What’s your routine?

[Nibbler&Georgie]

I was just wondering what different routines you all have with your rabbits. I thought it would be a cool way to share haha

I’m lucky and my work allows me to have a mid morning break for a couple hours before I go back to work, so my bunnies get about 45 minutes each of playtime in the morning, that’s generally when I feed them veggies. And then when I get home from work in the evenings I try to give them each a couple hours out for play time. And then when they go back in their cages for the night I give them their pellets. Nibbler will hop back into her cage a lot during playtime, whereas Georgie would rather stay out the whole time. Its so interesting how each bunny is different and have different routines!

[Deleted User]

Weekdays:
5:30am –> pellet feeding while both buns go crazy and try to parkor through the tops of their closed cages
6am –> I leave for work and make sure everything is locked and they have enough water and hay for the day, turn the light off and tell them to have a good day and be good bunnies.
6pm –> I return home, and immediately feed them and I’m greeted with excited bum shakers
6:30pm-12am –> each bun takes turns being out for an hour to an hour and a half. most of the time they’re hopping around and being naughty, and sometimes I’m getting cuddles
12am –> Clean out water dishes and fill them up, and top up hay
Weekends:
9am –> pellet feeding for disgruntled buns that are eating later than the usual 5:30am
9:30am-2am –> if I’m home all day, the buns get equal turns out of their cages (except in the afternoon when they sleep Asriel likes to sleep in his cage and Bombur out)
9:30am-12:00pm –> each bun gets an hour and a half out before I run errands
5pm-2am –> buns alternate time out when I’m home from errands
8pm –> salad time

[joea64]

Weekday evenings:

1) Come home, greet Panda and Fernando. On alternate evenings, empty their litterbox and refill it with litter and fresh hay, also refresh the hay rack on the side of their condo cage.
2) Empty and refill the water bowl, remove their pellet bowl, empty and clean it. Prepare the buns’ evening salad.
3) Give them their greens and fresh water.
4) When they’ve had some time to eat their greens like good little rabbits, give them each an Oxbow treat.
5) Set up the X-pen and attach it to their condo so they have a large space to run and play in, place their large hidey box and cardboard tunnel in the space. Let the buns out.
6) Have daily floor session with the bunnies. Afterwards, do my other things while talking with the buns and offering to pet or nose-boop them if they come up to the X-pen bars.
7) Usually about 7:30 pm, give them a small bowlful (1/4 cup total) of plain rolled oats.
8) The X-pen stays up overnight, at least 9-10 hours on weekdays and up to 12-14 hours on weekends, so that the bunnies have a good long block of time out of their cage.

Weekday mornings:

1) Get up and greet the bunnies. They’re usually in a “pettable” mood in the early mornings.
2) Put fresh hay into the litterbox and empty and refresh the water bowl, remove the (always empty or nearly empty) greens bowl and clean it out.
3) Give them their morning “cereal” (1/4 cup of Oxbow adult rabbit pellets), with another baked treat each for dessert.
4) Take down the X-pen and stow it, making sure the buns are secured in their condo.
5) Get ready for work and say goodbye to the bunnies, tell them to be good and that I love them.

Weekends:

Mostly the same as above, except that Panda and Fernando get at least three or four more hours’ time out in the X-pen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Also, their condo is cleaned on Saturday afternoon, as well as the litterbox. Chat with the bunnies every time I come up to their condo while they’re inside. Fernando is generally more eager to be nose-booped than Panda, who has in the past generally sheltered in one of the hidey boxes, the litterbox or under the ramp between levels, though she’s becoming more outgoing as time goes by.

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