my bun doesnt’ have a problem with eating the willow. he started out slow and is doing a little  on it each day.  shouldn’t be a problem on his stomache he just luvs to play and your sad little bunny will be happy to have some new toys I am sure. ohh dont’ they just make your heart melt 

when cotton begs it is so hard to say no but he stops soon after he realizes he isn’t getting bread or cereal . phew. they are just so hard to resist

i don’t think they can overdose on willow. i certainly *hope* not or else we need to take Meadow to the ER… lol.

SInce willow is almost all dry fiber, I don’t think he’d have any trouble with it.  New greens cause troubles because they contain so much water and can lead to loose poops.

Do check out Binky’s shop for the willow items.  I have the tent & tunnel, I’d like the cubby house, but I don’t have any room for it.  Anyway, I was very impressed w/ the quality of these pieces.  So much nicer than anything I could have found at the pet store.  Occassionally the tunnel gets gnawed on, but nothing too significant.  I like to think it’s their way of decorating.  I also have the willow rattle…Leo likes to throw things.  Else they have cat toys (lattice balls & throw toys) and several stuffed animals for Leo’s liking pleasure.  I rotate the toys (I got the idea on one of these forums) b/c they seem to get bored and/or overwhelmed.  They seem to like new stuff, so rotating tends to trick them.  Another toy fav @ our pet therapy program were cardboard construction tubes, homemade digging boxes, and paper bags. 

All my rabbits also love(d) balled up newspapers stuffed in a tunnel.  Currently I do this w/ their willow tunnel w/ a treat in the middle.  I also put misc toys w/in the layers of balled up paper.  It’s a real mess to clean up, but looks like a real big party, that I wasn’t invited to.  I also sometimes shred newspaper in my shredder and just build up huge piles of paper shreds.  Again, it’s a mess but it seems to keep them very entertained.

I think the willow is a great idea – I have some bunnies that nibble it, and some bunnies that try to eat an entire tunnel, and I haven’t had any dietary problems related to that at all. If you are nervous that Bindi will eat too much, let her have the willow toy for a couple hours, and then take it away until you are more comfortable with how she does with the willow wood.

Willow is rarely a problem – good fiber content! The only way I could ever see it being a problem is if a bunny loved it so much that it would fill up and eat nothing else. But, most bunnies have no problem eating their greens, hay and pellets in addition to chewing and eating willow

Pippi is a willow junkie! 0.o; She seriously needs rehab before she finishes off the tent and two playhouses I got for the two of them!
I bought a ton of willow sticks for my buns this month. Oddly enough they’re not eating them as quickly this time. Mimzy sure liked the little candy canes though.
I’m glad to hear they are mostly fiber. Pip is pushing the envelope at having some poopy butt issues and she needs all the fiber she can get. But to date I’ve never seen either bun have digestive trouble with willow of any kind. But does it really do much for boredom?

MimzMum – well, I like to think a chewing bunny is not a bored bunny, and I would rather have a bunny bust the boredom blues with willow than with my furniture : )

If you find that your bunny doesn’t seem to chew the willow sticks, then your bunnies may be like mine – they like things that they can actually easily get a hold of, and sometimes the round light sticks are too much work – they easily roll away when trying to chew…SOOOO, what I do is tie three together and sort of twist so they are not perfectly parallel. This helps because the ones that sort of stick out are easy to chew on and also, that configuration helps put the brakes on when they are being pushed on. Does that make sense?

EDITED: spelling – geesh, I always write so fast that I just pay zero attention to spelling and grammar!  Then later, I go check on it, and think….egads – I’m a first grader!

Ahhh! (sees bunny chewing in a whole new light) That makes terrific sense, BB! I hadn’t even though of that!
No wonder Mimzy likes the canes better than the plain sticks! I’ll give it a try.
Yah, they don’t get near my furniture, thank goodness. But Pippi has a tendency to chew her pen (the plastic parts) and I don’t like her eating that stuff. Hence I get her plenty of things to chew.

I actually got willow at the farmer’s market last weekend.  The amish flower vendor brought it in for his neighbor to sell.  He told me that it was pesticide free, so it s/b safe.  It’s called black willow…anyone know if that’s ok?  He recommended putting some in a vase b/c they will grow leaves, than I can make some willow bundles w/ them.  I figure it’s worth a try.  Binky:  I’m assuming that b/f I give it to the bunnies I should remove the buds?

I honestly don’t know what black willow is. I’ve heard of red and weeping willow (we use weeping willow -pesticide free too) I will have to research about black willow. Off I go…I’ll update you on what I find, and if anyone else know for sure about this type of willow, please post!

Well, so far, I found out why I don’t know much about it – it seems to be native to Eastern side of the U.S.    Still checking…….