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I just adopted my very first house rabbit last week, and I’m so thrilled with how wonderful she is! Maple Tiberius B– is wild rabbit colored, brown with a little white tail, and she seems really big for how little she weighs.
Maple was found abandoned in a rental property by the rental manager and turned over to our local animal control. She’s a fully grown adult, with no signs of seniority, so my vet guessed her to be somewhere around a year or two old. My husband and I have arbitrarily declared her birth day to be our wedding day (7/10/2011), because it’s roughly accurate and easy to remember. So far, she is shockingly mellow for a rabbit, showing no fear of our toddler niece, Amelia, who tries very hard to be good, but well, is two and gets excited. (No worries, Amelia’s never unsupervised with Maple!)
I’ve been having a lot of fun getting to know her these last few days, and I’m excited about our future together! I’d like to foster other buns eventually, but right now, I live with way too many humans for that to work. One weird thing, though. Maple doesn’t really chew or play! She’s nibbled a twig here and there, and explored her room, but she hasn’t binkied or chewed any of the toys we’ve got her, or even our furniture! The is an unplugged lamp cord that she disdains! The vet said her teeth are fine and she eats plenty, but from what I’ve read it’s really weird.
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She is adorable
It took my guy a while to share with me what toys he wanted to play with. He isn’t much of a chewer, but rather, a tosser. His favorite toys are paper-towel tubes stuffed with hay and treats (treats that rattle are the best, such as a few pellets) and bundles of sticks. He likes to toss the tube around–not chew on it. As for the sticks, he likes to unbundle them from their original binding and then, he likes for me to gather the sticks in my hand, hold them at nose-level, and then he pulls them from my hand, one-by-one, and tosses them to the floor until they are all out of my hand…then I gather them again and he takes them out one-by-one again. He can do this upwards of ten times in a row and gets really excited when he plays. He also enjoys tossing his bunny-rattle and slinky.
It took patience and accidents (me gathering his sticks while cleaning the pen led to the “pick-a-stick” game) to realize his preferences. He does also like chewing certain sticks and demolishes anything made of unpeeled willow. He also likes peeling the bark off of fresh (not dried) apple sticks.
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Maple is so cute! I’m a new bunny slave too so welcome
Ever since getting mine, I can’t stop looking at all these bunny things. As for the litter box, I just got a plastic container/bin from target but you could get them from the dollar store too and they work really well.
I was using hay in the litter box for a while but kept running out quickly, so I had quite a few people recommend horse stall pellets. They work great! But you may have already found a litter that works really well for you. Just a suggestion
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