Do rabbits shake themselves when dreaming?

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- 06/27/2016 at 12:41 PM
  Thekillergreece
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  I hope this is the right topic!
  
  My rabbit would often shake itself (Ears, the mouth, her body, her feet).
  
  I assume it’s because of her dreaming something. If her feet are briefly moving, I assume she is trying to run away from something in her dream. If her mouth is moving (Perhaps clicking teeth), I assume she’s eating something in her dream. And several more.
  
  Is that normal though?
- 06/27/2016 at 1:23 PM
  Bam
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  It is normal, but not all buns do it. It’s more common in dogs, they twitch and run and sometimes even whimper in their sleep.
  Buns can even snore
- 06/27/2016 at 1:39 PM
  Mikey
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  Thats so cute! My Blue is somewhat active in his dreams as well. His little toes will wiggle and his lips/mouth will twitch. He has nightmares on rare occasions where he wakes himself up by thumping which is cute but sad, so he gets all of the cuddles
- 06/27/2016 at 1:58 PM
  Autumn's Dad
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  it’s nothing to worry about and fairly common. Autumn always twitches and mumbles to herself when getting to sleep, at which point she begins to snore. She sometimes wakes herself up and has the look of what just happened!? on her face.
- 06/28/2016 at 6:02 PM
  flemishwhite
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  I was once sitting on the floor watching TV and Bunny laid beside me and I started gently petting/rubbing her shoulder. Eventually, while still rubbing her shoulder, I could see she was dreaming….her feet were twitching, her eyelids were fluttering. I decided to stop rubbing her since I thought I’d wake her up, so I took my hand off of her. In about 10 seconds she jumped up and slapped my leg with her front paws. Why?…well, because I think she though I was a bad bunny. While I was rubbing her shoulder, she could relax and go to deep sleep because I was supposed to be the watch bunny. It was my job to stay awake and watch for predators. When I stopped petting her, her bunny brain figured that I, the watch bunny, had also gone to sleep and wasn’t doing my job. So she immediately woke up and slapped me for being a bad bunny.
- 06/28/2016 at 6:18 PM
  cinnybun2015
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  Aww! That’s so sweet! I don’t think it’s anything to worry about really, buns sometimes poop in their sleep (it’s happened with Chom!) and he also twitches his paws occasionally, or flicks his ears.
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