So I adopted my bunny Jasper a year ago, from a family with the stereotypical story of “the kids dont play with him anymore”. He’s truly the most adorable bunny i’ve ever had, he’s a mini lop, and at first all you had to do was sit next to him and he’d be purring so loudly you’d think he was a cat! Now he’s a spoiled brat and will growl if you don’t pet him regularly XD
Anyways he was always getting conjunctivitis, although apparently he had no health problems before coming to me (don’t believe it for a second). His eyes were obviously getting worse, but it took quite a bit of time for the vet to look further than just giving me the same eye drops constantly to do a proper examination and it turns out he has cataracts in both eyes and is essentially blind. Thankfully that led to them prescribing a new type of eye drop and now he’s back to his happy playful cuddly self.
But he’s been getting pretty scared outside, I stopped letting him out of the hutch because he would get lost when it rained and just sit there soaking poor thing but he would still get very upset about being put in the hutch although he was in the house daily for love and cuddles. So I’ve made him a house bunny! He’s litter trained already thank god, I have an upstairs room where I paint with carpet and no wires and it’s been going great. He’s been up there about 2 weeks now, took him the first week to get used to the fact that he’s allowed to walk around, now he runs in circles, you’d never know he was blind!
But here’s my problem. Now the new factor has run out he’s getting bored. He’s grumpy a lot more and starting to chew on the chairs. Slightest bit of attention or playing and he’s running around again like a loon so I don’t think he’s ill. I’ve tried giving him cardboard tubes but he doesnt seem to know what to do with them, he just licks them, realises they aren’t food then ignores them. This is pretty much his go to response to everything, lick it, not food, ignore. So how the heck do I keep a blind bunny entertained?! I already cuddle him for hours a day I physically can’t do more haha