No scissors necessary this time, you just need a cardboard toilet or kitchen roll tube and some tasty hay. You can also optionally add a little of your rabbit’s dry food or some vegetables. I guess fresh grass would work well too but it’s still a bit early in the year for that to be sprouting much.
Here’s what you do…
Start with a toilet roll or kitchen roll cardboard inner tube
Push the edge of the cardboard tube with your thumbs until it folds inwards.
It should look like this!
Rotate the tube and do the same to the opposite side to block the end.
Add your choosen filling.
Push in the sides as you did with the first end to seal it up
Finally give the hay parcel to you bunny. I made a slight technical error at this point, I gave Scamp the hay parcel and then found the camera batteries had gone flat. There was just a few wisps of hay left once they had charged so you’ll have to imagine the photo of him eating it or perhaps you could email me one of your bunny having fun with cardboard tubes? I’d love to see them.
I mentioned at Christmas time that Scamp got some tunnels. They are great entertainment for him when he’s out exercising. He only uses them when supervised as I’m sure he’s shred them left to his own devices. This has the side benefit they they stay new and exciting as he doesn’t get them every day or he gets part of them in different combinations.
The tunnels fold up to the size of a plate for storage and pop out to 3′ long.
They have a hole half way down which means you can velcro them together into t-junctions or have one really long tunnel. And, not only does Scamp have tunnels, my mum found a pop up cube which they fit into which gives even more combinations!
Scamp has great fun poping up and down the tunnels:
I hope everyone is having a good Christmas. Scamp got a little bit spoiled, especially as I have no idea how such a little toe-rag didn’t end up on Santa’s naughty list. Here are his goodies:
There was rather nice wood and carrot hanging chew too but he ate it before I took the picture. He has some long pop up tunnels to use whilst he’s out exercising. I haven’t popped them all up yet but so far he’s enjoying playing, race through the tunnel, poke the nearest pair of ankles and dash back through so no one can tell it was you.
Scamp poking his head out.
He has a new ‘doormat’ as he eaten the old one. This time it’s made out of bunny approved materials (seagrass) which I’m sure he’ll test thoroughly.
I don't know what happened. It was like this when I found it, honest.
Not 100% sure about this.
It feels funny on my toes
I'm not eating it. I'm just touching it with my teeth.
No, I haven’t turfed Scamp outside in the cold. Not that I think he’d mind but I don’t fancy playing catch the rabbit in wellies. Instead I brought the snow to Scamp. I emptied out his digging box (usually filled with paper) and filled it with snow instead. I did the same thing last year and I think he remembered it because he was straight in and digging as soon as I put it down and had half the snow across the floor by the time I got the camera on.
It’s great enrichment for him and snow is great for digging. It’s slightly less messy that soil, though in hindsight perhaps a towel underneath would be a good idea. I didn’t think he’d get quite so energetic about throwing the snow around!
Here’s a video…
And some photos…
Of course after all the digging he needed a cuddle to dry his toes off. Actually, rabbit’s fur is pretty amazing stuff. All that mucking about in the snow and his toes, and the rest of him, weren’t cold at all.
We’re having a brief break in toilet tubes toys whilst we restock! Instead I’ve been writing about feeding bunnies. I originally intended to use this website to write about rabbit housing but it’s hard to write about one thing without relating to another. So I’ve added a section on diet & nutrition. I’ve got the basics added, just need to add a little more detail and some more pictures. Here are some of the new pages if you’d like to take a look:
