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

[Tracey Fredman]

:) 

I shouldn't admit this, but after Robyn had learned our apartment, I learned that he liked to hide behind the toilet. Well, the water pipe thingy is actually plastic so I decided I'd keep the door closed.
I should have told him ... but one day he was flying around and I heard this loud collision taking place between my running rabbit and the closed bathroom door.

Thankfully, Robyn was okay (and the door too). But rearranging furniture or other things can be very dangerous to our little rabbits!

Tracey

----- Original Message ----
From: Jenny Riley <bunnybean at gmail.com>
To: PETBUNNY at LSV.UKY.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:26:05 PM
Subject: Re: re. Need Robyn's Help!/rabbit orienteering skills


when we were trying to teach Muffin the stairs we took her downstairs
 to
make her hop her way back up. And she would hop up to the landing and
 back
down no problem.

When she finally hopped all the way back up to the second floor she had
 a
little bunny revelation. You could see the realization set in it dawn
 on her
"ooooooh, I know where I yam, so dis leads to *here*"

it was too funny.

-- Jenny, Muffin and Scout

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...')
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Mary
>
>
>
>
>






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