Toys
Toys and Enrichment Environment is a very important issue for us.
If you think it's too much pampering or freshness, let me tell you that we need to be stimulated, to be entertained, to be challenged, bunnies who don't have toys, nor are stimulated can stay depressants and even die, we don't want sad bunnies and for that, nothing better than toys, Many toys.
But calm down, you don't need to run to spend all your coins into toys for us in truth many toys can be made by you, without spending lots of money. Sometimes we are just like the cats, in which their humans buy very sophisticated and expensive toys and in the end they only play with the boxes, or even like yours sons humans, when you buy that top toy and atThe end of night he is getting fun doing a castle or a car with the box, with us it's also the same.
The base of our toys can and should be wood, but attention that the wood can´t be treated as well it could´t be Pine (Pine is very toxic for us, remember? If you don't remember, look here alsoit can be carboard, as long as it does not have paints or glues toxic and in moderation, because if we eat a lot of cardboard we can be bloking and the objective is play, not get sick (see here what is Obstruction), also we can have plastic toys, as long as it's hard plastic, which cannot be chewed or eaten.
You can buy toys at pet stores, but if you look for a neighbor or friend you can get sticks or twigs trees (apple, pear, birch, etc.), which serve very well to entertain ourselves and you only need to pay attention to one thing, it can't have fungus or moss or those greens things that sometimes the sticks has, this is too much important that it don't have, as it can cause serious problems in our digestive system, but other than that, it can come directly from the tree to our teeth.
Another option is to go to a carpentry shop or even to those DIY Shops and bring some boards of wood, believe me, if you have bunnies who love baseboards, these boards placed in the right places will be yours happiness.
Hang one rope from one end of the pen to the other or between two chairs and hang vine leaves, or banana leaves or any other leaf anything healthy that we like to eat, with some springs, we're going to have fun for a long time trying to reach and eat those good little things that are there hanging, besides it does a lot well to our health because it forces us to stretch and we are not so long without do anything.
However, I managed to talk to my Dad and he gave me the instructions for some toys that he did at home for me and my brothers, they are very simple toys, which all humans can do without spending money and with things you certainly have at home.
But if you think you don't have hability for this, I convinced my father to make some toys and sell them in mystore! See here
Father Vater's Toys
click on the images to see how it's done.
Father also used to pick up pine cones in the forest that we had near our home, you can pick pine cones too for your bunnies, you have to prepare them before giving them to them, as they have a lot of sap and garbage.
The first thing to do is see if it don't have pine nuts, if it had, take them out and eat them, if not, wash it very well withWaterand a brush to remove earth, then put it in a pan with water and leave boil for 30m, the cone will contract and become all closed, after boiling, carefully remove it and put it in the oven at 120ºC for another 30 minutes, you will see that it will open, turn off the oven and leave it there until cool, then you can give it like this or if you want you can put herbs, biscuits or even stick sticks in the pine cone and give it to yours bunnies to play.
When cousins from Brazil came to visit us, they used to bring coconuts dry, after Mother and Grandmother take off the white part of the coconut, they gave it to us gnaw and we're entertained, if you have a cousin who brings you coconuts or some coconut tree close, take advantage and give it to your bunny for him to stay entertained.
Father still has more projects here to show you, but they are more complicated, keep on stopping by and I'll try to get them here as soon as possible.
