How delicate is a bunny?

[Mimsy]

Willow is starting to make me paranoid with her jumping on stuff.    She seems to really like to get as high as she can.  I’ve caught her jumping to high shelves and even may husbands desk.  The thing that freaks me out is she misses a ton.  I just watched her to do a face splat on the side of the desk and then fall to the ground.   She went to jump onto my dresser (there is no way she can jump up on this, it’s almost 5 foot tall), I don’t know what she was thinking..super bunny I guess, but she of course hit and then tumbled to the floor on her side.    I found her on a 4 foot shelf in the kitchen in one of my big spaghetti bowls earlier today too.

How high risk is this behavior?  I’m hoping she’ll outgrow it a bit since she is so young.

The only place blocked in the house, that doesn’t have an actual door to shut, is my husbands desk because there are just too many wires there to cover.   So it’s fenced completely so there is no going behind it.  She spends a lot of time kicking the hell out of the fence.

What is the chance of her injuring herself?  `Reading this forum is making me more paranoid since it seems they can get hurt relatively easily.

[BB & Tiny]

I know right ? I’m completely paranoid about everything after reading in here.

” I found her on a 4 foot shelf in the kitchen in one of my big spaghetti bowls earlier today too ”

Although that seems dangerous, it must have at the time hilarious to find her in the bowl !

I worry most when Josephine jumps down she will break a bone in her foot or leg. As for tumbling I don’t know the risks, hopefully someone who has had a baby bunny can shed some enlightenment.

[LBJ10]

Spiderbuns are common when they are young. It seems a lot of bunnies outgrow the behavior, partially because it becomes more and more difficult as they get bigger in size. Young bunnies are surprisingly springy and resilient. That doesn’t mean they can’t and don’t hurt themselves. Is there any way to block off these places with the really high, yet tempting heights? At least until your bunny is older and finds all that climbing tiresome.

[Mimsy]

I could keep her in her pen, but she will be sad. She acts like I’m abusing her by putting her in there at night.

[lillian]

Oh both my grumpy old bum and spider bun still call abuse when I put them in their cages! Lol

Despite being 2 years old, Quicksilver still gets in a lot of trouble with his jumping. I’ve come home a couple times to find him laying in the trash bin and can’t get out! We finally had to get a bin with a lid! We too have a makeshift gate around our computers, and have to replace it or fix it a couple times where the buns chewed through.

I have had to limit my rabbits to the living room and the one thing I found that works, is the same type of makeshift gate I use for the computers. What we use reminds me of chicken wire or gating but it’s a green plastic, got it at the hardware store, and it’s about 5 feet tall and the holes pretty small. We were able to get one side permanently attached with some stretching of the plastic and some nails, and then attach the plastic to the other end with another nail in which it has to be stretched to fit on so it can’t be knocked over. We also attached some velcro to the permanent end so we could roll it up against the wall when the buns aren’t on the loose!

[lorree]

I’ve always thought they were very delicate too, but my bunny has also done crazy stuff. Just today I watched her jump over her cubby house and do a face plant into the edge of my bed. And I freaked but she just sat there looking at me like “what’s wrong with u human, I’m fine”

[Mimsy]

Oh, on my list-garbage with lid. We have one with the swinging thing at top. Right now she has not noticed it.

Our living room/kitchen/office/dining room is all basically one big space. We used her pen as a fence in the kitchen untill we were sure she was using the litter box.

she doesn’t have access to the laundry room, too many electrical dangers in there. The mud room, which is really used as my husbands tool room and the dog room, complete with dog door to the back yard, so no bunnys in there either. The dogs are fine with her, it’s the dog door that is not ok. Bedrooms are mostly shut, except my own since I use the computer and tv in there and the birds would scream if I didn’t let them follow me around the house. Which is why I’m trying to convince Willow not to pee on my bed. I ended up getting a piece of oilcloth to put on top of the bed if I’m not right there.

There is no getting around the desk, I had several pens from my ferrets and I took the one that is probably 30 years old and the hinges loose on and just took it apart and hubby screwed it onto the desk. She can kick it, but it’s futile. She can however get on top of the desk.

The green netting you use I’m aware of, it works to keep our starling out of places lol. I would think the buns would chew through it if they got determined.

Our your guys spider bunnies little ones? I wonder if those little guys can just get away with more. Easier to jump high, landing isn’t as hard. At least bunny poo is easier to clean than bird poo. I get up before sunrise every morning to do critter waters/poo clean up/food refreshers before everyone is up and starting again.

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