. She likes boxes and things, but always ends up smashing them into her water and food and knocking it everywhere. Not quite sure if she's just being a spoilt princess or she really is bored and lonely :?. Also how can I weigh her pen down so she can't shift it? I tried bricks but it looks messy and scruffy like that.
"Me? Naughty? Never!"
