Non-edible toys

[VelvetLopBunz]

I am in need of toys that my bunnies can’t eat! They have a few cardboard boxes and toys but I don’t know of many non-edible toys to keep a bun busy for more than 3 seconds. They not only shred, but eat any paper or cardboard in sight. I’m looking for things like a slinky, baby keys, tunnels… What are your bunnies’ favorite toys and where can I find them? Diys or store bought

[LittlePuffyTail]

My boys have hard plastic baby rattles. I think I bought them at the dollarstore. Just make sure that the whole thing is very hard plastic.

My Olivia used to love slinkies but I would recommend them under supervision only as I recently read about a bunny getting tangled up in them.

[VelvetLopBunz]

Thanks! I’ve never thought about the rattles or a bun getting tangled in a slinky before!

[sarahthegemini]

I got my bunnies some baby stacking cups which I honestly thought they’d ignore but they love them! They knock them down and pick them up with their teeth and chuck them. Buttercup even knocks them down before I’ve finished stacking them lol. They love them even more when I put treats in the cups!

I’m also thinking of getting some plastic bowling pins to see if they’d have fun with those.

[Azerane]

Plastic baby keys, stacking cups, definitely agree with slinkys under supervision only. You can also get those plastic baby links and hang them up around the cage. Even hanging plastic bird toys.

With stacking cups, my pair love knocking them over, but even more Apollo loves to unstack them. If I have them all stacked up he will unstack them one by one It’s so cute. Luna loves playing with the keys, throwing them back and forth and I’ve even seen her carry them around the cage.

[LittlePuffyTail]

Yes, my Olivia also loved baby stacking cups!

[Luna's Mom]

I also use those interactive dog games with Luna. Right now I only have one we use at bed time, but I want to get her more. She loves doing it. It was a good way to get her in her cage at bedtime without having to force her ti go in. She goes right in when I say it’s night night time Luna because she knows she will get her game with something good to eat in it!

[MeketatenBun]

Meki has some solid plastic cat toys with rattles inside. It took FOREVER to find non-fuzzy, non-holey ones, but when I did it was great. She can’t get her teeth wrapped around any part of them to chew, so she nuzzles them around her cage. If I toss one up quickly so it hits the ground, she starts binkying, haha

[vanessa]

I like baby toys. My bunnies toss around rattly keys, plastic bracelet-style collections, and they also like parrot toys. You know those metal sticks that are about 8 inches long, really skinny, and you can thread apple sticks, lava bites, wooden colored fruit shaped things, and at the bottom – a bird bell? And they hang? Guin loves tossing it around. She nibble on the lava rock, and likes the jingly sound it makes. It is easy to keep her occupied. The other pair – Avalon and Morgana, are not as easy. They devour and destroy everything in their path or under their path. They gnaw on pine untreated 2×4 wood, their wooden house, and they like their scratch pads. They do need to be worked on periodically. I took a NIC cube panel and weaved rope into it. After a year, the panel has about 40% of the rope left. I also bought them a sisal dig box from Etsy.com. They pull the sisal rope knots out of the wooden board, which is the whole idea, and cheap enough for me to replace the sisal rope. After a year, that board also has about 40% of it’s rope. I also bought them a dig box from Etsy that I filled with sand. I also find that it helps to periodically rearrange their items – like I move the ramp from this side to that side of the bunny castle. Swapping out toys helps too. Pine cones. Take a dried banana chip (or skip the chip), and give them plain pine cones, or pine cones that you wrapped up with sisal rope. I used to give them towels to toss around – but now I only give Guin and Lancelot towels. Morgana and Avalon destroy them.

Here’s another way of looking at it. Rabbits are little destructor machines. They love destroying things. It beings them pleasure. If toys are nouns, and the act of destroying is a verb, bunny’s like the noun kind of toys – AND the verb kind of toys. So although it would sometimes be easier for us if they would just stop destroying things – since it is in their nature, I like to provide them things that are safe and cheap to destroy, and that will take them a while. Like the sisal-weaved NIC panel, and the sisal-knotted scratch board from Etsy.

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