Thanks, I’ll try one of those tonight when I can supervise. I actually saw him with the 24 inch gate–which I actually had sitting about 28 inches up (with another board blocking the underneath)–grab onto the top of the gate and he was using his back feet to try to push himself over! That’s another reason he’s rascally IMO!

Well, apparently my bunny is super precocious! I put up cardboard the whole height and length of the baby gate. Last night he didn’t go over while I was watching him. This morning I did the same and went out to walk my dog. When I came back (I had just gotten back in), I heard the sound of something hitting cardboard. When I went to look, my bunny was in the cat’s room! Maybe it’s because he’d already been there and previously knew what was in the room (that is, that it was “safe” to jump over)?

Tonight I’ll try the ceiling idea…Though I was wondering if maybe hanging a sheet so it looks like there’s a solid wall? Maybe put cardboard behind the gate (so he can’t see from the floor outside) and then hang a sheet that meets the top of the baby gate? Wascally wabbit!

Well, I put up a sheet covering the door just below where the gate comes up to with the cardboard covering the back of the gate, so Benny couldn’t see into the room at all. I took my dog out after a few hours of Benny not going into the room. Came back in, bunny in cat’s room. Truly at wits end now!

I rearranged where the sheet came down to and he didn’t go in at all last night while he was loose. Then this morning while I was walking the dog, came back in to him in the cat’s room. Think he’s too smart for my own good! I think I’m going to have to set up a barrier that I just have to get the cat in and out of myself, which I hate to do–the cat needs her escape route and access to the litter box.

If no one has any more ideas, anyone have any clue as to when Benny will be less likely to want to hop the gate? Like as he matures, will being so curious wane or his legs be less strong by a certain age? It’s been more than a decade since I had a young whippersnapper like him!

So far this is working, though I’m afraid I might be being overly optimistic.  (He has not gone in for a few days before, then figured out the barrier.)  Anyway, I have one of those collapsible cubes attached to a tunnel, then a very slick shelf (I wasn’t using) as a ramp/barrier sloped extremely.  He’s tried running up the ramp to no avail (at least yet) and doesn’t even try to jump on the cube.  The one glitch is that my cat will jump out, but won’t jump in, so I’m thinking I might put the sheet to the side and see if that helps (but hoping Benny still won’t go in).

Well, I think he almost had this one figured out this morning. He was in between the cube and the gate. I think (when I wasn’t looking) he tried to leap the gate from there, as he was breathing pretty heavily and looked a bit stunned. So now I’ve moved the slick shelf longways and have it sloped at an extreme angle. So far he hasn’t tried again except to see that it was very slick. Fingers crossed…though still my cat will come out but not go in!

I tried spraying Febreeze around the area on the cat’s side of the door to cover his scent a few days ago. Yesterday morning when I came back from my walk, he was in the cat’s room again. I’ve again altered the barrier a bit…Guess I’ll see how long it works this time! He’s definitely a relative of Bugs

Glad to hear that you are getting joy out of it. Didn’t really expect more help, I’m starting to think I can’t even help myself

I do think he’s pretty darn smart…my little Houdini of the warren LOL  I’ve also hurt myself a couple of times going over the barrier, but he seems totally fearless and determined…the little rascal 

This week I had my taller baby gate slanted across the floor with its top leaning on the smaller baby gate–so he would have to jump across the big gate and over the smaller gate (which was straight as meant to be), with the slick shelf over the bottom half of the big slanted gate. After a few days, he tried to jump over the shelf covering the bottom half of the slanted gate. His feet fell into the holes in the baby gate and he struggled to get out, finally doing so in a matter of seconds. That made me nervous he was going to hurt himself, so that now I have left the two gates as they were, but I’ve put the shelf away. So far he seems to understand that the larger baby gate has too far across openings to climb and is too big to jump (with the up and over). I also had to put his tunnel in front of the smaller gate, as he was trying to chew through the plastic rungs in the smaller gate!

When you said, “foil all of your plans,” it almost made me feel like a super villain 

Today he was halfway up the leaning baby gate (where the locking bar goes), trying to stand and looking toward the top of the baby gate.  (He is smart enough, or lucky enough, to have jumped right in the middle of the gate width wise where the two panels overlap a bit–as well as where the crossing bar locks–so that he had a bit more support to lean on.)  He was like this at least twice, so I did a further add-on to the barrier.  I now have a collapsed cardboard box over the locking bar to the top of the leaning baby gate (so he can’t jump onto the bar).  Wows, he’s my Houdini Megamind

I can post a pic of this elaborate barrier if anyone wants to see it…Though hopefully no one will need to go to extremes I’ve had to go to LOL