naughty bun!

[mocha200]

about an hour ago i come home from dance and my cusin was there. she said she saw my cat shadow sleeping on my bed when she came in my room to look at my bunnys. and i asked her ” did you see lulu in her  new cage?” and she said ” idk all i saw was a bunny hopping around on the floor.” and i said ” you mean on her cage floor” and she said ” no just hopping arround the floor.” so i was like “what!” so i ran in my room and i see lulu hopping around the floor like she said! she had jumped over her 2 foot cage! ( 2 nic stacked) i know her jumping skills are cute, but nott when she jumps out of her  cage! arg i am going to have to get a new settup cuz i don’t have enough nic cubes to make it higher.

[Monkeybun]

You could maybe take a sheet and clip it to the top of the cage like a roof so she can’t see the way over. Might do the trick.

[mocha200]

i am thinking i will just go get my x-pen from out side….. but its dark out hmm… i would do the sheet thing but we ran out of clothes pins and i am not sure what else to use. she isn’t trying to get out now but thats cuz she’s slepping.

[Barbie]

Oh naughty bunny!

You don’t have to have clothes pins… what about binder clips (like the black ones from office supply stores)…. paper clips (might have to stretch them out a bit)… string (if you have a big enough sheet to bunch up the corners and wrap the string around the bunched up fabric and the tie that to the nic grids)… or a needle and thread to run the thread through the sheet and then around the top of the nic grids…. twist ties like the ones for garbage bags…. hair clips… safety pins…. or you could get some large pieces of cardboard and lay that over the top of the cage… hope that helps give you some inspiration

[Deleted User]

Yes, 2 grids are too low. Sooner or later most bunnies will clear that. I have to laugh because you want Lulu in agility so she kind of made her point by clearing the grids! She has the powers!
 

[mocha200]

i put a quilt over it last night. i am going to have to put the xpen up for her. the reason i don’t want to is then i only have one left for excersize time. you don’t think she can jump the xpen do you? silly bun. LOL. thats the one thing bad about getting her into agility, she would jump everything. how do you teach a bunny agility?

[Deleted User]

this is weird Mocha, I found this video for you and the rabbits look almost identical to Lulu and Mocha!

check it out

 

[mocha200]

wow petzy! thats so cool. do you know how i could make a rabbit jump? could it just be a smaller version of a dog jump?

[Deleted User]

You need to get your hands on some books about this, maybe your local library can call them in for you. I will see what I can find and let you know.

I have not trained a rabbit for agility but I understand it involves using a harness in the beginning. This has to be done with extreme caution, some rabbits don’t accept the harness well and can iinjure themselves very seriously. Do your rabbits wear harnesses at all?

As far as the agility course is concerned, you can build gates out of NIC grids, I have seen people do that. You already have a tunnel (the one you use in your outdoor run), you can be creative in what you use.

[RabbitPam]

I love that video.
I’m currently reading two books that K&K recommended: “Clicking with your Rabbit” and “Reaching the Animal Mind” by trainer Karen Pryor. I’m not sure it is absolutely necessary to use the harness. Karen Pryor has trained everything from horses to fish with just positive reinforcement techniques, ie. the clicker method. It’s a detailed process, but you can get them trained with it as well as get them to stop doing behaviors you don’t like. So I’m a green novice right now, but I am pretty sure the obstacle course training can be done with just clickers and treats. So cool.

[mocha200]

i put a a harness on lulu for the first time today without the leash on ( in a x-pen) it probably wasn’t a good idea right now cuz i am working on her bonding with me. but after i let her go withh the harness on she gave me a few flicks and then tried to lick it off. after a few minutes she didn’t try to get it off anymore but she came over and gave me a hard bite. i am trying to get her to not bite cuz she bites me every time i sit with her during play time so i try a squeel like you said i should but she just looks at me like ” whats wrong with you?” and bites me again. but it is always on my cloths so she might just be trying to bight my cloths. anyways i only had it on her for about 5 min. then i took her off.

[mocha200]

i found this website: http://www.rabbitagility.com/?id=56

[Deleted User]

That’s a good website you found. There is also a book called “Rabbit Agility! What’s That” by Dell Robbins that my library here has. Maybe you can get it at yours.

I didn’t know Lulu bites you. This is something to work at first before going into any other more involved training with her. (You had been asking about how to bond with your rabbits, I see why.)

Clicker training will be your starting point. you can use it to correct unwanted behaviors and later you can use it for your agility training.

A word of caution about the food rewards used in clicker training: choose low-calory healthy treats.
 

You want to read this article about clicker training from the archives of Journals of the House Rabbit Society.

http://www.rabbit.org/journal/4-12/clicker.html

[mocha200]

 

[mocha200]

yeah i have read that before. its good. how should i cure this biting though? is there some sort of clicker training thing i can do that will cure her of this? i am not sure if some of the times she bites me is because she is mad or she wants to chew on my cloths cuz if i sit there she will come up dig on my clothes then bite them.

[Deleted User]

The thing about clicker training Lulu is that it will build a relationship between her and you. Working with an animal is a form of bonding. Call Lulu’s name, for example, and use the clicker to click, and reward Lulu with a slice of her favorite veggie when she comes up to, you but not when she bites you hard. Lulu will come to really like you for this.
Some biting is a form of commuicatoon, such as ‘move’! or ‘give me atention’! — thise bites are not vey hard though, but they can put holes in clothes.

[Deleted User]

* to add: the clicker basically serves as an audible association with the treat. The rabbit knows a treat follows a click.

[mocha200]

ok i think i will order the book in the BB store ( the clicker training one) and a clicker and maybe a toy or to for mocha and lulu i have never bought any thing from BB before. for some reason it doesn’t let me log in for some reason. it says i don’t have the right email or something.

[Monkeybun]

the BB store requires a different login than the forums does.

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