Is a lazy bunny normal?

[KodaBear]

Hi everyone, my 3 year old mixed breed rabbit was neutered this summer and his personality has changed quite a bit after calming down. Koda is usually flopped right over asleep when I come home. When I com back up later he is stretched out but even when I open the cage door it isn’t often that he actually comes up. If I step in to pet him he doesn’t move and just stretches out more. He’s very sweet but doesn’t seem interested in leaving his cage? I’ll leave the door open when I’m studying but he only will hop out for a bit before returning. He does have spurts of energy in his cage where he goes nuts though.

His cage is a puppy exercise pen with a wood base. He’s litterbox trained, eats his hay and pellets fine (and drinks his water), and has shelter and a few toys.

The only time I can get a reaction out of him is when I crinkle his treat bag and ask if he wants one.. he’ll go nuts and grab it then return to sleeping.

[StachesMommy]

Hmmm, I’ve never had a young bunny until recently. I’ve had a Dutch mix years ago who was around the age of your bunny and she was super lazy. She just preferred to cuddle or snooze. She only really ran around early mornings then she would flop around everywhere or stay around her area. Could it be the age? I have a young bunny now and he is so…. just into everything. He is asleep and silent during the day time though. I call it his vampire slumber, lol. Maybe letting him out of his cage when he has his spurts of energy will work?

[Mikey]

Male buns usually become a bit more lazy after they are neutered, which is why they tend to gain weight a little easier than they did before their neuter. If you want to get him to exercise more, you can buy or make him some toys and/or make some play sets for him out of boxes. You can use treats as motivation to get him to play

[LBJ10]

Bunnies can be very lazy. LOL

[Sr. Melangell]

Posted By LBJ10 on 3/09/2016 7:05 PM

Bunnies can be very lazy. LOL

Lol Don’t you mean busy, as in Busy being lazy?

[Sr. Melangell]

Nia who was my Cashmere lop (EX Show rabbit I adopted) was very lazy, but I think it was because she was brought up to sit and look pretty, she never threw binkies or run about, but when my step father got the camera out that was it she used to groom herself and start posing, maybe your bunny has grown up, bunnies do calm down after a while, Olly can get very lazy, so I get in his pen and encourage him to play by moving his cardboard boxes, so he shakes and throws them, does bunny have any boxes to throw?

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