[Petbunny] re. Need Robyn's Help!/rabbit orienteering skills

[Dee]

I think rabbits are smarter than people know.
Dally was up on the 3nd floor for awhile and had her routine, we moved her
back down to the 1st for over a year. Now she's is back to the third floor
and her "3rd floor routine' snapped right back. I come home at 5:30, she
thumper-roos into my bedroom even before I'm there to get changed, she still
won't venture into the vinyl floor bathroom, and at 11pm she's back into our
bedroom for night night treats and kisses. She lays at the bottom of our bed
for a bit, scampers off to her to bedroom and then does bunny 500's through
the 3rd floor at 4:30am. After a year she didn't even need a day or two to
adjust She never had to experience the bathroom to know it had vinyl floor
that she hates.
Years ago I couldn't say the word "out" or the dog would go nuts so when
talking to the SO we would say let the bunnies O-U-T.
If you spelled out O-U-T they would run to the cage door. It's just like
babies. They learn a word because of the action after.

dee


On Jan 15, 2008 3:47 PM, Nishioka, Mary <MNishioka at air.org> wrote:

> Bunnies have amazing memories when you think how large a house is in
> relation to their size. They know what rooms are on the hallway, and
> within each room, what the floor (furniture) layout is, escape routes,
> hidey holes are, everything.  And then when you consider they have eye
> on the sides of their heads and not in front like we do, their little
> minds processing what they see as they zoom down hallways, and around
> rooms-it's quite impressive. ('yep, that's there, yep there's that,
> which means there'll be something in front of me to hop around...')
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> I sort of wonder if bunnies' understanding of rooms and routes within a
> house sort of snap together like a jigsaw puzzle as they get acquainted
> room by room, over time.
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> When Herman and GT were alive it was neat to watch them navigate a new
> area of the house, and then when meander their way to a threshold of an
> area they are familiar with (eg doorway of hallway), all of a sudden it
> was like "aha! I know where I am!" and then they always have to hop back
> and forth and play to the new area, as if to commit it all to memory.
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