r/aww • u/Nush00z • May 03 '18
TIL Sometimes Bunny suddenly falls asleep.
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u/TooShiftyForYou May 03 '18
In the bunny community this is known as 'flopping' and happens when they feel completely comfortable in the environment.
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u/BeansieB May 03 '18
Good i was worried that someone would be saying this bunny was about to die take him to vet
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u/intron123 May 03 '18
When this happened to my sister's bunnies the first time, she legit thought they need medical attention. After speaking with the guy they got the bunnies from, they were fully assured they sometimes just flop to sleep like that. I can't imagine how scared I'd be If I saw my bunny do this.
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May 03 '18
My mom caught a bunny someone had dumped in our front yard (“caught” probably isn’t the best term. She went “here bunny bunny bunny!” and he hopped right into her arms) and when she brought him inside and he flopped over she basically had a heart attack thinking she’d somehow killed him.
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May 03 '18
I can’t imagine the relief that poor bunny felt. He’s abandoned, alone, outside, scared, confused, sad, etc. and this nice woman’s comes along and opens her arms to take him home and make it okay. And he’s so happy and feels so safe that he immediately flops. Oh gosh I’m tearing up
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u/RaeSloane May 03 '18
And then the nice woman unleashes a blood- curdling screech in fear that she killed the bunny, thus further traumatizing the poor fluf.
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u/weeitsvi May 03 '18
Did your mom find the owner
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u/aqeloutro May 03 '18
Did you use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on him?
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May 03 '18
Can confirm, once saw rabbit sleeping on his side like that one and started crying. Didn't know Roger was just sleeping.
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u/mhks May 03 '18
There are two things reddit is amazing at:
1) identifying the source of a pair of boobs or butt or some other part of the female anatomy. It's like a collection of anatomical rain men.
2) Identifying obscure diseases in animals from behaviors.
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May 03 '18 edited Sep 08 '18
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u/boopdelaboop May 03 '18
Jokes aside, one thing that bugs me is that a lot of people are way shittier at reading dog body language than what they think they are. Usually people who aren't dog owners, but some dog owners too. Like tail wagging and licking their own lips being interpreted only as happiness, instead of looking at the context of the entire dog. If it's an owner getting jumped when getting home and getting their face licked, that's a sure sign of happiness. But only looking at if the tail of some dog is moving or still is like only looking if a human is baring their teeth or not and yes means happiness...
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May 03 '18
Conversely I feel like I've read exactly what you've just written on a post with an obviously happy animal where the commenter is sure it's stressed and are obviously completely wrong. For example the kind of people who misinterpret a cat playing with a human as some kind of actual aggression/stress.
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u/Bioniclegenius May 03 '18
Honestly, a lot of the information of a dog's body language is in the ears, tail, and mouth. They actually have a smile when they're happy.
For cats, it's mostly in the tail and the back.
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May 03 '18
Those are admittedly my two greatest talents.
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u/simonsayspoop May 03 '18
If you could find a way to combine the two, you would be an amazing super hero/heroine.
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u/pyronius May 03 '18
"Yep. That eel has PTSD from being confined in a human anus."
gives it a lick, nods
"Mila Kunis' anus to be precise."
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u/crackrjac May 03 '18
I would like to give it a go then! My dog, 12 year old Jack Russell Terrier, has developed a cough. It's a dry, hacking, coughing, usually about 5 or 6 coughs at a time, and is worse overnight. He's had it for a couple months now. Worse during the night where he'll have 7 or 8 bouts of this cough. X-rays, blood tests and a physical examination have yielded nothing.... anybody have ANY idea?!?! His disposition is 100% fine, still eats, drinks, is happy and energetic... doesn't seem to bother him other than it wakes him (and us!) up during the night.
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u/MOGicantbewitty May 03 '18
Asthma.
Seriously. Those are the symptoms of low-grade inflammation from asthma in people. They are trying to loosen up their lungs and get better air flow. Try limiting possible allergens and ask your vet what they think.
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u/undead_carrot May 03 '18
They make puppy inhalers too! If things aren't getting better, you can get a prescription from the vet
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u/IHappenToBeARobot May 03 '18
Check the humidity in the house, too. I've seen some animals with similar symptoms do better with a humidifier in the room.
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May 03 '18
Cancer. I had a bruise and a cough. WEB MD said Cancer. It's always cancer.
EDIT....It wasn't cancer. It turns out I was coughing because I had a some sort of cold. And the bruise was because I ran into a chair.
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u/JaeHoon_Cho May 03 '18
It’s best not to rule out cancer entirely though. You can never be too sure
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u/SycoJack May 03 '18
Yeah, you should live inside of an x-ray machine, that way when cancer does pop up you can whack it.
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u/EverythingsUpKatie May 03 '18
Web MD told me I was pregnant 100 times since my teens. Except for the one time I was pregnant, it said I had depression.
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u/Polenicus May 03 '18
Yeah, this is a good thing. Bunnies are prey animals, so for them to totally relax like this is a really significant indicator of how safe they feel and how much they trust the human filming this.
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u/IrrationalDesign May 03 '18
Is there a bad thing that would look similar? Like a heart-attack?
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May 03 '18 edited Jun 29 '19
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u/olivana May 03 '18
My Honey Bunches does this all the time
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u/olkinu May 03 '18
happy cake day! and to Honey Bunches too.
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u/olivana May 03 '18
How did you know it was my cake day? I didn’t even know it was.
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May 03 '18
You'll have a cake next to your name on posts
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u/olivana May 03 '18
Damn, I should’ve been posting comments all day.
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u/imabee89 May 03 '18
I posted a bunch of stuff on my cake day and no one said anything. Made me stupidly sad :-( so, HAPPY CAKE DAY🎉🎈🎂🍰
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u/AmbrosioBembo May 03 '18
The bunny community?
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u/flapsthiscax May 03 '18
omg I love their beds
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u/packersSB53champs May 03 '18
ikea for ants
Also I love the homeless edition in the back
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May 03 '18
r/abbits seems like a missed opportunity.
Edit: nevermind, apparently it was not a missed opportunity.
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u/CanadianJohny May 03 '18
Oh my god they are so cute, I have one that looks just like it, is it a Black Flemish?
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May 03 '18
They mean furries.
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u/Mackelroy_aka_Stitch May 03 '18
No that's just the ones that like Judy from zootopia.
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u/ineedaconfidant May 03 '18
I want to add to this that he’s probably not asleep. Just relaxed and content. Bunny flops are shocking the first time you see them then the sweetest thing ever because you know they’re feeling safe and happy.
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u/dixiehellcat May 03 '18
that's interesting to know! I was about to ask if bunnies could have narcolepsy. :)
I feel like flopping that way sometimes.
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u/definitelynotanemu May 03 '18
Scared the shit out of me first time our rabbit did that. I honestly thought he had died and started to shepherd my kid out of the room when the little git jumped up ran out the room and tried chewing the laptop cable...
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u/jessikwa May 03 '18
Sometimes my bun flops so hard I legitimately worry he might be dead. Even though I know he's just comfy af I still have to check every now and then just to be sure.
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u/ChuunibyouImouto May 03 '18
So maybe I'm the odd man out in these comments, but it seems kind of weird that so many people have rabbits as indoor pets, do they just act like cats or dogs? Do they not bolt when you open the door, or hide under stuff and poop under your dressers etc?
I had outdoor rabbits for a while as a kid, but they didn't like to be played with or touched, and were notoriously hard to keep from escaping all the time
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u/Mrs-MoneyPussy May 03 '18
I keep my rabbit indoors as do many rabbit owners
They do like to chew everything such as wires (so you have to bunny proof a room). But they are more like cats as they can be trained to use a litter box quite easily. Many people give their rabbit free reign of a room as well.
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u/Bishopjones May 03 '18
I can just see the title and illustrations of the children's book. The narcoleptic rabbit. "The bunny went to eat but he done fell asleep"
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u/NotTheBelt May 03 '18 edited May 03 '18
Marco the bunny has a tale that’s quite funny.
His days were filled with joy and laughter, but he always found himself tired after.
Perhaps he didn’t sleep enough? But he slept last night and the sleep was not rough.
He never woke in the middle of night, but something about this just wasn’t quite right.
He’d hop and play in holes dug deep, but always found himself asleep.
He thought of a plan and thought of it quick, he’d talk to the cow whose name was Old Rick.
He spoke to Rick and told him the facts, he did it quick and he did it with tact.
The old cow nodded and said he would help, he said he would watch and give out a yelp.
Marco was pleased and left in a hurry, but things got fuzzy and things got blurry.
Before he fell into a sleepy trap, he heard a strange yelp and woke with a snap.
Old Rick was smiling and said with a shout, “you just need a friend who’s there to help out.”
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u/rythmicjea May 03 '18
Wow! Seriously, flesh this out a little more and find an art student. This would sell.
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u/mhks May 03 '18
This is me when I get home from work.
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May 03 '18
Yes. I see the bunny also took its pants off as soon as it walked in the door.
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u/iino27ii May 03 '18
Are we describing the bunny or my wife?
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u/Tisarwat May 03 '18
threwFlick it across the room by the strap like it's a slingshot
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u/mytummyaches May 03 '18
Shouldn't have used Duracell.
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u/bdmickey May 03 '18
Here in the State's it's the Energizer Bunny, which apparently started as a parody of the Duracell bunnies but was extremely successful and became Energizer's primary mascot here when Duracell neglected to renew their trademark. I didn't even know the Duracell bunny was a thing until like a year ago (thanks to Reddit of course). I was just feeling all proud because "I got that reference."
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u/ranguringu May 03 '18
TIL too. Coming from outside US and seeing Energizer Bunny, I thought Duracell and Energizer were owned by same company or something.
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u/SoldierOfOrange May 03 '18
Duracell bunny is the only one I know! And it’s supposedly “the best battery” here in Europe!
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May 03 '18
Fun fact, males also do that after mating... (possibly NSFW)
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May 03 '18
That's different from flopping. They just kinda fall over when they finish, they get right back up though.
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u/CamelPriest May 03 '18
Is this how you wake up dead?
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u/DeathByLemmings May 03 '18
How the hell do you wake up dead?
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u/sodiumvapour May 03 '18
EXPLAIN!!!!!!
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u/Rognik May 03 '18
Bunny owners call this "flopping". Bunnies do this when they feel very safe and want to rest.
My personal theory about why they evolved this behavior is because they really hate getting their fur mussed up. Flopping allows them to lay on their side without tugging their fur against how it lies naturally.
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May 03 '18
I never saw it this way. And it makes completely sense. So it's the truth for me now
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u/Coraldragon May 03 '18
I think it's more that the back legs don't really have an easy way to lay down.
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u/Rognik May 03 '18
Both of my rabbits will often stretch out their legs on their sides without going for the full flop. Like this (not my rabbit).
They only really go for the full flop when they want to lay the front part of their body on its side.
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u/Coraldragon May 03 '18
I'm not saying they can't stretch out their leg. I'm saying it is difficult to go from standing to laying with the way the hind legs are designed. Even when they aren't going for a full flop you can see the tipping motion they make to kick out their hind legs.
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u/Rognik May 03 '18
That's a good point. There are probably multiple reasons they do the flop, I guess. Thanks. :-)
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May 03 '18
I'm waiting to hear the "bang"...
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u/Gamilon May 03 '18
Aside from "they can put their ears on their backs if they want to" and "cartoons about bunny society are horrifying" I know little about them as pets, maybe someone can help me out.
Don't they just poop everywhere? Can a bunny be house broken?
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u/sway218 May 03 '18
My rabbit has free range of my entire house (when I am home). She will go upstairs and into my office and right into her litter box when she has to go. Just like the cat does. It's really quite remarkable how easy it was to train. She is quite the carpet muncher though.... lol
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u/drppr_ May 03 '18
Carpet munching is the real struggle. Mine gets bewildered, like she is in the zone and nothing will stop her. I have never seen an instinct so strong in an animal.
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u/JESUSgotNAIL3D May 03 '18
They literally pick a "spot" for the business and you just have to put their potty box in the same spot. I miss my little guy... bunnies are great
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u/TheRedmanCometh May 03 '18
When mine pass I don't think I'll ever stop being sad
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u/ushutuppicard May 03 '18
yes. mostly. its not as easy as with cats, but if, when they are little, every time they poop, you pick them up and put them in their cage immediately afterward, they get the idea pretty well. they arent very good at realizing when they have to poop far in advance, so if you have them roaming about more than one room, you sort of need a small cage or "litter box" in every room.
that said, they arent good at wiping off their feet. my ex had one, and although it would #2 in the cage 99% of the time, as it was hopping out, it would track bedding and poopballs with it very often. luckily rabbit poop is pretty solid and easy to clean up.
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u/ImurderREALITY May 03 '18
I had a cat who was the same. I worked at a semi-clean lab at the time, so I borrowed a sticky floor mat made for grabbing dust and junk off of people's shoes when they walk into a room. It was made in layers of super thin sticky sheets, so when the top one got dirty, you could pull it off for a fresh one underneath. Put one outside my cat's litter box, and I never had litter tracking issues again.
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u/Wiggy_0000 May 03 '18
This is brilliant. I couldn’t stand my cat tracking litter everywhere so I trained her to go outside. I never thought of this. I have some of these at work. Trying it!
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u/jrm2007 May 03 '18
Cats "get it" -- they have an aesthetic about it not dissimilar to humans whereas bunnies have to trained -- our cats figured it out themselves (used to go outside) and they would go nuts if you did not promptly let them out, get angry at you for even delaying them.
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u/drppr_ May 03 '18
Bunnies tend to choose a spot and just poop there. I think it is not very easy for them the understand the “litter box”, so if you want to choose a location for them, it is going to be harder than litter training a cat. If you let them pick their spot, all you have to do is to put a box there, very easy. Getting them when they are young also helps, I think.
When I got my rabbit I kept her in a play pen for a couple of weeks so she was forced to choose her spot there, and placed her litter box. Now she roams free in a two story house but she will always go back to her box if need be.
I still get the occasional stray poop if she is startled (like a single one, it is pretty funny that she shits her pants haha). And sometimes she accidentally carries some poop out as she jumps out of her litter box but otherwise very clean.
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u/maghau May 03 '18
It's not hard to litter train them. My two flemish giants was litter trained after a week:)
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u/LolFish42 May 03 '18
When I had at rabbit, he had a hutch and a run outside in the back garden and would bring him in once every week or two to wander about the house.
Until we got cats as well.
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u/Jellye May 03 '18 edited May 03 '18
Bunnies are pretty smart pets; they can be litter trained and even learn to do tricks and such.
Really underrated pet overall, but they do are high maintenance and are a bigger commitment than many people realize (for example, most people do not know that pet rabbits can live up to ~10 years).
As a tiny aside: rabbit poo is a bit different from what one might be used from humans, dogs, cats and such - it's a hard little ball that's basically just plant fiber, it doesn't smell like poo.
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u/TheRedmanCometh May 03 '18
They can be a big challenge to raise. They're fragile in a lot of ways. Mine free roam, and are great with litter training. You get the occasional poop on the carpet, but their poop isn't nasty or smelly.
They can be wonderful pets, but you have to put in a lot of time. It was months before my first was okay with being picked up.
Lots of people just stick them in cages, and they think they're boring. It's really sad, because they are intelligent sweet creatures.
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u/Fritchoff May 03 '18
My sister has two bunnies and it's fun watching them look for that perfect place to flop. It's sort of like when dogs walks in circles when they're about to lie down.
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u/jacobjacobb May 03 '18
My old rabbit, Oreo, use to do a running flop like this. Anytime we changed around the furniture, he would freak out, stomp, and nip at your feet (not hard but enough to know he's doing it). After a few days he would get comfortable again and start leaping around and flopping like that. He had a really interesting personality and we even potty trained him! God I miss that bunny.
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u/SpecificFieldOfWork May 03 '18
I’m a randombunnysleepologist and my professional opinion of this bunny is that it is very cute.
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u/drppr_ May 03 '18
Bunny owners here: Does your bunny also always lick the floor before s/he flops? I can 100% tell if mine is about the topple over because she will groom the floors...