Calling All Rabbit Nutters

[BelovedBirds]

Got a question for you all.

I’m going to be getting a rabbit again, and I’m trying to figure out what to put in the run to enrich its life and entertain it. I have a run design already, I’m just trying to figure out what else to put in there besides a house.

Any ideas?

My bun has a bunch of toys, I choose more natural toys, no dyes, no glues. Just natural materials, safe wooden toys. She nibbles them and picks them up and runs around with them
She also loves tunnels, but I tend to get the ones made with wooden sticks held together with wire, as she chews plastic ones. If they like digging, which mine does, I reccomend a dig box. Full of dirt if outside, or something like carefresh if inside. I have mine inside so I use a deep tray of carefresh and toss in dried dandelion and herbs, mix it up. Keeps her entertained for ages. I wouldn't mix treats into the dirt option, but it can be enjoyed equally. She had a dirt box before she lived inside, and she liked digging about in it. (Necessary as the ground wasn't deep enough to dig due to wiring the underside of the pen)
I reccomend enrichment like that

We also swap her toys around every once in a while to make sure she's got a variety.

There are also edible toys/treats made from hay or other similar materials. Every once in a while we give her sticks from out apple tree and she enjoys the bark as a treat.

Things like this I find matter for enrichment and preventing boredom, which can become destructive.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Long time since we had a bun.
He was a meat rabbit, lop cross.
Spoilt boy - but had to have him and the Jack Russell fenced apart.
He was as big as her so she could not kill him - but wanted to.
Used to dig huge tunnels round the avairies, as he lived semi wild there - if you call having a corner of the yard fenced for your use, but being picked up and cuddled like a baby, semi wild.