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Forum DIET & CARE Bunnies and dog food?

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    • Rhosgobelrabbit
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        I have a new bunny, a flemish Giant named Rosco. He has taken to pushing my dogs face out of his food bowl and start munching on the dog kibbles. My dog is elderly (14 yr old mini schnauzer and only eats in small quantities at a time frequently throughout the day. I don’t want my dog to eat less because his food isn’t available, but he is too nice to keep the bunny out of his food. For the time being I have been keeping his food on the armchair where he likes to rest. But Rosco has started jumping up and trying to get the food up there. My dog got dive bombed a couple times when the bunny hopped up on top of him before any of us realized, so now he doesn’t like to be on the chair or his dog bed when the bunny is close.

        My primary question is does anyone have any ideas on feeding the dog so the bunny can’t get to it or isn’t interested besides just locking the bunny up?

        Secondary question is there a way to give the bunny and dog time together without the bunny invading his chair space or the dog going in the bunnie’s personal space?


      • Sarita
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          I would put the rabbit in another room all together while you feed your dog – eating dog food is bad for the rabbit.

          I doubt that you will be able to keep a young rabbit and keep him from invading the dogs space – to him it’s all his space. Maybe once he matures quite a bit, but not at 12 weeks – just like babies they have no boundries. The only way is to keep them in separate areas.


        • Rhosgobelrabbit
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            Thank you!

            I reached out to my mother last night as well. She raised rabbits, birds, dogs, skunks, and horses. I would like to share the advice she gave me in case it helps others:

            I started this morning adding a small amount (1TBSP) of wet dog food to his kibble food. For now, it is making him excited about his food again and eating it in one sitting rather than over the course of several hours. Then I put the bowl up before bunny comes out.

            Last night, after I posted my question, I called mother and her advice worked well for my pair. What was recommended to me worked rather well. I invited Reginald (the dog) Over to me and had him stand while I scratched his chin and chest and sides. Rosco hopped over and went between Reginald’s legs, he didn’t seem phased by the rabbit as long as I was petting him. Bunny did lots of sniffing, a little grooming on one of my dogs legs and then hopped away. I also swapped the dog blanket from his chair and the rabbit blanket from the floor of his pen. She said sometimes exchanging the smells of each animal can get them used to each other much quicker (and with less bunny dive bombing).

            This morning, Rosco is still interested in looking for the food bowl, but has ceased to bother Reginald, besides sniffing, while he is on his chair or sleeping. When Reginald is up and walking around Rosco looks like he is trying to instigate some sort of play or chase, but Reginald won’t do much.

            I’ll update if anything else changes.

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