Alicia
Mama Doe
In my animal behaviour lesson yesterday the teacher was talking about giving animals choices/decisions to make to keep their minds busy and stop them from becoming bored, she said that as animals are often fed at the same time, are allowed out to exercise at the same time every day they can become bored and giving them decisions to make and choices keeps their mind busy, and I was thinking about this for my rabbits and guinea-pigs. They have the same thing almost every day, the most changes they get are if its raining the guinea-pigs don't go in the run and the rabbits dont go out on the grass, but these really aren't very interesting and its probably worse for them because they are stuck in their hutch. They don't even have much in the way of toys (although I'm going to get them some more toys soon) so they must be pretty bored. What can I do to give them choices/decisions to make and make things a bit different for them?
Also my teacher was talking about variety in diets to keep things interesting for the animal, and I know I can't give the rabbits and guinea-pigs much of a change because it will upset their stomach but is there anything I can do to make things different for them?
Also my teacher was talking about variety in diets to keep things interesting for the animal, and I know I can't give the rabbits and guinea-pigs much of a change because it will upset their stomach but is there anything I can do to make things different for them?