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- From: njl@druhi.ATT.COM (Nancy J. LaRoche)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets
- Subject: Re: Rabbit worry
- Summary: Fun with the bun
- Message-ID: <22571@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:22:36 GMT
- References: <BxvnDr.Ho4@world.std.com> <22496@drutx.ATT.COM> <1992Nov19.052616.21569@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov19.052616.21569@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) writes:
- > Meanwhile, my Big Wig, the big bundle of bun, sure knows how to play:
-
- Obviously, he has responded to your own playfulness and all the attention
- you give him. I suspect that the real clue to getting bunnies to play is
- to give them LOTS of the kind of attention that they like (i.e., avoiding
- picking them up, which most of them hate, at least after about the age of
- six months). After they have developed confidence and trust and come to
- see you as the giver of good things, playing tag, running circles, etc. may
- be spontaneous or encouraged by being playful yourself.
-
- One of my volunteers has a pair of rabbits, one of which LOVES to climb
- onto a platform they made for him and toss his Mason jar rings onto the
- floor. They pile them back up on the platform and he tosses them over
- again, leaning over the edge and watching each one until it stops rolling
- or whatever. His mate will imitate this behavior if people start making
- over him a lot (jealousy as a motivator...)
-
- Nancy LaRoche (HRS)
- att!longs!njl
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