Guest Blogger: Suzanne Denk, Animal Enrichment Specialist
Here are roughly swell ideas to continue your hopper happy as well as mentally stimulated. Enrichment isn't but all fun as well as games! Keeping your rabbit's hear working is an of import business office of owning a rabbit.
• Hide treats or hay inwards a cardboard egg carton
• Weave paper strips or sisal through the bars of his pen
• Make a tunnel amongst a cardboard box past times cutting off the ends
• Free shape arts and crafts paper or paper into a tunnel. Roll edges of tunnel to secure.
• Fill a paper dejeuner handbag amongst hay
• Give a minor towel for bunching as well as tossing
• Read a story to your rabbit
• Toilet paper tubes amongst fringed edges are fun to toss as well as tear
• Make a paper fan as well as clip to the bars of his pen
• Make a pellet pierogi: Using the paper liner from the timothy pellet bag, cutting a circle from dark-brown arts and crafts paper or newspaper. Fold the circle inwards half. Place pellets, hay, or a process along the fold. Roll the edges of the paper to seal as well as shape a pierogi.
• Challenge him amongst a puzzle feeder. Puzzles are non but for dogs & cats!
• Give your rabbit a minor sandbox filled amongst a deep layer of shredded paper for digging.
• Provide balls amongst bells, infant primal rings, a plastic slinky, or wooden blocks. Rotate toys regularly to continue them novel as well as interesting.
Foraging game: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rabbit inwards the wild must hunt for his food. This piffling game volition encourage a rabbit to practise field searching, sniff to follow the trail, as well as intend to detect the treat. Stimulating the olfactory feel stimulates the brain.
• Show the rabbit the process therefore enshroud it: inwards your hand, nether your leg, behind a toy. Let them sniff out the treat.
• Make a trail of fresh greens across the room, hiding roughly of the pieces. You may purpose a Romaine lettuce leaf, parsley leaves, or a few pinches of dry out organic botanicals.
• If the bunny makes quick operate of the trail, y'all tin lead maintain 1 leafage as well as piece of cake drag it along the flooring to travel out behind its smell. Hide the process at the terminate of the trouble as well as run across if the rabbit volition purpose its olfactory organ to follow the treat. Too easy? Hide the process inwards a paper dejeuner bag.
Enrichment activities…
• Reduce stress
• End boredom
• Give the chance for the pet to intend as well as purpose his mind
• Direct a pet’s loose energy to appropriate activities
• Provide a lead a chance for the pet to purpose all of the senses
• Improve lineament of life amongst multifariousness as well as mental stimulation
• Benefit physical as well as behavioral health
• Build confidence
• Only lead maintain a few minutes each day
• Are fun for people as well as pets!
Note: Always supervise your pet therefore y'all know he tin play safely amongst a novel item!
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