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Teddy101

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hello guys, please help me! I cannot get rest because Teddy keeps on waking me up at night. She gets me on my last nerve because it's like she's testing me. Every time every time I put her in the cage, she's always making a mess and tearing down everything. For example she tips over her cardboard hiding house on purpose and starts chewing on the bars. I only get about 5 hours of sleep, maybe four hours of sleep a night. Not like she doesn't come out the cage at all. She comes out every day. From about 9 in the morning, until about 10 at night. Please help me what should I do. I was thinking of maybe getting a playpen. Will that help. Is the is the cage too small for her. Please help.
 
Cover the bars with fleece blankets, it stopped my buck on chewing the bars :)

Giving her a bigger cage can also help, don’t know how your set up is.

Before I also only got 4 hours sleep everyday.
 
You could also try filling up a load of fresh hay in the cage right before bed. It is important to stop the bar-chewing, though, because it can cause their teeth to misalign. If necessary, you can zip-tie some cardboard to block the areas of the cage where he chews the bars. He'll chew at the cardboard, but that can be replaced and won't hurt his teeth.

On another note, try to be quite specific in your thread titles. Rather than "help" which is very vague, try "help, bunny keeping me awake all night." That way it will draw more people who may have dealt with the situation before.

Here's a similar thread with more tips:
https://www.rabbitsonline.net/threads/cant-sleep-bunny-is-very-loud-at-night.94330/#post-1112636
 
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To sum up some of what I've said in other similar threads... rabbits are crepuscular - most active in "twilight" hours (but also at 3 am). It's not a test, it's just when they have the most energy. Biology tells them to be most active when there are the least predators awake/skulking around. You will never convince a rabbit that it's not time for them to play when you're trying to sleep unless you become nocturnal.

If putting the rabbit in a different room simply isn't an option for whatever reason, your only alternatives are trying to substitute quieter diversions, like a dig box full of shredded paper, if the bunn doesn't pee in it, a phone book (if you can find one these days :() to rip up or some butcher paper/packing paper - paper tearing is easier to tune out than banging on the bars.

Above all else, if you're stuck sleeping with a rabbit in your room, I can NOT over-emphasize the importance of some sort of white noise/sleep sounds! Youtube is full of them. The sound of a train chugging in the rain is the one my husband and I agree works best for us when we need to drown out animal shenanigans, but if something different suits you better, it's bound to be on Youtube somewhere. The right soothing, relaxing background noise will train your brain to ignore noises below a certain volume threshold while sleeping. I can't promise you won't still be woken up by particularly loud bunny shenanigans, but it won't be loud, grating sounds in an otherwise silent room. I don't think I could've survived loud apartment neighbors + crazy animals without sleep sounds!
 

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