Homemade Rabbit Toys
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I'm picking up two rabbits tomorrow. I'm a newbie to bunny care, although I have been doing tonnes of research, since I just knew that the advice Pets at Home gave would be completely wrong.
Anyhow I have been having a lot of fun trawling charity shops and pound shops for items that I can craft bunny toys out of. I don't really want to buy any purpose-made rabbit toys because it seems so much more fun and engaging to make my own, or to buy things that aren't meant to be rabbit toys but which can be adapted for that use.
Other bunny keepers: which toys do your rabbits like the most? What have you made at home that they love?
So far I have:
- a plastic sippy cup for them to roll around, I can also put some veggies or hay in it
- a few squares of carpet for them to chew or dig
- a large plastic punch bowl that will be ideal for burrowing. I will fill it with shredded paper.
- some cardboard tubes from kitchen roll/toilet paper
- a small tennis-type ball
- a dog chew toy
- a book for them to shred (Dannii Minogue's biography - millions of them in the 99p store)
- an old wooden chopping board for gnawing
I'm planning to go to the local hospice shop in the morning, they always have children's toys that will be great for the bunnies.
Please share your toy ideas
Anyhow I have been having a lot of fun trawling charity shops and pound shops for items that I can craft bunny toys out of. I don't really want to buy any purpose-made rabbit toys because it seems so much more fun and engaging to make my own, or to buy things that aren't meant to be rabbit toys but which can be adapted for that use.
Other bunny keepers: which toys do your rabbits like the most? What have you made at home that they love?
So far I have:
- a plastic sippy cup for them to roll around, I can also put some veggies or hay in it
- a few squares of carpet for them to chew or dig
- a large plastic punch bowl that will be ideal for burrowing. I will fill it with shredded paper.
- some cardboard tubes from kitchen roll/toilet paper
- a small tennis-type ball
- a dog chew toy
- a book for them to shred (Dannii Minogue's biography - millions of them in the 99p store)
- an old wooden chopping board for gnawing
I'm planning to go to the local hospice shop in the morning, they always have children's toys that will be great for the bunnies.
Please share your toy ideas
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just me then...
yes :eek:
Haha
I really did not think it could be taken a different way!
it's actually for dogs, a piece of a large bamboo plant with a hole in it which you fill with the dogs food, or in this case, the rabbits wagg.
you can make the same thing with a pop bottle with holes cut in it
a paper bag stuffed with hay and perhaps with a bit of either pellet food or some veggies in it always goes down a treat with mine too,
i give them odd off cuts of wood as well, which they like to gnaw (saves the hutches too!)
He also had a ball he used to chase around the run with
Just a few hours until I bring the boys home, I'm very excited