TimTim thinks he’s Spiderbun!

[jerseygirl]

These young’un buns….TimTim is getting too confident! Almost every day he is getting more game during his out of cage time.  

Pretty sure he’s attempting to jump from the bed to the top of his condo.  He hasn’t achieved that (yet) but he IS running up the side of it!  It’s 2 grids high and he just runs straight up. I take him off, he does it again, over and over. I put a box at the top to put him off and he has been determined to over come it. He ends up hanging on the top grid making enough noise til I go pluck him off. 

I’m not sure how to go about preventing this. I don’t want to put anything permanently on the outside of the grid because it will be too closed in when he’s in there. I’d rather not buy anything but will if I have to. Coroplast boards propped against the sides? Or cardboard?

[mocha200]

LOL that must be entertaining to watch! why not try a blanket so it can be taken off when needed?

[jerseygirl]

It is and I can’t help but laugh but I worry also. He’s going to lose a nail or land wrong one day! I thought something like a sheet or blanket but I think he’d still manage it. Not slippery enough. I also thought of the vinyl tableclothes I was using to cover the bed but I’m afraid he’d rip at it and eat it.

[Huckleberry]

HAHAHAHA! Oh, I would love to see a video of that!
When buns get an idea in their head, we may as well be running head first into a brick wall. They do not give up, and they will not be defeated.
When Huckleberry was still a baby and small enough to sit in my hand, she was too small to jump up onto the couch. One day when my boyfriend was laying on the floor and had his feet propped up on the love seat, she ran up his legs and onto the small couch. She was so happy she binkied. “I found a new place! Yeah!” Later that week, she wanted to get back up there but without her ramp, she couldn’t figure out how. She raced back and forth along the L the couches made, determined to figure it out. Eventually, she used my backpack to get up to the longer couch. It still wasn’t what she wanted, she wanted the short couch. So she sat there, raced for a while on the couch and sat and thought some more. Finally she figured out that she could jump the small gap between the two couches. She finally landed on the small one and flopped over for a nap. I watched the whole process and decided my bunny was a brilliant problem solver haha.
Sounds like you have an Einstein on your hands, too. Good luck with him. I agree with the blanket idea, just clothes pin it around the cage when he isn’t in it and take it off when he is in.
-Casey

[Sonn]

LOL!

Dini has began the exact same thing! I ended up getting a piece of plexiglass and attaching it to the side he is fond of climbing. He didn’t know it was there since it is clear went to run up it and just slid back down it was quite funny to see. He hasn’t tried since.

[jerseygirl]

heh heh… Sonn, I thought you might be facing similar antics after seeing your post about Dini’s condo. I thought of him and Petzy’s Neigey bun-goat when posting this.

So I had 2 left over grids and have managed to deter TimTim for now. I put them on the top where he was climbing and created a little overhang, sort of like eaves. He’ll probably try the other side where I haven’t done this now.

The other night I let him out in the room and went off to do something for about 15 minutes. When I came back I couldn’t find him. Then I heard a little movement. I have a set of drawers that have a gap underneath and he does go under there. So I’m looking and can’t see him but can hear him. The middle draw does not always go right in so I carefully pulled it out expecting to find him in there. Nope. Once i pulled it right out though, there he was siiting in the middle of the bottom drawer. Lol! He’d gone under then between the 2 inch gap between the back of the draw and inside of the cabinet to get into the draw.

Bunny proofing is an ongoing process.

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