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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A How faster do baby bunnies (3 month old) grow?

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    • Thekillergreece
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        In comparison to dogs and cats, how faster do bunnies grow? As some know, I adopted a new bunny who is 3 month old, extremely cute, sometimes silly as well and would always lay flat when resting and/or sleeping, something which my previous bunny who passed away never did that.

        So I was wondering, at which age do they uhm.. Become more intelligent, brain gets developed or sort of? For example, the dogs are recommended to be trained around 6 months old because prior that age, their brain are not fully developed so I was wondering how about the bunnies? She often does a lot REPETITIVE mistakes that I tell her it’s mistake but she won’t understand and repeat the same mistakes.

        Any idea?


      • BunnyFriends
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          Well, physically it depends on the bunny. Mentally, there is and isn’t something growth. She isn’t suddenly going to learn from those mistakes because she’s older. You just need to teach her.

          What I’m saying is, she’s going to learn just as well now about these mistakes as she will in a few years.


        • Wick & Fable
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            You may want to re-assess and make sure your idea of “correcting/acknowledging” her mistake is a method where it’s obvious for her that you’re doing so… if that makes sense.

            For example, Wick didn’t understand that he could jump off the sofa onto the rug in front of it; he always just crouch hesitantly at the sofa side, eyeing to jump down on the slippery hardwood. At first, I’d just lift him up and plop him on the rug, but I realized that wasn’t really making it click for him. Alternatively, I’d call him to the rug-side of the sofa, then grab him and lift him in place a little (like he was hopping off). I’d then slowly make his body go through the arc if he’d actually jump off on the rug (like a regular person would, dumbie). While I’m doing the arc, I make sure he’s looking at the ground, not me.

            Another example is litterbox habits. It’s not very effective and intuitive to correct your rabbit (bringing it to the litterbox/transferring poos/pees into the litterbox) more than a couple dozen seconds have passed since the accident. Your rabbit’s mind is already on something else, so anything you do correction wise, it’s not gonna associate with its accident on the floor. Be diligent, and persistent!

            And lastly, a small story: Someone’s dog would always knock down and eat the trash can when they’d leave the house. There was no way to punish the dog when he did it, and punishing him once they got home made no sense because the dog wouldn’t know why he was being punished. The only option would be to stage a house exit, hide in the kitchen closet, wait for the dog to do it, and then spring out of the closet and punish him in the act; …. that’s crazy, and more effort than it’s worth, so the best method in this story was to put the trash can in a closet when leaving the house. Without the item there, the tendency to do it faded, and the dog was fine. … moral of the story: some mistakes may be really wired into your rabbit, so if it’s easier to prevent that mistake from happening in the first place, do that. My application would be using boards to block off my audio equipment because Wick would always jump on it and my goodness if he pee’d in the exhaust vent on top…. I would not be happy.

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          • sarahthegemini
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              Well, how are you telling her it’s a mistake?


            • Azerane
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                Training can be implemented even from a young age. In fact, younger animals tend to learn faster than older animals. Training a dog at 6 months is in my opinion leaving the training far too late, even around 8 weeks puppies can learn a number of commands.

                With animals, a lot of what they learn is through trial and error, however if they’re not understanding that something that they’re doing is the wrong thing, they’re not going to stop doing it. I second the question, how are you letting her know that she’s making a mistake? Are you reinforcing her when she does it the correct way, or training her to help her learn the correct way?


              • Thekillergreece
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                  When I see her doing a mistake for example chewing the carpet, books and all that, I simple pat her head gently and say “no” two to three times and I let her go do whatever else she wants. Is that good?


                • Wick & Fable
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                    Rabbits will not understand no as a command or negative phrase until you associate with an active, adverse behavior. Patting on the head could actually be seen as a praise, so instead of patting, you should forcefully move your rabbit away from the carpet, books, etc. while clearly stating “No!”

                    As of right now, it seems like you’re actually praising those bad behaviors. It’s still early on, so nothing is permanent, just be consistent from now on.

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                  • sarahthegemini
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                      She’s never going to understand that. Bunnies don’t speak human lol. You could try the rattle/coins-in-a-jar method. I had partial success with that. Shake a glass jar of coins every time she does the unwanted behaviour.


                    • Thekillergreece
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                        Okay! I will try do that, thanks for the advices


                      • Thekillergreece
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                          Okay! I will try do that, thanks for the advices

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