springflowers
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Hi i'm renting a lionhead lop that i'm later considering keeping. He is 4 months old this week.
It's so far so good, he is extremely good at using the litterbox but some annoying behaviours in the morning.
Last morning sometime he got out of his enclosure and I found him when I woke up. He had chewed off two cables (nothing important luckily) and had been unable to get back into his enclosure which meant he hadn't eaten or anything for I dont know how long and that was not good. So he's started being very against being closed in especially in the morning when he's extremely noisy digging the carpet in his play pen and pulling at the steel mesh which means I cant sleep as he's right next to me. So i'm trying letting him freeroam in my room today and tonight and i've secured everything. I was gonna wait with letting him do that until he's neutered but i'm getting no sleep and it pains me to see him so upset with being closed up in a small space. So far him being loose in here is working well. He's a very calm bunny (except in the morning!) so he's mostly chilling.
I have some questions about letting a bunny be loose in your bedroom at night though...
1.I don't like the idea of him being in the bed with me when I sleep and he can and has jumped up there several times. He has sharp claws and i'm concerned he will bite me if I make sudden movements in my sleep and startle him or that I will roll onto him. Is that something which could happen and if so how can I prevent him from going in my bed?
2.Does it help a bunny remain less noisy in the morning if he has the whole room to himself? Often the most annoying thing he does in the morning is trying to dig out of the pen and I have to keep getting up to tell him to stop but he's also noisy jumping in and out of the cage which rattles when he jumps into it full force.
Any further advice is welcomed too.
It's so far so good, he is extremely good at using the litterbox but some annoying behaviours in the morning.
Last morning sometime he got out of his enclosure and I found him when I woke up. He had chewed off two cables (nothing important luckily) and had been unable to get back into his enclosure which meant he hadn't eaten or anything for I dont know how long and that was not good. So he's started being very against being closed in especially in the morning when he's extremely noisy digging the carpet in his play pen and pulling at the steel mesh which means I cant sleep as he's right next to me. So i'm trying letting him freeroam in my room today and tonight and i've secured everything. I was gonna wait with letting him do that until he's neutered but i'm getting no sleep and it pains me to see him so upset with being closed up in a small space. So far him being loose in here is working well. He's a very calm bunny (except in the morning!) so he's mostly chilling.
I have some questions about letting a bunny be loose in your bedroom at night though...
1.I don't like the idea of him being in the bed with me when I sleep and he can and has jumped up there several times. He has sharp claws and i'm concerned he will bite me if I make sudden movements in my sleep and startle him or that I will roll onto him. Is that something which could happen and if so how can I prevent him from going in my bed?
2.Does it help a bunny remain less noisy in the morning if he has the whole room to himself? Often the most annoying thing he does in the morning is trying to dig out of the pen and I have to keep getting up to tell him to stop but he's also noisy jumping in and out of the cage which rattles when he jumps into it full force.
Any further advice is welcomed too.