Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The bunny room!

Things have been progressing awesome-ly! The bunny room/library is finally finished!
The bunny room!
The next step is getting them all to love each other so they can permanently live in the room together with bunny love and peace.

Bonding status: The bonding has been going slowly but I now think that the first obstacle to beat is Cricket's angry responses to everything any other bunny does (growling and biting when another bunny goes for a sniff). I will be working mostly with her ClickerBunny style to get her to associate other bunnies with happiness (food = happiness = click = other bunnies = happiness). We are currently at the click = food = happiness stage but she seems to be catching on quickly! She's learned to stand up on her back legs at a hand sign and be rewarded by a click and treat. Again, I'm not sure if this is because of the clicker training that she's picked it up so quickly or if it's because she's naturally inclined to get food as fast as possible but it still can't hurt. Her clicker training sessions have been inside while Toby and Bunny run around outside but soon I'll start clicking for her when she sees the other bunnies/interacts with the other bunnies/sniffs the other bunnies. I've also been trying to make sure that the bunnies don't develop territory issues by swapping them from x-pen to x-pen.

Cricket is still mostly scared being outside and spends most of her time sitting in the dirt against the house but she ventures out a little.

She's also been eating flowers
So I guess overall, progress has been slow but that's nothing new.

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