How Does Your Bun Eat Hay?

[Lightchick]

No, not a diet question!

Both of my buns get hay ONLY in their litter boxes.

Miss Lizzy is a very fastidious bun, and wants everything in it’s proper place.  She sits in the middle of her box, picks out each individual strand that offends her, and chucks it out (onto my floor, of course!).  Then she spins around in a circle, and with one click of her teeth, trims each strand that pokes over the edge of the litter box, until everything fits just-so!  Until she jumps out, and kicks the hay out of place…I have seen her skid to a hault in the midst of a Bunny 500 lap when she hits the litter box, click-click-click the offending overhanging hay with her teeth (again, onto my floor!), and then continue the race!

Below, you can see the bits of hay that are next on her hit-list!

Robbie, on the other hand, doesn’t care how things look, as long as he gets the best pieces!  His method for determining which are the best pieces is to dig his nose into the bottom of the litter box,  and LIFT!  So what was on bottom is suddenly on the top, and he can find the pieces he wants….  Of course, there are casualties of this method, which wind up…you guessed it…on my floor!

[MimzMum]

Let’s see; Mimzy likes to have his hay right next top where he sleeps, so all he has to do is lean over and CHOMP.

Pip will do pretty much the same thing. If I have the hay in any kind of container, she beats the snot out of it till the hay is all over the floor.

Fiver has recently discarded his willow basket that held hay and has his on the floor also, but he does pick and choose the nicest stalks, similar to what ou described with Robbie. As I am trying to clean out his pen and place pieces he has decided aren’t worthy of his palette in the litter box that I am trying to throw away, he will jump into the litter box and pick the pieces of hay up again and toss them back on the floor.
Apparently I am supposed to just leave those lying around. Stupid bunny slave that I am. 0_o;

Also, if I happen to have hay cubes out, those don’t get eaten until I am trying to sleep, and on the floors of the pen for the best reverberating noise possible. >.< NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM!

[LittlePuffyTail]

I put the hay in the corner of their cages. Stormy keeps his in a nice, neat little pile and promptly picks out all the fuzzies (that’s what I call them, I think you know what I mean?). He usually leaves all the brown pieces of hay in a neat little “I’m not eating these ones” pile. Bindi spreads his all over and dunks some in his water dish. After a while of hardcore munching he usually lays down in the pile and continues eating. Olivia makes a huge mess and ends up with half the hay outside the cage.

[kimberleyanddarren]

daxter likes to have his in his litter tray so he can eat it whilst flopped, he will NOT eat hay standing up, he must be in the flopped position, and he does that thing where you know he has to try it loads of times till it feels just ‘right’ and then he will start chomping away picking out the best bits. hopscotch on the other hand will only eat hay out of toilet roll tubes, weird i know. He wont touch it in the hay basket or in his litterbox, only when its been stuffed in a toilet roll, funily enough the first thing he does is yank it out and eat it off the floor, yet if i just leave it on the floor nop wont touch it, god weird buns lol

[hooty22]

Felony doesn’t like his hay near his litterbox… so its in an outside hay box on attached to the other side of his cage. He reaches in between the cage bars and pulls and pulls until he gets rought 8 pieces in his mouth at once. He makes such a racket pulling hay out of the bin…

[MimzMum]

I used to have Mimzy’s in the litter box…but soon found that, although he WILL et it there, he gets irate if it’s in there too long and one end of the box fills up…I must remove it or he’ll start tossing the box.
I love your lot, LPT! How funny that you have one OCD bunny and the others couldn’t care less! I wish Mim would pick out all the brown pieces for me. lolz

[Lightchick]

Bunnies are so funny, with their quirks!

Miss Lizzy, who is normally very neat and proper with her hay-eating, decided to punish me last night.  She is VERY jeolous of Robbie, even though she’s never met him.  She followed me into the living room when I came out of his room, jumped in her litter box, and grabbed huge mouthfuls of hay and tossed them out of the box, onto the floor.  I tried putting them back, and she gave me the stinkeye, and grabbed the same mouthful I’d just replaced, and chucked it back out of the box.  She spun in a circle, until virtually all of her hay was out of the box, on the floor.  Then she glared at me, to make sure I knew this was an insult directed specifically at me, and jumped out of the box and ran home to her hutch.  Leaving me behind with the mess.

Sigh.  I have been chastised!

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