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Can you imagine what it must be like for a human to be shut in a tiny room for hours at a time with nothing to do, eat or play with? It would be just like a prison sentence.

Then why do some people insist on doing this to their rabbit?

Your rabbit needs to have something to do!

Give her toys to play with, things such as:

- a cardboard box big enough to sit in, hide in and scratch about in. You can also fill it with shredded news paper, hay, organic peat (if you don't mind the mess!). Cut a hole in the side of the box and let her 'redesign it'

- the cardboard inner tube of a toilet roll or kitchen roll stuffed with hay or newspaper

- hard plastic baby toys (but make sure she doesn't eat them)

- unpainted/untreated wooden blocks to chew on (this keeps her incisors in good condition too)

- big brown paper bags to hide in

- a small towel, some buns like to scrunch it up and straighten it out again (watch out for her eating it though, and if she does, take it away from her)

...... use your imagination but make sure it’s safe, and if it looks like your rabbit is eating plastic, take it away and give it something safer to chew on.

Rabbits are very nosey and active when they are happy. They should be let out to play either in a very secure garden (remember cats and dogs should never be left alone with a rabbit, their natural instinct is to chase, and they could chase your rabbit and either kill it or badly frighten it), a covered rabbit run or in a bunny-proofed room. They enjoy human company and can easily be trained to use a litter box like a cat does. Some rabbits like to sit with you and watch the TV. If you let your rabbit run about indoors, make sure there are no electric wires or cables they can reach as your rabbit will likely chew on them and get seriously hurt or even killed, keep houseplants out of their reach as most of them are poisonous, and make sure they know where the litter box is (put newspaper in it and some of their droppings).

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