Does your rabbit attention seek?

What a morning!

I bred Bristlenose Plecs last year, and I had to get rid of the remaining few this morning. The tank is right next to Florences house.

The whole time I was catching them, then tidying up the tank when I got back, Florence was ripping up newspaper, playing with her noisey ball, doing bunny 500s, you name it the lot. As soon as I stopped she went to sleep! It was as if she was jealous that something else was getting my attention

She'd been fed so really had no reason to! I kept telling her that it was her turn next but she wasn't impressed.

Poor neglected bunny

Oh god YES!

I was doing the on-line part of my study course the other night, and Daisy decided to start chewing the skirting! He hadnt done that for ages! So I shouted at him from the table, and he looked at me binkied, and went right back to it just as soon as I looked back at the computer. In the end I had to shoo him into another room to play with OH so that I could get some work done!

oh naughty little monsters!!

and yes buttons regularly does this! His latest craze is pulling my OH's xbox games out of the bookshelf and chewing them!! We aren't sure if this is for attention though or if he wants him to play the game, because he likes sitting next to my OH when he's playing on it, and it's only the F1 2011 game he keeps chewing and he does like watching the F1 when it's on tv!! I think he wants to be a racing driver when he grows up!!

That's brilliant! He's a typical boy, interested in cars.

Does he insist on watching Top Gear too?

He does enjoy top gear actually!! hadn't really thought about it...he really is a typical bloke!!! I was laying on the floor last night and he was sat by my head licking my cheek and then he tried to dive down my shirt!!! I was crying with laughter, ive never felt such ticklyness before!!

Yes

We have newspaper round the external corners of the walls to stop her chewing them, at first I thought she was chewing it because she was hungry. But recently noticed that whether she has food sitting out or not she still chews it. It has become clear in the last few days that the newspaper munching is her way of telling us she wants attention. If the newspaper isn't there she will deplaster the wall.

She also bops us with her nose, grabs and pulls cables, sticks her nose in whatever we are doing, if she's in her pen and wanting out she'll grab and rattle the bars, pull up and rip her blankets.

iiisecondcreep wrote:Yes

We have newspaper round the external corners of the walls to stop her chewing them, at first I thought she was chewing it because she was hungry. But recently noticed that whether she has food sitting out or not she still chews it. It has become clear in the last few days that the newspaper munching is her way of telling us she wants attention. If the newspaper isn't there she will deplaster the wall.

She also bops us with her nose, grabs and pulls cables, sticks her nose in whatever we are doing, if she's in her pen and wanting out she'll grab and rattle the bars, pull up and rip her blankets.

Im sorry to hear about your walls.......but this is Blimmin Brilliant when you think how far she has come! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

lizzi_blackwell3 wrote:He does enjoy top gear actually!! hadn't really thought about it...he really is a typical bloke!!! I was laying on the floor last night and he was sat by my head licking my cheek and then he tried to dive down my shirt!!! I was crying with laughter, ive never felt such ticklyness before!!

Buttons diving down your shirt - that gave me a much needed laugh

iiisecondcreep wrote:Yes

We have newspaper round the external corners of the walls to stop her chewing them, at first I thought she was chewing it because she was hungry. But recently noticed that whether she has food sitting out or not she still chews it. It has become clear in the last few days that the newspaper munching is her way of telling us she wants attention. If the newspaper isn't there she will deplaster the wall.

She also bops us with her nose, grabs and pulls cables, sticks her nose in whatever we are doing, if she's in her pen and wanting out she'll grab and rattle the bars, pull up and rip her blankets.

So brilliant to hear that she has gone from staying in her pen because she was scared, to totally ruling the roost and everything in it!

Katieb wrote:

Im sorry to hear about your walls.......but this is Blimmin Brilliant when you think how far she has come! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

NickieM wrote:

So brilliant to hear that she has gone from staying in her pen because she was scared, to totally ruling the roost and everything in it!

Thanks guys
I can't believe she is the same rabbit! She was so quiet and shy and now she's such a cheeky monster!!
Feel that tonights behaviour was worthy of a little thread bump
A few days ago she braved coming up onto the sofa for the first time. The next night she sat snuggled up beside me watching a film. That was nice! Except when she went to investigate what was on the side table and I heard the clink of bunny teeth on my glass of fruit juice!!!
Mainly she prefers us to go to her when she wants attention, atm my OH is sitting on the floor stroking her because she has been full of beans the last few days and has been extremely attention seeking.
Tonight, she went to chew the speaker cable so I said 'no!', and she looked at me, then went to chew again so I said 'NO!' again and she shook her head and binkied off.
Then she was chewing the corner of the foot rest, again I said 'no' and again, she just looked at me, opened her wee gob as wide as it would go and went to chew the edge of the footrest again, so me: 'NO!' and she just stood there. Gob wide open and wrapped around the corner of the foot rest, as if to say '... oh YEAH?!???!'

iiisecondcreep wrote:Yes

We have newspaper round the external corners of the walls to stop her chewing them, at first I thought she was chewing it because she was hungry. But recently noticed that whether she has food sitting out or not she still chews it. It has become clear in the last few days that the newspaper munching is her way of telling us she wants attention. If the newspaper isn't there she will deplaster the wall.

She also bops us with her nose, grabs and pulls cables, sticks her nose in whatever we are doing, if she's in her pen and wanting out she'll grab and rattle the bars, pull up and rip her blankets.

Except for sticking his nose in, all of these are Radar's favourite things to do when we're not paying him attention. The thing with Radar is, when we get down to pay him attention, he scarpers! Naughty nommin. Not sure about Splash yet, she's still new to us. But she does seem more at ease when she's in her caged area in the living room. At night it becomes her mission to destroy the landing.