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Well I’ve tried a zillion and one toys for Leroy and none seemed to excite him until….
I bought him one of those cheap kitty jingle balls (the plastic ones with all the holes the bell and the catnip inside – I poked the catnip out through one of the holes though). Leroy loves it! He carried it around and everything when I first gave it to him yesterday, and today he went back to it again and rattled it all around. I’m also teaching him to go touch the ball with his nose when I say “ball” (the beginnings of fetch
)And… I got him a cat treat dispenser and put his pellets in it. One of these: http://www.petsafe.net/Products/Feeders/SlimCat.aspx Leroy is so food driven that he had no problem figuring out how to roll it around and get his pellets out. I think he had more fun rolling it then eating the pellets though… You can see in the video how there are zillions of pellets just left around (Leroy went back for them later, of course)
Jeannie was less than impressed when I showed her the jingle ball, and only gave the treat dispener a nudge or two… she’d much rather let me roll it for her and pick up what comes out or just eat out of my hand
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I got the treat ball at Pet People (the jingly ball too). I don’t know if it’s a national pet store chain or not but they’re one of the few stores that sells Oxbow hay and pellets – they also have a big emphasis on all natural dog and cat food
I’d just look for a cat treat dispenser – the dog treat dispensers are generally too big and heavy for bunnies, and the holes were too big for the pellets, and most of the dog ones were made out of rubber which i suspect would be very fun for sharp little bunny teeth to nip off and eat 
Bren, I was worried Leroy would use his diggy box it as a litter box too, but he’s pretty good about his litter box habits, and honestly – he wasn’t impressed by the diggy box I made for him. Jeannie doesn’t use it either. :/ meh. You win some, you lose some
Elrohwen, that’s hilarious that Otto does that too! I think it’s the cutest thing ever when they get so wrapped up in their toys like that
And there’s all kinds of things you can do with a bunny that knows how to play ball… push it through a goal, drop it though a mini basketball hoop, put it in a “toy box” 
MirBear, I did some reading on catnip, and apparently humans can drink catnip tea, but it’s just calming for us, so idk if it will have the same effect on bunnies as it does on cats.
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