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Forum BEHAVIOR Bunny up with the sun

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    • msarro
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        I was always under the impression that rabbits were mostly an afternoon/evening animal. So, can anyone explain why Layla gets up with the sun? I appreciate that she likes the light, I really do – but it’d be wonderful if I didn’t get a 5am wakeup call every morning for the past week.

        Anyone dealt with this? Any way to get her to wait a little while… until.. say… 5:15? Maybe even 6am? lol


      • Sarita
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          Well, you can get her on a routine too. I get up at 5am too but my rabbits aren’t really up yet. I do clean (vacuum, fresh water, feed) at that time and when I get home.

          Is the sun coming at at 5am where you are? They are considered crepsecular which means dawn and dusk but they can get on a routine as well.


        • msarro
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            Well fall is coming (the trees just started changing) so sunrise is going to start getting later. In about a month it should be closer to 6~6:30am. That would be perfectly acceptable. What’s the best way to really get her on a schedule?


          • GHbun
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              My rabbits were always dawn-and-dusk critters. They liked 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. And, nope, I never could budge their schedule. They stuck to it even when we moved across 3 time zones.


            • Sarita
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                Sounds like you have some stubborn rabbits Tamera :~)

                Is she up playing or what in the morning? Or does she want to be fed? I think if she’s playing you will just want to get he quiet toys overnight and put in her loud toys during the day. But don’t get up – just let he continue playing.


              • msarro
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                  I think she’s playing – she just makes a ton of noise. She’ll use that time of day to start digging into the corner of her cage, which is plastic and makes a ton of noise. She’ll also start tossing her rattle around, tearing up newspaper – anything she can do that makes noise it seems.


                • LittlePuffyTail
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                    Most rabbits copy the wild rabbits schedule of being most active at dusk and dawn. In the wild, this is the safest time to leave the burrow to graze and I think it’s sort of inbred in all rabbits to be most active and eat at these times. Not much you can do, although I know how it is to have 3 bunnies demanding food at 6:00 on a Sunday morning!


                  • MarkBun
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                      Maryann wakes me up every morning at 7:15 – give or take 5 minutes – so I never have to worry about oversleeping. The funny thing is that when daylight savings time came, she changed with it and the very next day, there she was, waking me up at 7:15 of the new time.


                    • MimzMum
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                        That Maryann is WAAAY too smart. 0_0

                        My three are usually up whenever that sun starts to lighten the horizon which, you can imagine in summer when we have almost 24 hr daylight, is AGONY. I used a dark curtain on the window and after a little while, they didn’t bother getting up till that curtain lifted.

                        Now that I have a lighter weight curtain, they are back to sending things flying around their pens as the dawn breaks. >.< And Mimzy used to like to get active in the middle of the night and drive me nuts with cage binkies or box throwing or nosily chomping/moving about/stomping around. ~_~


                      • Balefulregards
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                          I have huge empathy for your wish for sleep. Coco was the very same way -5:30 on the dot every morning. Digging. Throwing Things, Biting the cage….

                          Then we moved to free roam in the bedroom, and she sleeps next to my side of the bed on a rug. She certainly starts moving around when the sun comes up, but seems to refrain from jumping on my head until 7:30. She is overall much quieter.

                          I also give her the second part of her pellets at night and some fresh hay before I turn in – this way she can snack until the Salad Train (me) gets up at 7:30 a.m.

                          But on the flip side, the morning is when she binkies…and honestly – who would want to miss that?

                          I also got a full fledged Flop tonight – fully on her back with paws in the air. I have only seen the half/side flops before now.


                        • MimzMum
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                            lolz! Oh gee, try to get a picture of that if it happens again. Fiver flops so hard the resulting THUD is heard all the way through the house! But only on his side so far. It’s like someone cut his feet out from under him or something.
                            Mimzy kind of ‘screws’ himself into his flops, and they are VERY quiet.
                            Pip, well, she just glares from her shelf. The Ice Princess, I call her now.


                          • kimberleyanddarren
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                              how about hvaing a little run so when she makes noise you can let her into the run and then go back to sleep?


                            • somebunny
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                                how long do rabbits sleep? and how can you tell when they’re awake? or asleep?


                              • kimberleyanddarren
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                                  i dont really notice my 2 sleeping that much, they sometimes sleep with their eyes open though so im not to sure,


                                • dmh426
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                                    Sophie’s always been up and about around 4:40-5:00 a.m.ish….around 6:15 I can hear her down the hallway wating her breakfast by throwing whatever is handy in her condo (i refuse to call it a cage. it’s two levels and two feet by two feet. it’s a taj mahal of cages)

                                    I have never seen her sleep.


                                  • Beka27
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                                      as i’ve said before, i am a big lover of SLEEPING. since i have the buns in the room attached to mine, every morning they do the digging thing at 6 am. it drives me nuts. i just close my bedroom door and go back to bed.


                                    • Kokaneeandkahlua
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                                        It’s hard to tell when a bunny is asleep, I believe they have a second eyelid like cats so they don’t blink often and can sleep with their eyes open!

                                        When they are asleep on their sides konked out it’s easy to tell. Another indicator is their nose stops wiggling!

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