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Forum BEHAVIOR Bunny Routines?

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    • LoveChaCha
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        Do your bunnies have routines? Do they get mad if you aren’t on time with it? How do they express it?

        My dad has been feeding Chacha bun her breakfast pellets (pellets in a treat ball) for a few months. When I used to keep my door closed, my dad said Chacha would be waiting right outside his bedroom door for him! Now, she has full range of the apartment, and can go into my room when she wants – my dad says that she will be in my room, but when she hears his door open, she zooms out from my room !! Who wouldn’t want to start their day with a begging, hungry bunny? She does get plenty of hay, she is just anxious for her pellets

         

        Chacha bun has her dinner greens at 9:30 pm at night. She gets mad if I work past 9:00 pm and does she show it . A few times, I was on the laptop past 9:30 pm, and she sat underneath the computer chair.. and waited,.. and thumped ! So I moved my butt fast to get her greens


      • bellemarie
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          My bun gets his greens and 1/8 cup of pellet before school at 7 am. I also fill up his hay & water & freshen up his cage. Whenever I get the bag of pellets, he gets so excited! He gets his dinner greens, more pellets, and then something else (like a bit of fruit or carrot or broccoli) at around 10 at night. That’s when I clean up his litterbox & refill his water again. Of course, he also has hay all day. He also knows when he’s getting a treat – he runs around like a bunny fool! haha


        • FrankieFlash
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            I think chacha needs her own tv show. My bun likes his out time in the morning and the evening. He’s rarely locked up at all but if he doesn’t get morning run time or when I have to travel up to my parents he pouts for the majority of that day. Oh and morning lettuce or else he hides and pouts until late night.


          • KytKattin
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              I always feed in the evening. I am too lazy to hardly do anything with myself in the morning, let alone do more than let Nova out. That being said, she doesn’t even beg to be let out in the morning. She spends most of her time sleeping, with some awake time in the evening. She gets fed between 6-10, depending on my dinner schedule, school, etc. So again, she isn’t too picky about it. If I am at my dorm, she gets excited in the evening so I tend to feed her earlier, but I just assume that is her normal awake time. She never seems upset about a late dinner. What she doesn’t like is certain songs that my roommates play. It is hilarious, and they don’t play anything very loudly (I am super sensitive, so I would notice), but certain songs have her thumping around the room in an angry tizzy!


            • kinggoblin
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                Mine gets his pellets in the morning when I wake up, he gets his greens around 5:00-6:00pm and he will refuse to leave his cage until I give them and will sit in his plate and just stare at me like “Uhhh……….dinnner………..NOW!!!!!!!!!!”


              • LittlePuffyTail
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                  My bunnies know their routine very well and get upset when it deviates. I’m very anal with my bunny schedules. They eat breakfast around 7:00/7:30. On Sunday, I try to sleep in but Bindi very rarely lets me sleep past 8:00. He either rattles his condo door or digs in his hay bin until I get up. They are also in the habit of coming out in the morning after breakfast. Olivia comes out first, usually for an hour and then the boys. If I’m a bit late with letting them out, Olivia just sits by her door, looking sad.

                  Bindi gets mad if his evening run-time is late. He usually makes a huge mess in his cage and lots of noise.


                • bellemarie
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                    Peter never gets mad or anything. I let him out in the am when I’m getting ready for school for about an hr. Then he’s out between 2 and when I go to bed, which is like 10 or 11. He only gets my room, though. When he goes in other rooms I have to hold him. He likes it though. He loves family movie night, being snuggled on me, sleeping.


                  • Stickerbunny
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                      Stickers digs at the door if I don’t pay attention to her when I get up in the morning, Powder will jump on the bed and be a brat if I try to sleep in. And if I disturb Powders afternoon nap (he’s decided the bathroom is his napping place….) I have to watch my feet, as he has no problem coming up and giving me a little nip to say I am being bad and disturbing him. lol


                    • Rei
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                        Molly did this just last night actually. I give her a half of her daily amount of pellets in the morning before work, and the other half before she is in her pen for the night. Well I suppose I was taking too long last night, because there she was (like always when she knows when its time) sitting by her pellet bowl, looking at me. Its her form of begging I suppose lol Well I wasn’t moving fast enough and she thumped…then she thumped again…and just to make her point, she thumped once more! Such a little stinker she is at times lol


                      • Elrohwen
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                          Mine have a pretty set routine. DH feeds them around 7:15 – veggies and pellets – and they get to run around for a bit. I lock them up around 8:00 when I leave for work.

                          I get home around 5:00 and let them out. Dinner is about 9:30 when we’re getting ready for bed.

                          They don’t necessarily get angry if we change the routine, but they are always hopeful that dinner will come earlier one night. After 7pm, every time I go to the fridge for something they run back to their cage and sit by the bowls, staring at me. lol


                        • Malp_15
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                            We have a pretty set routine in my house. I get up for work between 630-7am depending which job im working that day and I always get up and go to the bathroom right away and when I come back it’s breakfast time. Tait starts zooming and binkying around when I come back into my room and he gets his pellets and a papaya tablet. Then I get home from work anytime between 4-7pm & Tait gets a homemade biscuit. Then usually right before bed I get his veggies ready and re-fill his hay, 10pm-ish. It’s funny my dogs are so used to the routine that they put themselves to bed, in their kennel, when I go to the mini-fridge downstairs to get the veggies out

                            Tait doesn’t necessarily get angry if I’m late, but he just kind of stares at me until I get the picture and feed him


                          • peppypoo
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                              Tammo was a free-range bunny for most of the time, so whenever my dad would get up in the morning (he woke up the earliest), Tammo would run over to the foot of the bed and wait for my dad to feed him. Afterwards, he would hop over to our back door and sit waiting patiently, since we would usually let him out in the backyard for a couple of hours every morning (this was before we thought things through in regards to bunnies and outdoors, heh).


                            • Huckleberry
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                                Huckleberry has a pretty set routine. When I wake up, I let her out while I take my morning shower and get dressed. She does a few zoomies and then sits in the hall where she can see me getting dressed. When I go to the kitchen to make my breakfast, I get her morning veggies and put her back in her room. She is usually happy until around 9am when, from what I am told, she throws a huge fit until Boyfriend lets her out. He puts a gate up (which is actually one of my drawing boards wedged in the door way) and he works on his computer while she lays in the hall and observes. Around 10-11am, she goes back to sleep. She does not appreciate either of us being home and waking her up. She will honk if she is disturbed. Around 6pm, when we are both home and ready to relax, we let her out. She runs around and plays for several hours. Around 9, she starts following us around, racing to the fridge and staring at us, opening the lower cupboard doors and letting them slam shut… I feed her pellets around 9:45 but there is around 45 min of her “reminding” us that is is almost time. She usually gets her pellets in a treat ball because it will keep her busy long enough for us to get our homework done. Around 11pm, she gets a group cuddle and boyfriend and I will get on the floor and oooh and aaaah over her for about 15 min. Then he gets her a treat and she goes to bed. Around 4am, I usually wake up and let her out for around 30 min while I get a snack, drink, draw and try to get back to sleep.


                              • flopsydobinkies
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                                  Flopsy gets her breakfast pellets at seven-thirty or eight when my husband gets up. It’s the only time she ever seems to like him! Then on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I get home from class around 11:20 and give her a few raisins and pet and play with her until noon. Then I go upstairs and take a nap while she does the same under the dining table. I’ll come back down around two and spend some more time with her until I have to go back to class at three. I usually give her her salad around this time, too. Then I get home again at six or so and spend another hour or two with her while I eat or watch something on Netflix. I clean her condo and give her her suppertime pellets at eleven to eleven thirty, then everybody goes to bed. Tuesdays and Thursdays are essentially the same, except I don’t have morning classes so I spend most of the morning downstairs with The Flops. I give her her salad at 2:45 and head off to my 3:30 class with my neighbor, who’s taking the same class. I get home at eight-thirty or so and have just enough time to do my homework and get through our bedtime cleaning and feeding before I pass out. Weekends are not fun for Flops, because both my husband and I tend to sleep until eleven, so she’s pretty cranky by the time one of us drags our self downstairs to feed her. And sometimes I’ll forget to give her her salad until four and she shows me The Butt until I do. Anytime she’s not eating and we’re not petting her, she’s either destroying one of her cardboard boxes or zonked out under the table. Miss Flopsy is a girl who likes her routine. =/

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