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- 02/02/2008 at 8:58 PM
  CowieCow
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  So I’ve looked at a lot of these toys that everyone has come up with and one day I had an idea of my own. I call this The Jellyfish, you’ll know why by the picture. All you have to do is take a flat piece of cardboard, you can cut off one of the sides of an old box if you have one. Using either a pair of scissors, the tip of a knife, or a really sharp pencil depending on the thickness of your cardboard; poke a bunch of holes in the cardboard, just scatter them about. Then take your local newspaper and shred it into inch wide pieces going down, the long way. Take one of the ends of the shredded paper and twist it until it’s thin enough to fit through the holes in the cardboard. Continue until you have enough pieces of paper hanging. Put a hole in the center of 2 of the oppossing ends and tie a string through the holes to hang it. Then hang it in a doorway or somewhere low to the ground where your bunny can chew and run through the "curtain". My rabbit loved this, I made it about a month ago and she’s still playing with it. The best part is, once all the paper is pulled and ripped off you can just rethread it and it’s brand new again. Here are a few pictures.
  
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- 02/02/2008 at 9:05 PM
  Lisa_43
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  What a great idea, you should be BB’s toy specialist.
- 02/04/2008 at 10:31 AM
  Tami
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  Thanks so much for this wonderful idea, CowieCow !
  
  I made two of these last evening whilst hubby was watching the Superbowl (yuck !) and hung them in my baby Isabella & Rambo’s cages. Izzy went running through them immediately and periscoping checking it out & Rambo starting ripping the paper and eating it, LOL ! So they were very well received, hehehe
  
  Thanks again for this great contribution ! I have 3 more to make for my other bunns ;o)
  
  Tami
- 02/04/2008 at 2:14 PM
  Sarita
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  That looks like fun! Really great idea.
- 02/04/2008 at 6:43 PM
  Scarlet_Rose
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  Oh what a great toy idea! I’m going to have to try that! Thanks CowieCow!
- 02/05/2008 at 5:50 PM
  angoralvr
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  I made one of these and put it in the tunnel that I have. . . . So far Henri and Acorn have ignored it but Mercury loves it!
  
  Great idea!
- 02/06/2008 at 8:58 AM
  babybunsmum
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  what an adoreable pic of mercury!
  
  and a fabulous toy idea! i love it! going to make some tonight for sure. i have a mountain of cardboard to cut down & a mountain of newsprint for recycling… might as well use some for cool free toys
- 02/07/2008 at 4:35 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  ok maybe silly Q but… where do u guys get all of the cardboard from? the only cardboard i can get is from toilet rolls.. i wouldnt even know where to go for boxes and stuff :S i wouldnt even know where to go if i was moving.. help?!
- 02/08/2008 at 12:51 AM
  CowieCow
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  Well I get all my cardboard boxes from work, mostly just to make toys for Cowie. The piece of cardboard I used though for this actually came from a package of construction paper, sometimes it will come with a piece of cardboard just for structure support ya know. But ummm…. you could probably go to your local grocery store and ask them for boxes, you know they through out a ton everyday.
- 02/08/2008 at 1:52 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  thanks i will give that a try!
- 02/09/2008 at 11:13 PM
  Floppy
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  hmm that does look really fun, going to have to try that for Mr Floppy.
  Mercury looks very content there with the toy, cute pic!
- 02/13/2008 at 10:53 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Around here, the liquor stores stack their boxes up every week for people to use. Try popping in a liquor store and if they don’t have any out, just ask!
  
  I LOVE the idea of making an ‘octopus’ in the tunnel!!!
- 02/17/2008 at 12:25 PM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  i got a box and cut holes in the top and then put paper through that so its like a jellyfish house! hopscotch loves it!
- 02/18/2008 at 10:35 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  here are some pics from my last post
  
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- 02/21/2008 at 11:20 AM
  babybunsmum
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  oh now that’s a cute idea too! it’s a jellyfish bonanzaaa!!! lol
  
  her’s a pic of my lazy-cage-jellyfish. baby loves it. gotta put one together for the pinkster too.
  
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- 02/24/2008 at 4:38 AM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  hehe your bun is cute!
- 03/10/2008 at 9:38 PM
  BinkyBunny
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  This is a great idea. I would love to put this in the HomeMade ToyTest Section I’ll email you.
- 03/11/2008 at 4:11 AM
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  What a fab idea …. gotta try this one on Luey.
  
  And I will make one each for the piggies and hang in their cages.
- 03/11/2008 at 2:06 PM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  hopscotch loves his little house jellyfish thing lol
- 03/11/2008 at 3:21 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Garsh…I just read my earlier reply to this post; combined with my other suggestion to get paper bags from the liquor store… now don’t I look like the lush LOL …but seriously bunny toys are made at liquor stores!! Brown paper bags and cardboard boxes LOL
- 03/13/2008 at 1:43 PM
  kimberleyanddarren
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  lol… *high pitched voice* alco………. hehe jk
- 05/05/2008 at 10:51 AM
  BookerTRabbit
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  I made a version of the Jellyfish. We call it the Jellyfish Cave. I poked holes in the top of a box and threaded the newspaper through. Booker LOVES it. She like to hid in side and pull in the news paper! Thanks for the great idea !!!
- 05/06/2008 at 1:34 AM
  BinkyBunny
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  Welcome BookerTRabbit!! I’m so glad your bunny loved your version – the Jellyfish Cave! We’d love to see pics! But even if you didn’t get pics, be sure to stop by the lounge and introduce Booker! We want to know what she looks like and what she is like in general.
- 05/07/2008 at 10:32 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Aww That sounds soo cool!! Thanks for the idea and Welcome to Binkybunny!!
- 08/08/2008 at 12:47 PM
  DancingDiva
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  That is such a good idea! I’m going to make one for Stuart today! He is a little nervous since I just got him yesterday so mabye having something to do will calm him down a bit.
- 08/08/2008 at 7:17 PM
  BinkyBunny
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  DancingDiva – let us know how it Stuar likes his Jelly Fish!
- 09/03/2008 at 5:54 PM
  Balefulregards
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  Sadly Coco didn’t go for it. She seemed suspicious of the whole thing…although La Chatte looked hopeful that something tasty might emerge from the newspaper tentacles.
  
  I took it down after four days.
  
  Some day I will find a toy she really likes….
- 09/05/2008 at 6:40 PM
  MooBunnay
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  I’m going to make one this weekend! As for a potential place to get he cardboard for this – the punch outs from the maze haven are very much octopus sized!
- 09/06/2008 at 11:51 AM
  Balefulregards
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  Ohhhh – I have moved it to a new place…and it got a second look. I have not yet given up hope…..
- 11/02/2008 at 7:43 AM
  Grace
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  Do i see a stunt bike in the background? Haha!
- 01/03/2009 at 1:46 PM
  2lops
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  looks great, I’ll try to make one (:
- 01/08/2009 at 11:21 AM
  skibunny8503
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  I made one for Archie….gosh he is so hard to please! He sniffed it and pulled a piece of newspaper down and ate 1/2 of it and that was pretty much it.
  
  I did try something else….I took a few of the pieces of newspapers out and I put parsley in the holes. He ate it but I didn’t get to see him playing with it.
- 01/19/2009 at 8:34 PM
  Lindsey
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  I’ll have to make some for my boys, that looks really neat.
- 06/13/2009 at 4:50 PM
  bunnycutie
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  i just love this toy! and so does my bun! he had a great time helping me build it and chewing it up! haha! i hung it in his hutch and he thought it was super fun!
- 07/03/2009 at 6:11 AM
  MerryGlas
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  Anyone else’s bunny just sit underneath and eat the newspaper? I can’t help thinking all my hard work went to waste there!
- 07/03/2009 at 1:20 PM
  Cake
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  I made one with a pizza box lid.
  
  We call ours the BUNNY WASH. Indy loves darting in and out.
- 07/05/2009 at 11:11 AM
  katie, max & penny
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  my buns love the jellyfish too!! yay!
- 07/15/2009 at 2:13 PM
  XxBunnyxX
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  hey my rabbit loved it i put some hay in the holes as well as news paper with sum carrtos she loved it
- 07/15/2009 at 2:19 PM
  tabalab
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  the bunny car wash! LOVES IT
- 07/18/2009 at 1:01 PM
  tabalab
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  I made a dig box today with the jelly fish idea before they get into it. They are both flop right now so Ill have pictures and an update later.
- 07/19/2009 at 8:21 AM
  bunny
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  Hello Binky bunny user
  
  My bunny Nala 2 loved the jelly fish but she doesn’t like
  
  carrots i think she thinks they stink does anyone esle have this problem
  
  also my rabbit is wild aand like to huimp the hay why do you thinkl this is
  
  please help me fellow bink bunny user
- 07/20/2009 at 8:41 PM
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  I don’t have a place where I can hang it from, but I saw the cute pic of the paper hanging from the inside of a box. I just realized I have a carton that paper towels came in. I can just use that to hang the strips of newspapers from and I can cut out a couple of doorways so Tweakers can come in or out with. Excellent ideas Ladies!!
- 07/20/2009 at 8:45 PM
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  Hi!! Tweakers wouldn’t eat carrots at first either. Try this, get the petite baby carrots in the small bag from the vegie area in the grocery stores. Rinse them with water first and pat them dry. My daughter’s bunny won’t eat it unless we get the “store/bag” smell off of it. Their noses are very sensitive. And you might need to get your bunny fixed. Talk to your vet about the humping.
- 08/03/2009 at 12:55 PM
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  Very cute! I love the idea and will probably try to make one for my Luna this week after she settles down into her new home.
- 08/27/2009 at 11:08 PM
  shlbysmom
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  so it is safe for them to eat news paper i seen a picture of a bunny eatin and shreeding a phone book is that safe to for them to eat?
- 08/27/2009 at 11:10 PM
  shlbysmom
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  im thinking about gettting my rabbit fixed is it a pretty safe thing cause they stress so easily i dont want anything to happen to her have u had yours done ?
- 08/28/2009 at 12:55 AM
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  Posted By shlbysmom on 08/27/2009 11:08 PM
  
  so it is safe for them to eat news paper i seen a picture of a bunny eatin and shreeding a phone book is that safe to for them to eat?
  
  Most newspaper ink is soy based these days and that’s okay. But if you are in doubt, it is always good to double check with the newspaper company you are using the newspaper from
  
  Helloworld!!
- 09/17/2009 at 11:24 AM
  lexyrose
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  I made this for my rabbits last night. I hung it in a doorway, sorta like a beaded curtain. My rabbits seem to be afraid of it! They just stare at it for a VERY long time before attempting to run through it. And when they finally do, I’ve never seen them move so fast.
- 09/19/2009 at 4:12 PM
  SophieBun
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  Success with the jellyfish but on the wall!!!!!!!!!! =)
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