Moon's Graden

My bunny is bored I need something to keep my bunny busy does any body
there have any ideas to help me?

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Sten,

Weird!!  I was just looking on the www for some info on rabbits, since I'm
going to be getting one.  I happened to find the following list and printed
it out.  Then I came and checked this newsgroup, and here was your new
post!  I'll pass this list along to you.  Maybe it will give you a few
ideas.

TOP TEN RABBIT TOYS

Toilet paper & paper towel rolls

Paper cups (not plastic coated)

A discarded phone book--yellow or white pages.  The thicker the better!

Newspaper & white s***paper

Straw baskets

Canning jar rings

Rolled oats box with ends cut off

Soft drink can with a pebble in it for noise

*** balls (unless they chew on them)

Wire ball with bell inside (sold as a cat toy)

Cardboard boxes (tape shut then cut small door)

Colorful, hard plastic caps from laundry detergent & softener bottles
(unless they chew on them).

I got this list from http://www.moonsgarden.com/~carl/paige/care/toys.htm

I'm only passing it on as it is.  As of now, I can't speak from experience.
 Sorry!

By the way, any advice to give a new rabbit owner?  :-)

Thanks!

Mary Lewis

http://www.moonsgarden.com/~Mary1611/index.html

Phone book is great--I left mine on the floor accidentally one day and
one of my rabbits had a great time "reading" the yellow pages (he
happened to totally demolish a page with the heading of "furs" on
it--coincidence?).

Straw basket--my Jersey Wooly, Fuzzy, has his own basket into which he
hops and has a great time gnawing, digging, and scratching in it (make
sure it's a natural, untreated, basket).  

Rolled oats "tunnel" -- both my rabbits love to roll it around,
although they are a bit too big now to go through it.

Wire (or plastic) ball with bell inside--my Netherland Dwarf only uses
this to indicate impatience or irritation.  She throws it into the air
with her teeth.

Cardboard box--I've cut square holes in three sides of an upside down
box (carpet underneath).  The bunnies sit in it, on it, and chase each
other through it.  

Soft drink can--tried this, but my bunny started***ing the opening
and I was afraid she'd cut her tongue on it so took it away.

My own additions: (1) Natural wicker chair.  The bunnies love to jump
up on it, view the world, and then chew holes in it (make sure you get
cheap ones--I found mine at a garage sale). (2) Rice mat (about 2 feet
square or 1x2) from Pier I.  They will sit on it and pull at it, chew
it, drag it around and throw it in the air.   (3) Apple branch
(unsprayed)--finger diameter so it is light enough to drag or throw.
Gives them something good to chew on.  (4) Multilevel platform "tree",
kind of like you see for cats but platforms closer together.  I found a
forked branch and cut one fork off lower than the other and screwed two
platforms to the tops of the forks and a base on the bottom.  The
platforms are where they'll often sleep (make sure it can't tip over).  
(5) Anything else to jump over, in, or up on. I have a "hurdle" between
their sunroom and the livingroom so that the rabbits can come and go
but the guinea pig stays put.  They love to get up speed and soar over
the hurdle (about 6 inches high).

The best bunny toy ever:  another bunny.  

Sorry for the length, but hope this helps.

Petra

My sister (the one that just lost the rabbit) used to get the Quaker
Oatmeal boxes, fill them one third with sand and then use a glue gun to
seal the top back on. After sealing, she woud take a butter knife and trim
down the "seam" that the glue gun made so that it was smooth. She said that
GengiePoo would put his tummy on the center of the box when it was lying on
its' side and rock back and forth.
She also used to fill a few with different things for the noise it makes.  
Never make them too heavy, though!
Also, she used to make cimbing towers from old copier paper boxes. they
were excellent and the kitties loved them, too. Always weight the bottom
one with something, or secure it to a wall or both. Replace either of these
when they show signs of wear.
dixie
--

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The Defendant, and the Truth. It is my job to be the Advocate for the
Truth.
 Dixie La Pierre

Isn't the ink in newspaper and other printed paper harmful to a rabbit? I
would think so.

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We took photocopy paper boxes, turned them upside down, and cut
holes in each end, thus forming "bunny tunnels" which we place
throughout the house.  Rabbit E. Lee runs from room to room, and
if she misses one of the boxes, she'll reverse course and go
through it, before proceeding forward.

She also lies in them sometimes--nesting instinct I guess.

Great toys!

BRIAN

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The highest calling for a man is to do his duty.  He can do no
more.  He should never wish to do any less.  R.E. Lee

A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my bunnies had lost a patch of
fur on her back.  Our vet took a skin scraping and he says the results
indicate ringworm.  The vet has given us some medicated shampoo and has
instructed us to bathe both rabbits once a week for six weeks using the
shampoo.  I can't find any information about ringworm in rabbits and
furthermore, I have heard that it is dangerous to bathe rabbits.  Can
anyone tell me whether the diagnosis and treatment sound correct? I'd
like to get a second opinion before my buns take the plunge.

 The bell balls are good (I have the metal ball) and I've also got a
metal slinky, a metal canning jar ring, lots of cardboard (boxes and
tubes ).
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Bunmom

: A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my bunnies had lost a patch of
: fur on her back.  Our vet took a skin scraping and he says the results
: indicate ringworm.  The vet has given us some medicated shampoo and has
: instructed us to bathe both rabbits once a week for six weeks using the
: shampoo.  I can't find any information about ringworm in rabbits and
: furthermore, I have heard that it is dangerous to bathe rabbits.  Can
: anyone tell me whether the diagnosis and treatment sound correct? I'd
: like to get a second opinion before my buns take the plunge.

Ringworm is a fungus, closely related to the fungus that causes athlete's
foot. I've never heard of it bing treated with a shampoo, but I suppose
that  it may be OK. I'd suggest that you repost to alt.med.veterinary and
include the particular shampoo and its active ingredients. Perhaps your
vet isn't aware of other treatments that might be less stressful on both
you and the buns.

Lynn
-- L D Bandura    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Rob S.

ring worm  wouldnt be my first  idea..   skin mits ..... if there is fur
missing and a dandruff like flake on it----mites is the answer --- get a Q
tip and dip it in  some cooking oil  and rub it into the patch ----- that
will kill the mits .... fur will return in couple of weeks

says...

nicole