Bonding with your rabbit. Week #1

[mocha200]

 

I find that I spend more time researching rabbits then being with my rabbits. I am creating this challenge to help other people like me (or any one who wants to bond with their rabbit) to spend more time with their rabbits and to bond with them.

Week #1 Challenge is….Watching your bunnies eat!

What you have to do for this challenge is while your bunnies are eating their veggies:

1. Sit or lay next to your bunny while s/he eats
2. Talk to them

I don’t know about you guys but I find it adorable to watch how fast they gobble up their veggies. Also, talk to them in a soothing voice. Say their name and let them know you are “safe” The point of this challenge is for the bunny to get used to your voice and being around you.

Please: Spend at LEAST 5 minutes every day this week watching your bunny eat. ( although its hard to stop once you start).
Take one video or picture of you doing the challenge to help motivate each other and show off your cute bunnies. You don’t have to though.

Please Don’t: Touch or pick up your rabbit. We are letting them know we are safe. Moving our hands around and trying to pet them will not help. You may move around while doing this challenge but try to be as still as possible and make any movements slow and calm. No jerky movements.

This challenge is made for every bunny, from shy – tame.

Please tell me bellow if you are doing the challenge. I will be posting a new challenge every week. You can start anytime you want and go at your own pace.

 

 

 

[LoveChaCha]

Good Idea, Mocha!

This morning, I sat next to Chacha while she was eating hay. I was looking into her big brown eyes and talking to her. I took a photo of HER, but not of the two of us, hahaha. Is that okay to post?

[FrankieFlash]

chacha, its ALWAYS okay to post pics of the queen!

Idk if this makes me a little sad but I watch bunjamin eat all the time. And I’ll lay with him occassionally but usually he’ll come ask for pets if I get down there with him. I will do the challenge. Most challenging being getting a picture of me and bunjamin at the same time!

[LoveChaCha]

 

[Binx86]

Squee, ChaCha! Such a beautiful little otter girl!!

I’ll be participating, but I think, since I didn’t notice this until after their nightly veggie hand out, that I’ll post tomorrow (if I remember amidst the packing, 3 weeks till move and the buns get their very own room! -dance-) So if I forget, please excuse the flightyness!

[Beka27]

Neat idea!

If you’re recommending people post pics of themselves with their buns, that’s fine, but for newer people who may not have read the forum rules yet, we don’t allow pics of members under 18 years old to be posted.

[bullrider76543]

I spend a little time each day just laying on the floor talking to them, Blue my flemmish just comes strait to me and climbs all over me and wants to play

[mocha200]

Beka27: No I just meant for them to take a picture or video while hanging out with their buns. They can take pics and video of them and their buns if they wish though!

Thanks for participating. I did it last night while the bunnies ate their salad. I didn’t get any pics/vid but I have all week for that!

[mocha200]

Chacha: Love her!

[FrankieFlash]

mocha: that was me that misunderstood. I’m kinda relieved the pics don’t have to include us! I think I would fail every week. I only have one set of pics from me and bunjamin and I had to be super ninja to get them!

[BridgetteBunny]

This is a great idea. Since I am beginning the bonding process with my new girl this will give us something to work on. I work best with goals! I would love to share my progress with you guys. I generally have been leaving her to eat on her own to give her some space but I will try changing it up this week.

[KytKattin]

Nova has a very special way of eating. First, I have to be awake. If I go to sleep, she does other stuff (like eat hay and veggies, but not her treat pellets). But I can’t be looking directly at her. She has to run around the room in circles a few times, showing of her sexy binkying, while I watch, but when she finally does go over to the food bowl, she looks at me, mouth hovering just over the bowl, until I look away. Then she only takes a few bites until later and has to repeat the process.

[mocha200]

KytKattin: Mocha will not eat veggies in front of people he doesn’t know very well like my sisters, mom or dad. Will she eat veggies in front of you?

[KytKattin]

Idk, her veggies are in her cage which is under my bed. And she doesn’t start eating them immediately. She likes to take her time.

[bunnyfriend]

Good idea Mocha!!

I watch Wilbur and Totoro eat all the time, it’s so cute! And when they drink water

I’m going to try this with Wilbur, I really want to bond with her more.

[FrankieFlash]

Here’s my picture evidence:



And here’s one that my bf help me add text to

[mocha200]

HAHA! Love tha last picture! Don’t worry You will be able to be pet in later weeks.

[LoveChaCha]

Do I.. do I SEE A TONGUE?!?!?!

[Binx86]

I also love the last one!! SOOO adorable and such a disapproving look, almost bored! :3

[Freyja]

not the best action shot..

 

the camera cord is much more tasty

 

and a nap straight after, eating is such hard work

[FrankieFlash]

Thanks guys. Bunjamin is all about the pets!

I wish chacha, it was radicchio I believe! But I like to pretend it’s tounge. lol

Freyja, such a cute bun you have. I might have to bun-nap! I especially wanna bun-nap the bunny napping in the last picture (sorry couldn’t help myself!)

[mocha200]

Awwws! Love the last picture! I took some pictures of my bunnies eating last night, I will have to upload them later today.

[angelfish312]

I absolutly  love this challenge. Maybe I can actuallly keep with it unlike my diet . I have only have been doing this for a couple of days and I can already tell Bunny is becoming used to me being around  a little more then she used to.

Now on to the cuteness!

 

Can’t quite get it.

 

Excuse me, don’t you have something better to do slave?

[LoveChaCha]

Ehehe, i’m loving all the photos so far!

Being a bunny is so hard.. haha. I told my dad today “Chacha does not want to contribute to the household ..look at her, she is passed out in her maze haven. It is so hard being a bunny (*sarcasm*).”

[bunnyfriend]

Hahahhah ChaCha

[LittlePuffyTail]

OMG Freyja that passed out pic is too adorable!!!

[KytKattin]

On a side note, I have noticed that Nova is obviously more active in the morning when I first wake up because she is crepuscular. I understand that. What I don’t understand is why she waits to eat her cecotropes until I am watching. She gets all excited in the morning, zooming around, and then she will stop and eat them, and then she will zoom around more. She doesn’t do this in the evening. Is there like a normal time for them to eat their cecotropes? Or is it just direct correlation between my feeding her aprox 12 hours before?

[Stickerbunny]

Powder always eats his at night, around 2amish. I feed him at 9pm so I don’t think it has to do with feeding time, every bunny probably has a different schedule for that.

[FrankieFlash]

I’ve noticed my bun is more “naughty” and playful in the morning (binkies and zoomies galore) then in the evening. I haven’t noticed the cecoptropes thing but I’ve been wondering why he’s more active in the morning and not the evening. I even broke out his last willow wreath last night in hopes of getting some binkies but nope. Just calm noms.

[Binx86]

Head exploding from bunny nap picture! I can never catch my boys sleeping like that with a camera, soo jealous!

And I have a video! There’s even bits of tongue showing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5E01Z8tTs4&feature=youtu.be

[Sam and Lady's Human]

I’ve been in my bunnies face while they’ve been eating the last few days, since they get their pellets when they are together bonding

[mocha200]

Finally uploaded some pictures of my bunnies eating! 

Lulu: Get that camera out of my face! 

Mocha: CHEESE!

Mocha and Lulu both squished in the same litter box after I put fresh hay in. (note: I am not using hay racks ATM because they always find a way to pee in them! LOL

 

[Pandorachik]

I will take pics later but I watched Pablo eat this morning <3

[Sam and Lady's Human]

haha Mocha!! How could they possibly pee up there????

[Stickerbunny]

S&L, you’d be surprised how good bunnies are at peeing in places. I have to scrub pee off my walls sometimes because Stickers somehow pees waaaay up it and it drips down. :s

[mocha200]

SLH: they sit ontop of the wire and eat and end up peeing. It is a dreadful sound of dribbling pee all the way down from the hay rack onto the floor. And it is always right after I have gotten in bed!

[bmt87]

 1) Lola prefers to eat and poop at the same time – hence, this is where she gets her nightly pellets.  2) Yes, that is a poop floating in her water dish…she does it EVERY single night before she takes a drink. 3) Literally, two minutes after this photo was taken – she ate half a button off the remote control.  Guess she thought we didn’t need the “On Demand” button.  

UPDATE: now there is a hole in the recliner.  she is lucky she is so darn cute because this whole puberty thing is ROUGH.

[LittlePuffyTail]

Love that pic of Lola! When Bindi is out in the living room he does the same thing: Butt in the potty and face in the hay basket. Funny Bunnies!

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