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cady does the same thing with one back leg out, but sometimes in the middle he’ll fall asleep and it looks like he has front paws, he also has a super loud flop, out of nowhere you’ll just hear a thud. lol its amazing how loud such a little bunny can be! Sophie hasnt shown anything too unusual other than anytime we try to leave her room she attempts to follow like a puppy and she falls asleep with her feet up on her litter box
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She loves to flop and completely roll over. Every time she does it, she has the most ridiculous look of joy on her little face
She has also taken a recent fasincation with nibbling on my finger nails. I just got them done so I’m thinking maybe the polish or something smells different but she keeps trying to chew my nails 
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Posted By Michelle&Lolli on 05/24/2011 08:25 PM
I just got them done so I’m thinking maybe the polish or something smells different
Eddie LOVED the smell of nail polish. He’d coming hopping over, all excited, like he was going to get a treat. Lolli doesn’t act the same, but she definitely doesn’t mind the smell either. Who knew? lol
Too funny! Every time she tries to chew my nails I ask her if she wants me to paint her nails. Kidding of course but how hilarious would that look, a bunny with painted nails
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Posted By LoveChaCha on 05/24/2011 01:54 PM
Chacha will groom her back foot and keep it stuck out.. it is hysterical
Huckles does that too! She like to eat like that as well.
She pushes her food bowl away from her water bowl and sleeps between them as if these two bowls are her dearest friends, the only ones that truly understand her haha.
When she was a baby, she would climb up to the back of the couch and chew on our hair. She stopped doing that several months ago though, probably around the time that we decided to put our shoes up there to keep her from eating our laces.
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Olivia loves to steal stuff and run away. She’s a total klepto bunny! And she doesn’t want to give it back. She’ll stop running and set the object down and then take off again if you get near her. It makes me laugh out loud!
Things she’s stolen:
-Numerous pens and pencils
-My reading glasses
-a chopstick
-a hair clip
-Hello Kitty Watch
-Plastic Easter Eggs
-Pieces of paper
-small plastic toysThis is Olivia stealing a Happy Meal toy. She ran around for about 15 minutes with it.
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Hannah mostly makes me laugh with her crazy facial expressions. Otto’s expression never changes, but Hannah is pretty expressive. Usually she sits up very tall and looks straight at us, a little nervous, like “What is going on over there? Huh? What’s going on guys?”
Eva also has a few facial expressions I noticed. One that I really enjoy is when she sees something in my mouth she wishes (like apple) – it’s almost like she’s grinning.
And, although not weird, I really love to watch her when she cleans her long, floppy ears – like ironing them with her paws
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Posted By Lani on 05/24/2011 06:59 PM
She has also taken a recent fasincation with nibbling on my finger nails. I just got them done so I’m thinking maybe the polish or something smells different but she keeps trying to chew my nails
Hodari bites my nails, too.
I don’t polish them and they aren’t very long; it seems like she just doesn’t think they should be there! Lol. I don’t know if it’s weird or not since Hodari is my first rabbit, but another thing she does is measure and calculate distances.
That’s what it seems like anyway. Before I let her out to play each day I set out some boxes and tunnels for her to investigate and run through. I arrange them differently every time and sometimes put out new ones that she hasn’t seen before. She always does an inspection first. You can just imagine her going around with a pencil, paper, and measuring tape. She hops up to a box or tunnel, taps it in various places with her nose, carefully strolls around it, looks it up and down, and walks on to the next box or tunnel and does the same thing. Occasionally she will move one of the tunnels over just a hair. After she’s satisfied with the inspection she will binky and then dash around the obstacle course. I often have it all set up on my bed because she seems to like playing up there. She never knocks anything off onto the floor depite her speed and fancy stop and go maneuvers. She knows exactly where everything is. -
I just thought of another weird thing Oreo does. She looooves playing with plastic grocery bags. They’re not a part of her usual environment, she only comes in contact with them when I’m scooping out her litter box, so I’m right there to monitor what she’s doing. Mostly she likes to dig and smooth out the bag the same way she does to her towels except that when she “smooths” them, she ends up sliding forward slightly. Apparently this is great fun!
She also loves to dig at the bag once its full of old litter/poos and all tied up. There have been several times where she’s almost ripped open the bag and spilled the dirty litter all over the floor 
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Sungura, That is cool!
Your bunny has a lot of patience to do this over and over. Bunnies like to know where things are, so they ‘map out’ their surroundings and expect things to be there all the time where they found them. My bunnies are very upset whenever I change up their habitats…they have to figure out what I did with everything and if it’s too unfamiliar they are too scared to explore it…after all, something that might eat them may have moved these things! 0_o;
I think rabbits are not the only ones that do something like this…watch any cat when you let it out from being indoors, it is sitting there on the sill or threshold, not just to annoy you -that’s a plus- but, calculating wind direction, what predators are around, if it’s raining or sunny, etc.
Oddly enough though, when my Mimzy lived outdoors for a few months when we first got him, he would bound out of his hutch into his fenced yard without doing much preparation. He met up with our outdoor Kitty one time and literally charged her at the fence to scare her off…I thought that was pretty bold of him.
His shed, though, had to have a place for everything and everything in it’s place. If I changed the position of things, he’d just sulk in a corner till I put it right.Lani; my female bun, Pip, doesn’t like plastic bags at all and when I put one in her hab to take out old, dirty hay and bunny mess, she will attack it repeatedly. I have to be very careful I don’t let her get her teeth into it, she will start eating it.
I’ve been there with the bag ripping and stuff going everywhere…what a nightmare! 0_o
Her weirdest thing has been to crouch at one end of her habitat, then a burst of speed to the bunny mattress and jump on it with enough momentum to make it skid across the floor of the hab. She must’ve been a surfer in a past life. xDFiver is also one of those ‘goes over as if shot’ bunnies when it comes to flops. Being my smallest, he makes this enormous THUD. And his legs go all stiff as he stretches them. Scared me to death when he first did it, I thought he’d had a little bunny stroke or something! 0_o;
And Pip and her hay eating routine. It is not enough for her to have a huge pile of hay…she must first burrow under it before she begins eating it. She literally looks like a walking haystack and carries it around to various parts of her habitat while she munches.
Fiver used to get bowls of canned pumpkin for an evening treat. While he would eat it, his backside would twitch. Apparently this is a sign that bunny is REALLY enjoying his food.
Mimzy used to play hide and seek with me. No joke! It was coupled with a kind of bunny peekaboo. I’d say, “Wheeeeere’s Mimzy?” and he’d peek over a box at me..then shrink back behind it…I’d call him again and he’d peek over, then disappear…suddenly he’d pop out either on top of the box or from the side of it and I’d call, “There he is, peekaboo!” and he’d do a sudden running binky that would take him about 6 feet away, then come running back and binky back to behind the box and the whole thing would start over again. Don’t know if that qualifies as weird, but it sure was hilarious.
I think nail polish has something in it that smells like banana oil…so if your bun likes the smell of nail polish, maybe banana is a favorite treat?
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Posted By MissPinUp on 05/25/2011 11:13 PM
My husband sleeps with a fan pointing directly at his face and chest, and every time he goes to take a nap, by the end of the nap he’s got a rabbit on his chest.
Oh my! lolz…Who was it that posted after MarkBun put up pix of Maryann or Dono snuggling with him, “I love a man with HARE on his chest!”
AND GOD HELP YOU IF YOU DON’T HAVE A BANANA WHEN SHE SINGS.
LMAO…Sings??
Could this bun be the next American Idol?? lol…
What kind of sound is this exactly? Can you get a video of it?
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These stories are so cute. They’re putting me in a good mood this morning.
MimzMum: I was trying a few nights ago to play peek-a-boo with Hodari. She sat up very tall in an alert posture, ears forward, body tense, and watched me out of the corner of her eye, which was open WIDE. All the while she was slowly inching toward me to circle the box I kept ducking behind. When I finally laughed and reached out to pet her, I swear a look of relief, followed by one of amusement, came over her face. It was as if she had been wondering if I was crazy, but when she heard my laughter, she realized I was just being silly.
I’d love it if she’d initiate a game of peek-a-boo like Mimzy did! It would be so adorable. MissPinUp: Lucy is such a character you ought to write a book about her! And I ditto the request for a video of her singing for a banana. But not a bright yellow banana. Being agitated might ruin the song.
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Posted By MimzMum on 05/25/2011 10:35 PM
I think nail polish has something in it that smells like banana oil…so if your bun likes the smell of nail polish, maybe banana is a favorite treat?
Well that would explain it. Banana is Oreo’s crack. Seriously, if she gets a whiff of banana you’ll see her get really still, the nose stops wiggling and her eyes get reeeeeally wide…right before she attacks you in order to get to it.
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