Anyone share their bedroom with their bun?

[bunnymomz]

So after a week of sharing my bedroom with Rosie I’ve decided one of us had to go. It just wasn’t going to work. I also realized we have a lot in common too. For one thing Rosie does’nt sit still at night she stays busy, I don’t either during the day. Rosie is always

rearranging her furniture at night, me at least once a month during the day. She doesn’t like her stuff being messed with, neither do IW.

We both do look a mess in the mornings, hair is everywhere.

She drinks heavy at night, me well…………once in awhile I may too, lol.

She gets on that water bottle and it’s like never ending, ugh it drives me crazy, lol.

Now that she’s moved to the living room things seem to be going better for us.

That’s my girl though

[Binx86]

My fiance and I share the bedroom with our boys. Though our arrangement is a bit more harmonious than yours! But yours sounds like it there would never be a dull moment!

We kind of have a set up where they have a ramp to come up on my side of the bed, they can run across, off his side onto the top of their cage and then a ramp down under my computer desk. They come up and sometimes sleep at the head of the bed when we sleep, even sometimes on our pillows beside our heads, and I’ve even woken up with on hunkered down on my back. He got annoyed when I wanted to get up because he didn’t feel like moving. At first the water bottle was an issue for us, but after one of the boys shunned the bottle we got them a set of ceramic bowls on a little holder, so no more annoying bottle noise! And on the rare occasion we get binkied upon, but they’re usually polite and go out into the living room in the middle of the night for running around.

I’m sure the separation was best for both of you though!

[bunnymomz]

Aww that sounds like a cool set up. Yes, i guess I could get a bowl for her water instead. She sure is a busy bunny at night. Then I’d get up in the mornings and there she’d be all stretched out sleeping good

[RabbitPam]

I couldn’t sleep in the same room with my bunnies due to the noise either.
It’s not bad to kiss them goodnight in their habitat and go to bed elsewhere. A rested slave is a good slave.

[CinnabunMom]

Cinnabun sleeps in the room next to mine. But that doesn’t prevent her from waking me up every morning at 5:30 (seriously, every morning…). She has this new game where she likes to take a corner of her litter box in her mouth and sort of fling it across the Xpen. When it hits the bars of the pen, I can hear it in the next room and I know it’s time to get up and let her out of the pen for about half and hour, in which we lay on the couch together and I give her rubs while she sleeps (spoiled). Then she goes back into the pen for about another hour while I sleep and then she wakes me up again digging at her box so I know it’s time for breakfast.

[Sarita]

Well Bobby has free roam so he can come and go in my room, but I would never have a rabbit habitat in my room. My seniors have their own rooms where they stay and I would not be able to stay with them in my room.

[FrankieFlash]

Bunjamin’s stayed in our room since the day we got him. There were rough times like when he discovered chewing on his first cage and rattling it got our attention but now with the condo we’re all happy. He’s got a water bowl. Occasionally he’ll have a night fright that wakes us up but nothing serious. I like him being in here with us. And when we stay at my parents he is in a different room than us for sleeping and Andy will try to set up a bed in there with him bc he doesn’t like sleeping without bunjamin. lol. Silly boy.

I don’t think its for everyone though. Bunjamin does his re-arranging after his breakfast so he rarely wakes us up with those noises. It’s interesting though if one of us wakes up before the other we give bunjmain his breakfast and let him out and he’ll do his re-arranging and sometimes he decides its time for the other slave to stop sleeping and he’ll jump all over me or Andy. It’s cute. (I learned how to sleep through it).

Oh and we initially had to put his cage/condo in our room because my dad who lives with us thought he was allergic. Surprise, surprise- he’s not. We’re all just allergic to Timothy Hay.

[bunnymomz]

Well i appreciate hearing all of your stories. I thought it would be a great idea but turns out it wasn’t and i was feeling a little bad about it even though i knew it would be for the best.

[Sonn]

I share my bedroom with my boys kind of. They have a bunny room but it is always open and leads to my bedroom. I am lucky that neither of them make any noise at night other than Dini occasionally ripping up a box.

[FluffyBunny]

Our bunny room is actually attached to my bed room. There’s a door between the rooms, though. I still wake up to “bunny sounds” (usually crashing/thumping noises from Ms. Rabbit’s latest adventure). Unfortunately, there’s no AC in the bunny room, so I’ve had to be creative keeping their room cool. I bunny-proofed my room and started leaving the door to their room open during hot days. I never let them in my room at night…I’d be too afraid of waking up with a sea of agouti in front of me.

[LoveChaCha]

Since I live in an apartment, I have rabbit proofed the place, along with my bedroom. I even have a litter box for Chacha in my bedroom. It is no longer my room, but her room now, lol.

During the night, she’ll do bunny 500’s, and I can hear her do binkies on her blanket. She also likes to play in plastic bags. She likes to push the bags around. In the early morning, she’ll sometimes jump on my bed and give me ‘the look.’ She’ll literally raise her chin up at me like, “I OWN YOU.”

[IsabellaRobyn]

My bunny stays In my room and we seem to be doing fine. She wakes me up every morning by chewing and rattling the cage of the puppy pen (she gets put in at night times when I can’t watch her) between 7am and 8am so that I’ll feed her, then she goes back to sleep and I’m left too awake to do anything about it! I don’t mind though because the rest of the time we get along just fine

[bunnyfriend]

I share a room with two bunnies It’s good for me because I keep my room super clean now that I can’t leave anything out. The annoying part is they are both OBSESSIVE cardboard chewers and of course their favorite time to do this is about 3-5 in the morning. They also enjoy chasing each other around and scampering all over the place with their scratchy little feet. I agree with ChaCha, I call my room “the bunnies’ room” now because they have taken it over! It’s been working fine for almost a year now (though I didn’t always have two for that).

[Freyja]

Parsley lives in my room and its a constant bunny hurricane, I’m living at home at the moment whilst im studying so its really my only option, he’s definitly going to be a lounge room bunny when i move out at the end of the year! Ive gone through so many iphone chargers its ridiculous, its like he has a homing device to find them, I buy them in packs of 5 so many get eaten. Anything that i think is bunny proofed is not, he even moved a giant cement brick the other day to get under my bed…how he had the strength i will never know. I went to put my favourite leather boots on today and they had no laces and a giant hole on the plus side he is the best furry companion, i’m unwell at the moment with chronic fatigue syndrome and he always keeps me company bunny flopped on my bed or binkying up a storm. and he has the best sleeping habits! as soon as my lights out he goes to sleep and doesnt get up until i do, if i take too long to wake up he just sits on the floor and stares at me until i’m awake with this hilarious unamused expression on his face. And whenever i leave the room he sits at the see-through baby-gate and stares out forlornly until i return which is super adorable…but he is a total terror and the majority of my belongings have chews marks all over them, luckily for him he has my wrapped around his paw..

[Buzz]

It’s hilarious reading all your stories. At the beginning I had Watson, my rabbit, in my room as I wanted him as a house rabbit and we were trying to get him and the blind rabbit who owns the rest of the house to get along. By day my dear Watson would lie under the desk as I worked and lick my trousers; a perfect house guest, he litter trained himself and gave me no trouble. By night he would tear around, leaping on my with a thud (he’s a Flemish giant so that was a shock) and investigate all my facial orifices with his oh so tickly whiskers (a practice which I decided to call whiskering). I started off by ignoring him but that didn’t work, as he wasn’t asking for attention – he was just exploring the room. Then when he jumped off I started pushing him down straight away or wiggling about violently so he couldn’t stay on. That seemed to work for a couple of days but then he started jumping again full throttle. By then I couldn’t take it any more and put him in the bathroom. Flatmate said it was cruel as he’d get cold (even though he has fur and my room’s just as cold) so he had to come back in with me. In my head I devised a system of curtains to keep him off my bed, but I have not implemented this. I bought Watson a cushion to sleep on and for some reason this eased my flatmate’s concerns (though it may just have been that Watson bit him). Then by day, Watson was in my room (though I had to walk him a lot to keep the ants out of his pants – this bedroom is too small for him) and by night he’d destroy the bathroom (every morning was like walking into zero gravity).

I could sleep with him if he would sleep at night. Rabbits, amazing creatures that they are, can change their circadian rhythms depending on when the predators are out. If there are no predators, rabbits will be active at all hours. If the predators are nocturnal, they will sleep at night. If the predators are diurnal, the rabbits will be nocturnal. My flatmate pointed that study at me and I suggested that she come in the middle of the night, whenever she got up, and burst into my room and pursue Watson for a brief period. That way he would become diurnal. However she was not too enthusiastic and now when he has to live in the house due to bunny politics, he sleeps in the bathroom. I dream of a bunny that will sleep with me on my bed but it doesn’t look like that will happen any time soon.

[Bones]

Mine stay in my bedroom. I can’t fall asleep if I don’t have the animals making their little noises at night.

[Jenna, Chubs & Comet]

I had given my boys free roam of my apartment but…then I moved and got roommates and one of them isn’t to keen on the bunnies (I agree, he’s crazy!) so they mostly stay in my bedroom at my new place, which is thankfully, pretty big. Mostly they are pretty easy to live with, and it helps that I’m a heavy sleeper. Occasionally, I don’t get up early enough for breakfast and they jump on the bed and run around to wake me up. Most days, I just wake up to my alarm and finding them sitting beside the bed staring at me like yep…it’s time to eat!! lol

[Beka27]

My room is MY ROOM (well… and my husband’s…). Bunnies don’t sleep in my room, neither does my child. I couldn’t deal with having them in the room with me. As it is, they are penned about 30 feet away and I can still hear them.

[tanlover14]

Mine definitely do NOT share a room with my boyfriend and I either… LOL. The bedroom is off bunny limits. When we first got them, we have a friend who stays over sometimes on the weekend when we’ll all go out and rather than drive home we’ll have him sleep at our place in the living room on one of our air mattresses. Since that’s where our bunny brats live, we didn’t feel comfortable having them out there with him (since he doesn’t really respect our rules for him although we made a NEW rule for him that if he touches the bunnies without permission or when we’re not around then he’s instantly kicked out and not allowed back) and so anyways, we brought them in with us. Such a big mistake. We couldn’t sleep at ALL with all the rummaging they did around. So they’ve been kicked out of the bedroom for sure.

I can’t believe how many people let their buns on their bed when they sleep! I’d be so scared of squishing them even though I want to do it soooooo bad (sleep with them, not squish them). Although, I guess, being a bunny slave if I did something they didn’t like.. I’m sure I’d hear about it. Or feel it when they chomped my face off.

[LoveChaCha]

TanLover – Hahah. it is amazing that even in a dead sleep, I can feel Chacha bun hop onto the bed. She likes to mess in my blankets, so I don’t move (and because I’m in a dead of sleep).

[tanlover14]

Sooo cute. I love herrrrr. Such a diva. I got the idea for craisins from you! To use as treats… and totally used your having ChaCha take them out of your teeth trick! They give me a bunny kiss and then carefully take it out, it’s so cute! And it’s actually helped my really skittish bun to get closer to me! Even she will take them out of my mouth now!

[FrankieFlash]

I think even in my sleep I feel the bunny presence. But I only do it during naptimes or if Andy is awake and in the room too. Not at night and in the dark. I have the fear of rolling over or kicking him too. BUT I swear every time he gets on the bed when I’m sleeping I feel it. I even know what side of me he’s on and where. Sometimes I pet him in my sleep. It’s cute to wake up to a bunny in your face every now and then too

[Silly Sungura]

Hodari shares her room with DH and me. Our bed is in there because before we got her it was our room; but our house is small and our room is really the only place for her. She spent a lot of time playing on our bed when she was little, so she has this idea that it is very, very far away from the floor. She stands up next to it, stretching to her full height, which is pretty much the height of the bed, but she doesn’t seem to realize that she is bigger now and can certainly get up there by herself. If I want to keep her off the bed, all I have to do is not sit on the floor beside it, because I am the only “object” she uses like a staircase. I try to be careful not to fall asleep on the floor, though, for fear of accidentally hurting her.

[Freyja]

Parsley sleeps on my desk so he has full view of ‘his’ domain and i usually wake up to him staring at me lol, i think he only sleeps there so hes higher than me and can check out what im up to lol

[BunBunMommy]

I share my room with my rabbit Bun Bun. He can be nosy at times but I just let him go. The worst he does is rattle his cage which the house calls “playing prisoner” but he is almost never in his cage. We live side by side. 

[Emmie]

Thane Train now has complete free roam of my room. He’s quiet most of the time, but wakes me at around 7 by chewing on the wall!! Crazy bun! I would love to have him on my bed, but he marks everything with pee. I’ll wait a few weeks (he’s just had THE op) and then let him cuddle me.[code] [/code]

[Mimzy]

I’ve shared a room with Mimzy since the day I got her! But I kind of have to since I live with my parents, brother, and 2 dogs that run the rest of the house! I share a room with my parrot, who’s cage is kept in the closet that has no door so he’s still basically right the in the room! I love how his cage fits just right in it he’s the only thing I use the closet for really.
And a turtle tank…then Mimzy takes up the majority with her big playpen but since I’m keeping her instead of just fostering, I’m building her a condo soon! Which will create even more space in my room for her to run so I’m excited about that.

Right now she just has a 2×2 nic cage that is a 2 story (she goes in at night just for safety reason since she’s a little escape artist )
Inside of a 4×6 playpen. She used to wake me up around 5 or 6am by chewing the bars but she’s stopped that thankfully! Now she actually waits quietly until mom wakes up to let her out I have the most problems with my parrot…he gets really impatient to be let out! Lol

[Kayle]

I’ve also shared a room with Felix since I got him. He’s actually a quite bunny. He stays in his x-pen during the night and whenever I’m not home during the day. He does wake me up at about 5:30-6am by playing with his bell toy to let me know he wants out! I usually let him out for about 15-20 min and he goes back in to sleep. He doesn’t make much sound during the night ^_^ just the sound of him munching on hay.

My room is very small though XD I’m hoping that soon he can move into our finished basement to have that all on his own. It has to be cleaned out. We have all our extra stuff there. But hopefully by the end of summer Felix will have his own room!

[Mimzy]

Ringing the bell sounds cute! Like ringing a bell for service at a store haha.
I would love to have a bunny room! I’ve had my bird for half my life and basically have always had a dog, but after getting Mimzy I feel like I should have had a bunny all this time xD Of course, I love my bird and would never part with him<3

But I just want to get Mimzy everything now, I hope once I move out, maybe the place I get will have a room or basement for her There’s no basement in my house, just an attic =/

[bellemarie]

I share my bedroom with Peter. He could never free roam – my kitten would chase him around and my dog would try to eat his poops. He also is a terrible chewer. Even when I think everything’s bunny-proofed, it’s not…:/ There are just too many places for him to get into trouble in my house, but I wish he could free roam. my parents would never let me haha! He has a big dog pen attached to about a 5 ft pen. He goes in there when I sleep and when I’m not home. When I’m home, he can run around my room and jump on the bed to his contentment. Whenever I walk in my room, I usually find him on the top of all my pillows on my bed – he wants the best view. He’s usually pretty quiet at night. He just eats, drinks, and sleeps. Once and a while he’ll move his litterbox around, attempt some bunny 500s in his pen, and just bash around making noise. I love having him there, though. I can’t imagine sleeping without and animal in my room. It makes it less lonely. I tried for a while to have him roam in my room at night, but too many litterbox mishaps and jumping on my head in the middle of the night stopped that!

[Amys Animals]

I share my bedroom with my two bunnies, Rascal and Valentine. Before I got Val, Rascal would bite at the x-pen alllll night long and make so much noise. It got annoying but there was nothing I could do because I can’t have them anywhere else because our dog. I love having bunnies in my bedroom though. Valentine likes to move her dishes on the piece of tile I have in there and it makes a LOUD clanging noise. That sometimes wakes me up and startles me. Rascal doesn’t bite the x-pen anymore and it’s mostly a comfortable time with them in there. The only changes I have to do in my room when they are out is unplug a plug that has a bunch of things attached to it and move it where they can’t get it. My other plugs/cords are all covered.

[Matthew]

Penny shares my room, and thankfully she’s not insanely noisy. Every now and then she’ll go on a midnight exploration her cage and knock something over, but she seems to be okay so far. It IS a bit soon to tell though, haha!

[Gary Fowler]

Yes I have four Bunnies that sleep in my room, they have their own room but at night when we are home from work they have the run of the upstairs, I have a question and I’m not sure how to post it,  My girls will occasionally  poop in my room or the hall,  but in their room where they have four potty trays they use the trays as well as the carpet, any ideas how to stop it when you can’t catch them doing it?

Gary

[Sarita]

Welcome Gary, you definitely want to post this in the behavior section – you will get more responses and you aren’t piggybacking it on someone else’s topic.

You will see a green button at the top that will say post topic and it will allow you to post with a simple subject in the subject line like” litter box training” and then ask your question or concerns in the body.

[Beccaberry]

Wolfie’s cage and x-pen takes up most of my room and she wakes me up every morning at around 5-7am ish by jumping everywhere and shaking the boxes … at least this way I get up for work one way or another even if I have had only 4 hours sleep :'( !!!

[Mimzy]

Beccaberry – I was having the same problem with my bunny wakin me up at 5! So I decided to cover her cage on the top and the side where the light mostly shines. Her door isn’t covered though. She’s staying quieter longer in he mornings. Maybe try that? Although I usually wake up at 8 or 9 and she’s gotten used to that schedule to where I don’t even have to cover her anymore

[kamdynandsunshinesmom]

I share my bedroom with my bunny and you eventually do get use to it. There were many nights when Sunshine kept me up all night. I would get up and pay attention to her even let her out a bit. Then someone on here told me just to ignore her because when I would pay attention to her she was getting use to that. Things are much better now. It does take time till you figure her out and she figures you out. Hope everything works out!

[floppybunny123]

beccaberry OMG  you have the cutest bunny pics EVER im so jelous i wish that i can shots like that with lilly whats your secret  

[bunnnnnnie!]

Zeus has always lived in my bedroom.  I can’t sleep without knowing he’s there, and like another previous poster said, hearing their little sounds at night helps me sleep.

He doesn’t make too much noise; and what noise he does make I don’t mind because it’s kind of a signal that all is well.  If I DIDN’T hear him digging, eating, flopping (10lb rabbit makes an audible ‘thud’ sound when he flops, LOL! ), drinking, etc, I’d think there’s something wrong.  But I’m also a total paranoid worrywort when it comes to my animals. .

As for the morning time, Zeus is usually pretty content to get up when I do, which is around 6am.  If I want to sleep in, or he has a random day where he gets up at 5 or 530am, he’ll grab the side of his cage and rattle it, or throw his toys into the side of his cage.  But he really doesn’t do that very often.

I used to have a job with terrible hours.  One day I’d work 1pm-10pm, the next 5am-1pm.  My main lightbulb moment alerting me it was time for a new job?  I was getting up at 4am, and it was TOO EARLY for my crepescular rabbit.  The animals that are designed to be active dawn and dusk, and I was waking up too early for the dawn-loving bunny.  4am wake up and he’d give me the dirtiest looks ever, LOL.  

I also like having him in the same room as me for sleeping and night time because Zeus and I have traveled quite a lot.  He’s been to at least 6 or 7 different houses the past year or two, all totally different bunny setups.  So I figure the “constant” of always having me around at night would help him settle faster.

[FooFoosMommy2]

Foo shares our bedroom with us, and our fish tank. Things go well, except for when she wants up on the bed because she always pees on the bed. She seems to like sitting and watching the shark in the fish tank, she’ll just sit and stare at the tank. In the morning, if I don’t get up when the alarm goes off or I hit snooze, she will throw her water bottle around and stomp to wake me up. She doesn’t always want to eat right away, she just wants me up and out of bed. My fiance has to be up before me everyday, and she doesn’t do it with him, but I have to get up to pay attention to her. She likes digging through our dirty clothes too and tries to steal tshirts to make a nest out of. How she does this, we haven’t figured out because you’d think we’d notice a bunny dragging a shirt across the floor, but Ryan keeps finding this worn tshirts under the chairs and in corners.

[Beccaberry]

Mimzy – Haha I feel bad putting something over the cage =( Yesterday I woke up at 2am and let her run around like a mad man she eventually wore herself out and flopped in her cage I shut it and went to bed and didn’t wake up until 8am but she was proper hyper again. I can’t wait till i litter train her fully but then I guess it would be worse her jumping around EVERYWHERE O.O

Lillydahungrybunny – Haha I dunno sometimes she just sits there looking like shes a badman and stares. I think she’s sleeping?

[Mimzy]

I know what you mean about covering her I only cover the side the sun comes through so she can still see. But she got used to waking at 8 or 9 now so I don’t have to cover her anymore

[Jordain]

I kept Murray in my room for about a week. I tried to keep him caged in his big dog crate at first because a lot of my friends with bunnys suggest locking the buns up at night for their own safety but it did not work for Murray, he gets upset if he feels confined. Then I added an xpen to the dog crate but he still hated the “cage.” The rest of the week I ended up being the one in the cage (I had an xpen set up around my bed) but he still managed to get in when he really wanted to. I’m a heavy sleeper so it didnt bother me too much while I was asleep but Murray gets pretty crazy from 8-12 at night and will act like a crazy bunny boy digging at the walls of my room so falling asleep got very difficult. Plus the hay, litter box and the fur in the bedroom isn’t my favorite since im a neat freak I spent most of my days obsessively cleaning and emptying out his litter box everytime he went to the bathroom. Having him in my bedroom was nice since we spent a lot of time together but it wasn’t good for my sanity and was definitely turning murray into a spoiled brat. Now that he is farther away from my room we both get our rest and he seems to be getting along perfectly well.

[Jordain]

I kept Murray in my room for about a week. I tried to keep him caged in his big dog crate at first because a lot of my friends with bunnys suggest locking the buns up at night for their own safety but it did not work for Murray, he gets upset if he feels confined. Then I added an xpen to the dog crate but he still hated the “cage.” The rest of the week I ended up being the one in the cage (I had an xpen set up around my bed) but he still managed to get in when he really wanted to. I’m a heavy sleeper so it didnt bother me too much while I was asleep but Murray gets pretty crazy from 8-12 at night and will act like a crazy bunny boy digging at the walls of my room so falling asleep got very difficult. Plus the hay, litter box and the fur in the bedroom isn’t my favorite since im a neat freak I spent most of my days obsessively cleaning and emptying out his litter box everytime he went to the bathroom. Having him in my bedroom was nice since we spent a lot of time together but it wasn’t good for my sanity and was definitely turning murray into a spoiled brat. Now that he is farther away from my room we both get our rest and he seems to be getting along perfectly well.

[justwildbeat]

I can’t share my bedroom with Yeti because it’s like the princess and the pea problem.

He was temporarily in my room while I worked on setting up his permanent cage elsewhere. Also I thought it’d be good way for him to get used to me since I had just got him. He was never noisy, like tossing bowls or rattling the cage. I’m just a light sleeper and could hear him munching on hay/pellets and drinking water in my sleep. So it felt like I was half asleep the entire night and I’d wake up feeling tired in the morning.

Now he’s in my living room where he can do as he pleases and I can sleep easier lol.

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