I CANT SLEEP

[jamiec]

Hi my rabbit Coco is one of hte sweetest rabbits i’ve ever met in my life. She’s pretty much like a cat and she cuddles with me and all that lovelyness. However, at night when i put her away in her cage when i go to sleep she shakes her cage uncontrollably. She just bites on the metal and shakes it until i wake up ….whcih i always do and i have to let her out or she wont shut up!! its starting to get a bit ridiculous. I need help. any suggestions??

 

 

[BinkyBunny]

Try giving her projects to keep her busy. A cardboard roll stuffed with hay and greens and/or try some of the other homemade toy ideas from the the Toy Test Section https://binkybunny.com/BUNNYINFO/ToyTest/tabid/65/Default.aspx. Now of course, these could get noisy too, but hopefully not enough to wake you up.

If you let her out, does she have free range, or can you get an xpen where she can play – you can put boxes in there and what not to keep her busy but yet safely confined.

The other options I know of are get a white noise maker – like a little radio with wind, ocean, white noise sounds or use headphones to listen to a CD that has white noise on it.

Someone else who has been through this may have more suggestions!

Let us know what ends up working for you.

[Beka27]

oh man. this is tough. my first thought would be, like BB said, to give her things to chew or pay with and if possible give her a larger area. either build a condo or provide an xpen for added SAFE playtime. if she’s not used to being confined at all during the day and then suddenly at night she is confined, i can understand how this would not be to her liking. in addition to that, it sounds like she’s got YOU “trained”… she’s now learned that if she rattles the bars, you let her out. as long as that continues to work for her, she will continue doing it.

if providing more space and nighttime distractions does not work, could you maybe move her out of your bedroom? is there another area in the house that gets a lot of daytime traffic that she’d have company during the day and could do her own thing at night? or… is it okay if she is granted free-range in your bedroom at night? is everything bunny-proofed thoroughly? what about getting rid of her cage and giving her a corner of the room with her food, hay, litterbox…

bunnies are crepuscular. that means they are active in the late evening hours (9pm-12am) and early morning hours (5am-10am), so just when you’re trying to get to sleep is when she’s going to want to play, and in the morning when you’re trying to snooze thru the alarm… we have a bunny room that is connected to my bedroom. you have to walk thru the bunny room to get to my room. my house is old and doesn’t heat well in the winter, so we HAVE TO leave our bedroom door open to get warm air in there… and let me tell ya, those bunnies are LOUD…

[Balefulregards]

My Coco greets your Coco!

Honestly…when My Coco did this…we just bagged the night cage and bunny proofed the room. She is free range 100% of the time in our/her room and most nights she conks out when we do ( although there is a rare ( and sweet) night visit when she demands rubs from a sleepy human.)

I couldn’t take the cage rattling. I even tried covering her – which helped a bit for a while.

And I think you can see exactly how I ended up with a Family bed when my daughter was an infant….I have no ability to withstand assaults on my sleep.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

What worked for me, rather then trying to get them to go to sleep at night or trying to ignore is to keep them up during the day. Even if you aren’t home, keep the lights on during the day and put a tv or a radio on for them. This also helps keep them company during the day This pretty much keeps them mostly up during the day and the night time is sleepy time

[Scarlet_Rose]

Hi starj! Something that I do with my two is cover thier cage when it is bed-time and the noise level is kept at a minimum. It is something fairly simple that you can try to see if it helps (try a sheet or old blanket), otherwise you may want to consider moving Coco to another room at night so you can get your sleep. Let us know how it goes!

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