| Rabbits have to sit in their cage all day long being bored till you come to play with them. During this time, some will find ways to get themselves in trouble, like taking their food dish to play with (which causes them to waste all the food inside it), learning how to open their cage and exploring the whole rabbit barn all night, ect. I've had all this and more happen with my rabbits, so I started giving them toys to play with, which almost all these problems went away. There's still the occasional rabbit who every now and then dumps it's food, but they don't do it as much as they use to. Rabbits love to make noise. They love tuna cans (make sure there are no sharp edges on it!!) to rattle around. Toilet paper rolls are good also. They will normally eat these, which is alright. You can even stuff them with hay to make it a fun treat. You also can put parrot toys in your rabbit's cage. A kid in my 4-H club makes her own toys for her rabbits. She has a certain kind of yarn/rope that she strings wooden beads and bells on it. She's made my rabbits some of these, which they love. A friend of mine took plastic easter eggs, put a few pennies in it, then glued the ends together so they wouldn't come apart, then gave them to her rabbits. Or you could use medicine bottles, put some loose change in it, then give to the rabbits. You can hang shower curtain rings from the cages (big hit with my rabbits). Give them old telephone books to shred. You could put ping pong balls in the cage, for the rabbits to roll around. Pretty much anything works for them. If you look around your house, you can probably find something to give them. For a longer list of ideas here's a website to view: 3B's Rabbitry Warning: When the rabbit gets tired of the toy, or if they don't like them, they usually put them in their bathroom corner. With toilet paper rolls, cardboard, or paper, this can make it really hard to clean the corners of the cages. |
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