Guest Blogger: Laureen Dzadovsky
Originally published inward a Chicago House Rabbit Society newsletter
Rabbits are quite fascinating. As nosotros larn to a greater extent than most them, nosotros notice ways to enrich their lives equally good equally enriching our own. Bunnies response really good to positive reinforcement - typically inward the cast of treats although your rabbit powerfulness response to beingness petted, pellets, lettuce or another type of treat. You may conduct keep heard it said that bunnies ask playtime non entirely for the physical practice but equally good for mental exercise. Another agency to practice their minds is through behaviour preparation (aka clicker training) to challenge as well as get them. Spending fourth dimension amongst your bunny spell working on behaviour preparation tin sack endure a wonderful bonding sense for yous both.
Behavior preparation tin sack accept on many forms as well as tin sack endure geared towards your bunny’s personality. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 really active rabbit powerfulness create good amongst jumping on as well as off a box or dorsum as well as forth over a jump. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to a greater extent than timid rabbit may response good to a desensitization type of preparation where yous would role the preparation to acquire your rabbit used to beingness groomed or having his nails clipped or going inward as well as out of the carrier.
I conduct keep begun the procedure of preparation my bunny to assist him out of his comfort zone as well as acquire him out playing a niggling more. It takes a combination of clicking as well as treating that is quick as well as requires unopen to coordination but afterward a few tries it tin sack endure simply similar mo nature. Since I’ve started working amongst him, he has decided to add together inward his ain extra behaviour (which I at in ane lawsuit brand certain he does fully earlier I plough over him his treat!) of turning inward two circles when I unopen his play surface area for the night. I await frontward to futurity preparation amongst him because it’s been such a rewarding sense for us both. And who knows, mayhap he’ll endure doing obstruction courses next!
There are as well as then many other aspects to behaviour preparation other than targeting. Bunnies tin sack recognize cues, they tin sack endure lured amongst a treat, they tin sack larn to discriminate betwixt objects as well as enough more. It simply takes a niggling time, a niggling patience as well as an involvement inward enriching your bunny’s life (as good equally your own!) to run into progress.
For to a greater extent than data most rabbit behaviour preparation visit:
www.clickerbunny.com
www.bunnytraining.com
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