What's more fun then watching your bunny having fun, enjoying herself, being happy? And how can you be a better pet owner than providing your rabbit with mind stimulants and healthy alternatives to store-bought treats?
The bunnies loved these toys that I made today, especially Lance and my house rabbit (they both crave treats more than anything). 
You need 4 toilet paper tubes for just 1 of these toys.
1. Take a normal cardboard toilet paper tube.

2. Fold three toilet paper tubes and squeeze them inside the first tube. 

3. Put a treat of some sort inside the gaps created. I used small chunks of celery for today's treat. For a young bunny, you can also use oats. 

For my house rabbit I only put two toilet paper tubes inside the first, to make bigger gaps. If she isn't instantly gratified she freaks out and throws a tantrum. If you can't tell, she's pretty spoiled. 

The bunnies declare them a hit!

Clipping your rabbit's nails can seem daunting and even scary...for both you and your bunny. But don't worry, it sounds more scary than it really is!
1. Hold your rabbit upside down in your lap
2. Push the hair on the foot down and find a nail. If you have white rabbit or "broken" colored rabbit, it will be easier to see the "quick" (the blood supply in the nail). Clip just the tip of the nail. If you clip the nails regularly, this is all that will be required. In my 3 years of raising rabbits, I have never cut the quick. 
3. Sit your rabbit up and put him back in his cage. 
There! You're all done!

SOME HELPFUL TIPS....
A week or so before you go to clip your rabbit's nails, hold him in your lap upside down daily. If he struggles, do it for longer. This will not only teach your rabbit that nail clipping is easy peasy, but it will also give you confidence and that's the most important thing when clipping your bunny's nails. If you seem scared or overwhelmed, your rabbit will sense that and nothing good will come of this experience.
Rabbits have 4 nails on each back foot and 5 nails on each front foot. Make sure you clip the dewclaw on the inside of each front foot (the back feet don't have dewclaws). It can curve and be hard to clip if it gets too long.

I recommend clipping your rabbit's nails every 2-4 weeks. 

Hopefully Gracie and Cinnamon are pregnant and we have babies on the way! 
Sir Lancelot is the sire to both upcoming litters. I just wish I could be sure they both took or not before waiting a month to see. Ideally this means I have double the chance of a litter next month. But Cinnamon's babies will all be kept for a few months longer, and with all the people I have interested in Gracie's babies....I really need her to be pregnant! 
These are the most litters I have ever expected. I'm crazy excited but so nervous for Cinnamon. She's so small and getting older too. I love her so much that I want to keep her, but if she can only be shown (and does WELL), but can't produce for me, what's the point? I want a doe and buck that win at shows but that also produce winners. Oh, the life of raising rabbits....

I've added some very extensive articles to the website that I'm super excited about! Check them out! 
~Breeding Holland Lop Rabbits (can also be applied to other breeds)
~Before you Breed Rabbits 

Have a nice day!

How smart ARE bunnies?
Smart enough to get the morning paper and bring it to you?
Smart enough to learn its name?
Maybe not smart enough to do the first one, but definitely smart enough to do the second! 
My house rabbit, Elsie, is VERY smart. Almost too smart for her own good. She lives in my bedroom, and I let her run around it for a few hours a day. But when I leave the room and can't pay attention to her, she must go into her cage.
When I snap in her cage, she knows its time to go home. To teach her, each time I snapped, I would put oats or a treat in her bowl if she responded. Nothing if she didn't. 
She's smart enough that she knows when something is in her bowl or not, before going into her cage. She heard me rattle the oat bag, and drop the oats in her dish. She waits for my snap, and hops inside to munch her tasty treats.
When there's nothing in her bowl, she doesn't respond. I'll snap and snap and snap, and nothing. THEN, since I need to get her home, I give her treats. And she knows I do this too. She always gets her way. Elsie is very spoiled.

Elsie used to nip me when I wasn't paying attention to her. It was startling, though it didn't really hurt, and of course she'd get her way and I'd pet her. I've changed that now and she doesn't bite anymore. Whenever she wants to be held, pet or cuddled, she licks me and puts her paws up on my lap. 

Elsie also has a wild side. She's always wanted to be out of my room. We let her play in the living room sometimes, when it's clean, but with 7 humans in the house (usually more then that, I babysit in my home all the time), that's kind of rare. Whenever someone opens my bedroom door, she's right there, begging to go out. If you put your foot in the way of the door, to keep her from getting out, she'll scratch and claw at you to move her foot and create the opening to let her squeeze by. 

She knows where I am at all times. She's always right there, underfoot, begging for attention. She jumps on my bed and cuddles with me while I do my school or watch a show with my sister. 
She knows which bed is mine. My sister and I share a room, but she rarely jumps up on my sister's bed (she does sometimes). Whenever I'm in my room and not petting her, or not even in the room, she assumes I'm on my bed and hops up to look for me. 

I love her so much. As she gets older and older, somehow I keep loving her more and more. She was a little terror when she was a baby. She wouldn't let me clip her nails so they became claws she would always scratch everyone with. She would eat plastic and go on rampages to find everything she wasn't supposed to have, and eat it. She used to HATE to be held, cuddled, whatever. If her feet left the ground, she hated it. She loved running the length of my room more then anything.

Now, at 3 and a half years old, she's changed. She's getting older and slower. She'd rather be pet and held then run around my room now. She lets me clip her nails. She's much easier to deal with now, even though sometimes she'll still nip like she did as a baby and sometimes she'll eat whatever she finds under my sister's bed. 

I found this awesome article on the The Rabbit House a couple days ago, and I'm so excited to share it with you all. 

I just bred Sir Lancelot to Cinnamon again. It went very well, so I'm hopeful for a better outcome this time. Lance really liked Cinnamon; I can tell she's his favorite doe! They were so cute together, cuddling and giving kisses. 
If she took, Cinnamon is due May 17, almost a full week after Gracie's May 12 due date. I'm hoping and praying for nests full of life, wriggling and noisy babies in May. Could next month be our month?

INGREDIENTS:

*for bunnies 6mos and up*

*adjust the flavor to your rabbit's taste.*

• 1/4 cup of your rabbit's pellets
• 1/4 cup uncooked, Old-fashioned plain rolled oats
• 1 banana
• 2 carrots
• TBSP water to help with crushing the pellets and oats

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat the oven to 325*
2. In a large mixing bowl, crush the oats and pellets together. It helps to add water.
3. Finely shred the carrots and add them to the oats and pellets.
4. Add a banana
5. Mash and stir the mixture together.
6. Make medium-sized balls of the mixture, and flatten it out on an ungreased cookiesheet.
7. Cook the treats for 30 minutes to dry them out. Cook longer for untra-dry cookies. 
8. Remove from oven and let cool for another 30 minutes.

WARNING: These treats really stink...to humans anyway. They also look pretty disgusting. 

It passes the bunny test! They all went crazy over them! 

I recently saw a video of a couple rabbit owners bathing their rabbit. They are obviously speaking a different language, but you can clearly see that they think their bathing technique was so cute and funny. Wrong. To see the video, click HERE.

Anyone that knew rabbits would know that the rabbit is frigid with fear. It's squeaks and whines? Do rabbits do that when they are happy? My rabbits grunt and "purr", when they are happy, but they have NEVER squeaked like that. And they never should! 
Rabbits don't need baths. They clean themselves like cats. 
It makes me sick just thinking of someone doing that to my babies!