What will happen if my bun gets to lonely

[Bumbleberry]

Hi guys!
I know I don’t spend enough time with Bumbleberry per day (30 mins most days) but she seems to be ok with it. Yes, she is very happy to see me, but when I let her out for play time, sometimes she doesn’t really even WANT go go out of her pen. She has one of those tiny pet store cages that is attached to an pen that she is in most of the day. If I don’t spend say, 2 hours with her per day, what will happen? She won’t die of loneliness will she? She’s in the garage, so it’s sort of hard to spend much more time with her.
Please reply soon
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[Love4Bunny]

Can you bring her cage and pen into one of the main rooms you spend time in? You can make cages vertical (but not too high) if you don’t have the floor space. I don’t know about the dying thing, but my rabbits love company. I visit them as many times as I can, in addition to their daily run time, stopping by their pen to rub their heads and pay attention to them when I enter the room. Bumbleberry sounds like she is scared of venturing outside of her cage, which is normal. Rabbits are active early morning and evening, so you could let her out for her run time earlier in the morning while you supervise her, and secure any spots you think could be dangerous in the garage, just in case she figures out how to climb (assuming cars don’t go in and out of your garage). Try to include her in any activities you do throughout the day, and relocate your activities to wherever she is, so you can spend as much time with her outside of her enclosure in a bunny-proofed zone.

[Bumbleberry]

First of all, Love4Bunny, Bumbleberry lives in the GARAGE, and has to stay there, so I can’t really put her in a “main room”
Second of all, I have school first thing in the morning, so I can’t spend time with her then.
Thanks for the reply though

[Azerane]

Sometimes rabbits just aren’t in the mood to come and out play. Usually rabbits are most active in the morning and evening. I know you have school in the morning and I don’t know what time you let her out afterwards, but perhaps in the evening instead of the afternoon she would be more inclined to come out and play. Another thing you can do is arrange her feeding schedule around her play time, if you’re trying to encourage her to come out and play, you can feed her pellets or her veggies outside of her cage when you open it to encourage her to come out. The other option is to get up a half hour earlier than you would for school so that you have that extra time to spend with her in the morning. With Bandit, I was getting up a half hour earlier for work than I otherwise had to to make sure that I had the time to let him out for a bit of a play before I left.

She won’t die of loneliness. I’m sure she gets lonely at times, but she won’t die from it. Just spend as much time with her as you can. Even if you only have 1 minute of spare time at other times of the day, go out and give her a pat on the head, every little bit counts. As long as she has plenty of toys she won’t get bored.

[vanessa]

Hi Bumbleberry, I’ve see some of yoru posts, and it seems you are very concerned about your bunny’s emotional well being. It is difficult when we live with our parents, having pets and rules that we wouldn’t choose ourselves. Having a lonely bunny can be stressful for you and the bunny. I think one of myn females gets lonely, because her conded pal isn’t as snuggly as she woudl like him to be. SO I gave her 2 stuffed bunnies to snuggle up to. It helps, although I am currently trying to bond her with my other 2. She won’t die of loneliness, but poor emotional health can be tied to poor physical health. Stress on a bunny often manifests itself in poor gastro functioning. It is often hard to guage just how stressful it is on the bunny.
How much time do you have to spare in the mornings? I find mornign time with my bunnies when I feed them. It isn’t much time int he mornings, it takes me about 20 minutes to get all the animals fed and watered in the mornings before I go to work. Sometimes I have to be at work before 7am. So I get up earlier on those days, so I can still have 20 minutes to feed the animals. (2 dogs, a cat, fish tank, 4 bunnies, and 23 birds). In the evenigns again, I feed the animals, so they are guaranteed to see me twice a day. Perhaps you could establish a twice-a-day feeding schedule to see your bunny more often. You coudl get a stuffed bunny for yoru rabbit to snuggle with. What time f day is her play time? Bunnies are most active first thign in the morning, later in the evening, and in spurts over night. During the day they rest and aren’t very playful. They play in spurts too. Not like dogs, who run all energetically out of a space they have been confined in. Bunnies play, rest, ply rest, etc. So it coudl be that her play time coincides with rest time. It is difficult if you only get 30 minutes a day. Does she have free access to the pen or only during play time? If only during play time – she might enjoy having free access overnight. Perhaps you could open her cage at 5pm when you feed her dinner, spend 30 minutes or so with her, leave her with access to the pen, and in the morning feed her breakfast, and put her back in the cage.

[Love4Bunny]

Just a thought here – you could also spend time with her when you do some homework. Yes, it can be distracting, but it’s an idea that might just work.

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