Hyzenthlaytherabbit
New Kit
As the title suggests my mother simply will NOT stop feeding Aesop carrots. I have talked to her about it many times, told her to stop, asked her to stop, explained to her why she needs to stop but she just won't listen, her argument is that she used to feed her rabbit carrots when she was a child... However this was in 1950/60 when they thought it was okay to leave tortoises in the garden to fend for themselves, hmm...
Aesop has also learnt a new trick to get said carrots. He's an indoor bunny at the moment, out garden is too small and insecure for him, and his house is in the room next to my mothers and he has discovered if he thumps very loudly in the middle of the night mum will get up and bring him fresh carrots from the fridge!
I have tried explaining that he has obviously learnt that thumping at 3am = carrots and if she stopped doing this he would also stop, but to no avail.
He has plenty of space, food, water and hay. He has a dim light coming from the hall that he can see by and he's not frightened. Carrots are the only reason he thumps as far as I can see.
Are there any healthier options of treats that rabbits love that I can use to try and wean my mother and him off the carrots (There's a phrase I didn't think I'd ever use, ha!)?
This is more of a rant than anything else I suppose, am just at a bit of a loose end at what to do, other than chucking all the carrots out of the house!!
Aesop has also learnt a new trick to get said carrots. He's an indoor bunny at the moment, out garden is too small and insecure for him, and his house is in the room next to my mothers and he has discovered if he thumps very loudly in the middle of the night mum will get up and bring him fresh carrots from the fridge!
I have tried explaining that he has obviously learnt that thumping at 3am = carrots and if she stopped doing this he would also stop, but to no avail.
He has plenty of space, food, water and hay. He has a dim light coming from the hall that he can see by and he's not frightened. Carrots are the only reason he thumps as far as I can see.
Are there any healthier options of treats that rabbits love that I can use to try and wean my mother and him off the carrots (There's a phrase I didn't think I'd ever use, ha!)?
This is more of a rant than anything else I suppose, am just at a bit of a loose end at what to do, other than chucking all the carrots out of the house!!