For the most part, Cocoa is on my schedule. Of course, I am a stay-at-home-mom, so there is activity throughout the day. She seems to catnap through the day. But there are times she wakes us up (down the hall, with 2 personal Honeywell fans on) at night making tons of noise digging or scrambling around…

Most of my rabbits sleep all of the time.

Unfortunately Pepe is awake at night and jumping on the bed bothering me. I think he sleeps all day so he can torture me all night

Zeus seems to be on a sleeping pattern that matches with my schedule, mostly. 

He’s asleep from about 9:00am-5pm…

VERY active 5pm-10pm, winding down between 10pm-Midnight…

then usually out cold by 12:30am. 

He sleeps until about 4am, but usually isn’t totally and fully awake until about 6:30am.

7am, he’s up and VERY active until I leave for work around 8:30am.

It’s really interesting to watch him if I’m home sick, whether I’m there or not 9am = NAP TIME.  That’s non-negiotiable!

Roughly, mine are full of beans from around 8pm to 1am then out for the count. They live in the kitchen and woe betide anyone who gets up for a drink in the night. They are up from about 6am, but quieten down from about 9am until late afternoon. They used to nap from lunchtime but now they have free time from 10am-3pm they have definitely got later in their nap time.

 Sammy naps everyday no matter what from about noon to 5PM. He’s super active in the morning before I leave for work, and at night when I get home from about 6:30PM to midnight. The rest of the time he alternates between energetic and flopped out… and at night I have no idea LOL

He gets SUPER mad if I try to sleep in on the weekends though. Starts making stuff crash around all over the place… Once I woke up to him having literally reshaped his pen by throwing himself at the walls.

Here’s his daytime nap spot if he’s out of his pen – behind my couch and under my keyboard

Peanut is awake from 7 AM to 9 AM, 11 AM to 2 PM, and 7PM to 1 AM

Not too sure about late night hours.

LOL Sarita, I feel the same way about Indy and Bee. Sleep all day so they can torture me at night.

My guys are really active around midnight, I get headbutts for attention or food. And they are really active at twilight hours too.

Mine are active from about 6pm to 3 am lol. then Moosie wakes up again around 6 am to make a huge mess of his pen before we get up. Then he zonks out around 9 am when hubby gets up til around noon, when moosie plays for an hour then passes out again. Monkey and Smudge pretty much sleep through Moosie’s morning madness lol.

Mine are most active 7 to 8pm till 1 or so am. They are also awake around 6 to 7am for a few hours again.
I know the evening mostly b/c that is when I am home to see, Pitters tries to play when i am trying to get ready for work in the morning, and of course when i am trying to get to sleep at night LOL

Mr. Bunny is the most active from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM and 10:30 PM-2:00 AM. I haven’t had Ms. Rabbit long enough to figure out her most active times, but she seems quite active between 8:30 PM and 1:00 AM.

Mine have never adapted to my schedule really – for the most part they don’t care when I’m home. haha. They typically wake up around 5/5:30 (I think it gets later as the sun gets up later). On the weekends they’re usually active until about 8/9am.

Then they’re usually slightly active again in the afternoon, around 5pm, but only enough to eat some hay – no playing happens at this time. Then they come out and really interact around 8:00. To bad for them we’re not nightowls and we usually start getting them ready for bed (ie getting their dinner ready) around 9/9:30 then locking them up soon after. I wish we stayed up later so we could play with them longer! They’re allowed to play from 5:30 until 9:30, but they sleep through the majority of their play time.

Jenny and Peepers are both very active first thing in the morning and again in the evening..Peepers just chills out during the day, Jenny is active morning till night, always on the go.

everytime i let Chace out,he just plays for like 20 minutes then lounges in a corner for the rest of it so i might have to observe him to see when he’s most active and when sleepy time is.but im pretty sure he’s up at 6 am til 11am.thats the time he chews on everything.-___- he wakes me up everyday.never fails.

Mine have never adapted to my schedule really – for the most part they don’t care when I’m home. haha.

*raises hand* OH that’s mine!

They are sometimes inconvenienced-say on weekends when I have the gall to be home and awake…but during the workday they sleep. You can only tell they are asleep because they don’t respond-Noot and Rupert sleep with their eyes open and Kahlua-well you can’t see hers past all the fur
They are just waking up now (around 10 pm) and will be up and active until about 2-3 am. This is wonderful because they often wake my dog up who then wakes Dave up to let him know the bunnies are throwing phonebooks around and he’d like to play too…and they’re usually buggering around when I leave for work-around 8 am.

Wow, I must have a weird bunny. Baxter is up and active at 5 am and he roams around and begs for attention off and on for most of the day. He naps during the day too but he sleeps with his eyes open so sometimes its hard to tell if he is actually sleeping. Sometimes I have to poke him to make sure he is alive. That’s kinda freaky sometimes lol. He is very active around 7pm until I go to bed around 11 or 12. Then I don’t hear from him until the morning when he is scooting his food bowl around to tell me to feed him. All in all he is on my schedule. Bella (Billy) on the other hand always drove me crazy all night!

I had to laugh at Otti’s post. Larry will not let me sleep in! It’s forbidden. Him and the cat. Larry will throw stuff, tear his cottontail cottage, push the sides of the pen out, etc, etc until I get myself up and let him out. This is usually between 6:30 and 7:00 in the morning. So on weekends I get up, let him out, and go back to bed! Well, feed the cat and then go back to bed.

I have noticed that caged buns seem to have a different schedule then a free range.  Oreo, who has been free range since we brought her home at 4 months is very comfortable anywhere in the house.  She actually snores when in a deep sleep and her eyes are closed.  If you wake the “Queen” before she is ready it can be a little bit of a battle.  For example I was running the vacuum under the bed on a Saturday morning and she was sleeping, it didn’t matter how close I got to her with the sweeper she wouldn’t wake up and move.   She finally woke up growled at the sweeper, looked at me moved a few inches and went back to sleep.  (what a life)

Bubba, whose primary residence was a cage has never slept with his eyes closed, seemed move active when left out of the cage.  Now that he is free range he is skiddish when in an open area.  (it’s only been about three months since he hasn’t been caged)  I have noticed his activity is less. 

Mine sleep all night…I can hear Molly in the early mornings rearranging the cardboard boxes, but then about 6 am everything is quiet again. At my old job, I had to get up at 5 am, and I would scare them completely as I got up to get dressed because they were sound asleep. But from 7 am to 8 pm they are wide awake. Okay, so they do sleep a bit around noon, but it is short periods of sleep and then troublemaking. But it is honestly hard to say as I don’t keep my eyes on them all the time and when I think they are snuggling, they are perhaps deeply asleep.

I am not employed, so I spend all day with them and I honestly find Molly awake all the time. Most of the time, I cannot find Freddie or Karl because they are sleeping under the couch, but Molly is one duracell bunny and is always busy doing something.

Posted By Petzy on 10/06/2010 09:21 AM
This is such a good point, Elrohwen. I think many rabbits are locked up when they would be active.

This is exactly why they have such a huge enclosure, because I know there are times they would much rather be out, but we have to lock them up. It might be a bit of overkill, but I feel better locking them up at 9:30 since they have a full 8’x4′ area to run around in. Once we move to a house in the next year or two I hope to give them a full bunny room to call their own, especially because we’ll have a puppy and until the puppy can get along with them (while supervised, of course) they’ll have to be locked up more than usual. Otto is happy never leaving his cage area (he only leaves if we carry him out in the maze, and even then he’ll sometimes run back) so I think he has plenty of room. Hannah’s really the one who needs as much space as she can possibly get (and 8’x4′ isn’t big enough for her)

Posted By DawnT on 10/08/2010 11:11 AM

I have noticed that caged buns seem to have a different schedule then a free range.  Oreo, who has been free range since we brought her home at 4 months is very comfortable anywhere in the house.  She actually snores when in a deep sleep and her eyes are closed.  If you wake the “Queen” before she is ready it can be a little bit of a battle.  For example I was running the vacuum under the bed on a Saturday morning and she was sleeping, it didn’t matter how close I got to her with the sweeper she wouldn’t wake up and move.   She finally woke up growled at the sweeper, looked at me moved a few inches and went back to sleep.  (what a life)

Bubba, whose primary residence was a cage has never slept with his eyes closed, seemed move active when left out of the cage.  Now that he is free range he is skiddish when in an open area.  (it’s only been about three months since he hasn’t been caged)  I have noticed his activity is less. 

I have noticed this with mine as well. Otto isn’t necessarily free range, but has always had as big of an enclosure as he could wish for (he’s not very active). He sleeps with his eyes full closed, right out in the middle of the living room without a care in the world.

Hannah lived in a 3.5’x1.5′ cage for 3 years until we got her and I think I’ve only seen her sleep with her eyes closed once or twice, and only in her maze haven with Otto next to her. She’s always on high alert and less likely to plop down in the middle of the living room. She’s also much more active.

When I adopted Vivian, she had her schedule set to a more day schedule. She was busy and active during the day and slept at night. She was in a shelter for two years, and so I bet she had just adapted to the busy goings on during the day and slept more at night. But since she’s been with me she has changed to Jack’s schedule. They are huge loungers all during the day. IF you have ever seen them on webcam, you’d never imagine those big loafs would be running around like little nuts in the late evening and early morning. It’s 1am and they are running around the house right now.

Steve gets up early and says also run back and forth through the hallways between the bunny room and the living room around 7 – 8am. Then around 9am, I find them active in the bunnyroom, but settling down.

Every night I set up a little “Haven town” with all the cardboard structures and tunnels in the living room. They normally come out around 10pm, though they have come out earlier than that, and sometimes it will be not until Midnight. But each time, Jack goes out there, he sits in the middle of the living room and looks around for his play stuff to be put down. The moment I put it down, he starts exploring. Then he and Vivian play chase and lounge for a few hours. I’ve been trying to record because the only time anyone can actually see them is on webcams during the day when they are mostly lounging around. The only problem is we don’t have very good evening lighting so it always comes out a bit dark and Vivian is hard to see. (but at least Jack stands out even in the low light)

The other day though they were getting antsy because they had been locked up in their bunny room for three days while Steve’s dad was visiting and earlier in the evenings they would be by the gate asking to be let out to the rest of the house, and for the last few days, they have gone out during the day to play a bit. SO they obviously can change pretty quickly.