digging and pulling/nibbling clothes

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- 02/26/2011 at 6:23 PM
  meow1
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  I’ve been wondering this for a while, what does it mean when your rabbit digs in your clothes & nibbles and pulls them? He also sometimes licks me around this time. Is it part of a grooming thing or what? And it does NOT appear to be anything bad. It seems likes he’s happy as can be when he does it.
- 02/26/2011 at 7:11 PM
  LoveChaCha
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  Quite normal behavior
  
  My bunny loves to do that, to my blankets especially. when I first got her, she chewed my sweatshirt and pulled on it.
  Rabbits have a chewing and digging instinct, so it is fine I would suggest a towel or a blanket.
- 02/26/2011 at 7:54 PM
  meow1
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  He does it to the clothes I’m wearing lol, I think it’s cute. When I give him a towel or rags, he usually digs/pushes them around and sometimes nibbles on them, but I’ve never seen him tug on them like he does with the clothes I wear.
- 02/27/2011 at 6:22 AM
  Elrohwen
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  Hannah used to do that to my clothes. When she did it, it seemed like play – she would do the same thing to blankets and didn’t seem to realize that I was wearing the clothes and they weren’t just a blanket. Then she’d nip and get skin underneath. Haha.
  
  To get her to stop I did a high pitched yelp everytime she did it and eventually she stopped.
- 02/27/2011 at 6:45 AM
  longhairmike
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  we have a giant pillow (with cover) that i’ll put one of the bunnies on. then i take my hands and make digging motions on it, then they will copy.
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