He just bein a goofer? He's slightly overweight and me and my girlfriend have been diet watching, just really hoping he's not too hungry. He's about 11.4 pounds and all we're looking to lose is the 1.4 lbs.
He has an abundance of hay in his litter box and still a good amount in his bowl. He gets fed 1/3 cup of pellets in the morning periodically until 12 and i wake up at 7. Then gets a full plate of veggies at 4-5 and then sometimes a handful of pellets or vegetables again at 8-9 in between all these times he gets new hay refilled in both the litter box and food bowl all while having plenty of chew toys.
Funny, he used to do it to the water dish aswell, we made it bigger and stopped using tap water and switched to giving him the bottle watered we drink, and he hasn't done it since. Other then with the food bowl ofc haha
Mine did too. I had to get the kind that screw into a xpen panel. The. Attach a xpen panel to the wall so they couldn't throw them. The bowls came with inner bowls but they would throw those out, so I just use the main bowl.
Bunnies and containers have been in a long and brutal war for centuries. The conflict has gone on so long that no one remembers why they're fighting anymore. There is only hatred and chaos left.
i switched to big pyrex lasagna pans for water or else its immediately yeeted. not so much a concern for solids, rabbits are browsers so they want to see the food laid out 😀
I’ve always wondered this. I switched to putting my rabbits’ pellets on a plate out of concern and they started throwing the plates lmao. I’ve concluded that it might be a combination of both… wanting to eat the food off the floor and also wanting chaos and destruction.
Its in his way/he doesn't like your placement and is trying to move it. Try it a few more places, he might also just keep flipping it for fun. You can give him plastic baby cups for a better flip.
I noticed that some of our bunnies and fosters flip their bowls because the bottom of the bowl is too slick and the pellets roll around their face while they try to eat it. They typically will eat it off the floor after that because the floor grabs the pellets a little better.
I think all rabbits do thus. All of mine have anyways lol. I had to get a water bowl the kind that clamps to the side of the cage so he can't tip it over. If I didn't I would have a mess of water everywhere everyday
Ours love the stacking cups. Hiding pellets under them and stacking them with pellets hidden. Sometimes we put it between two cups, one inside the other to make it harder. There’s some super cheap ones on just4rabbits. :)
If I annoyed my old bun (came home late, fed him later than normal, tried to cuddle him when he was grumpy, etc) he would look me DEAD IN THE EYE and repeatedly tip over his water bowl 🙃
My bunny does this with his bowl (although much more aggressively) when he doesn't like what we gave him (because he's a spoiled chonk) or it's close to mealtime for him. He also does this when he wants treats. Maybe your bun bun wants treats? That or he's just being a goof
his previous owners would feed him treats all the time for anything. His diet was about 50% pellets 50% hay and they were only feeding him alfalfa hay. I know they fed vegetables but it was basically the exact same thing everyday and it was very colorful- carrots, strawberry the works-
I may actually be doing this haha, a lot of people here are recommending a flatter more textured bowl so my bun can sift through what he wants and get his food better and the bowl im looking at is colorful
Our Rex was doing this until we gave her a plate instead of a bowl. My wife researched it and said it could be to do with whisker fatigue and it seems to have stopped it going on 8ish weeks now.
He's being a little shit :) Buns love to throw things around, try and get him some baby stackable cups and feed him his pellets from them. Entertainment for hours. Also, learn from my mistakes, and never leave your coffee cup on the floor, or a glass of red wine, specially if you have carpet.
Despite being an animal that relies on stealth to avoid predators, bunnies seem to love making noise. Those plastic keys on a ring toys for babies are a bunny favorite.
My rabbit tends to flip his bowl when he is not satisfied with the contents or lack thereof. That means he wants something different or it's possibly just running low.
Adorable ❤️first time seeing bunnies. I had pet bunnies b4. Loved to go collect weeping willow branches good for pain and papaya enzymes tabs for digestion. Enjoy!
Mine does it when she's hungry 😂 Then when I bring her a bowl of food she trys to starting eating it out of the bowl while I'm still setting it down. Lol. Ieven take longer to set it down just to watch her.
My rabbits do this too. Once the dish gets nearly empty it’s hard for them to get the pellets on the bottom of a flat bottomed dish because of the shape of their mouth. If they can get them pushed into a pile on one side, it’s easier for them to access them.
Looks like he might be chinning on the bowl a bit to mark his scent? He also might just be playing with it though; my buns love to move their bowls around and mess with them, they've even chipped a couple of them in the process hahaha
Because he is a rabbit and rabbits are arseholes. I have small ceramic lasagna dishes for my terrorists, they are really heavy, like the weight of my buns and no more problems.
My bunny does this because he prefers to eat off the floor lol. Everything taste better from the floor to a bunny. Have you seen those oxbow plastic eggs that you fill with pellets and the bunny can push it around and pellets fall out? It makes eating pellets interactive lol
Our bunnys do something similar with the little ramps that go into their cages. They push them up and drop them back down. My wife thinks they are "hiding" their hay underneath. I wonder if it's an instinct thing. They love to do it at like 4 in the morning bang bang bang.
When I give my baby boy his morning allotment of pellets and tsp of oats, the first thing his does is grab the bowl and sling it around then eat it all off the floor.
Ours will rattle the bars of the corn that goes around where he sleeps, even thought he door is wide open. He’ll one back to the pen just to shake things to express his wish to see the manager.
My bunnies love to do this and eat the food off the floor instead. I honestly don’t know why I have bowls for them anyway. 😄 they also love to bang the bowls against each other really loud in the middle of the night. Wakes me up with heart palpitations sometimes, I think it amuses them…
It's foraging behaviour, totally normal for buns. A treat ball with his pellets in can give him exercise, as someone mentioned. Unlimited hay is great! A digging box can be good exercise, too. Rabbit.org is great for bunny info. Aww little cutie 💕
If it is anything it is him protesting his food. He may feel like it is not enough if he was on a pattern before, or just wrong in some way (flavor maybe).
Now that I’m seeing this…anyone know where I can get a super heavy ceramic crock/bowl that my 4lb mini Rex won’t throw? It’s his favorite tantrum to have but he spills so much water
They do that, rabbits are natural foragers so they just do it while feeding, nothing to be worried about. Mine will literally grab and tip her food bowl over so it spills everything out and then eat
My bunny does this with his pellets, which are the only food he gets in a dish. He’ll eat some of the pellets out of the dish, then he scatters the rest before eating them. I pretty much only use the dish for my convenience to scoop out and carry his pellets.
Lol I thought my bunny is only one doing it xD my bunny likes to eat the things from ground so she always tips the bowl with head or paws. By seeing all those comment they all do lol
I saw you pretty much got your answer, buns gonna bun, and also that he's on a diet. I've never had to do so, but it seems to me that a wobble teaser would possibly be a good way to make pellets quite interactive and make him work just a bit for them. He's a big boy so he won't have any trouble throwing it around.
In my experience, my bunny didn’t like his bowl and found it easier to get to the “good parts” of his food if it was all over the hay. He may not like the bowl.
Because he can :) Bunnies like entropy
He just bein a goofer? He's slightly overweight and me and my girlfriend have been diet watching, just really hoping he's not too hungry. He's about 11.4 pounds and all we're looking to lose is the 1.4 lbs.
Most bunnies seem to just do things because they can and/or because it amuses them. If the bowl isn’t empty then he’s probably just doing it for fun.
The bowl was filled with hay a second before the video as he knocked it all into the corner
It's clearly blocking his path to the baseboard in that corner specifically.
Rabbits think braincells are for nerds
He has an abundance of hay in his litter box and still a good amount in his bowl. He gets fed 1/3 cup of pellets in the morning periodically until 12 and i wake up at 7. Then gets a full plate of veggies at 4-5 and then sometimes a handful of pellets or vegetables again at 8-9 in between all these times he gets new hay refilled in both the litter box and food bowl all while having plenty of chew toys.
Have you tried a toy or scatter feeding pellets instead of putting them in a bowl?
Every morning when she hears me get up my bun chucks her empty food bowl across the floor. I think they just enjoy being dramatic
this is the bun way: flare for the theatrical
One of mine does this with her water dish. Makes a huge mess. It's a really heavy dish too. Brat.
I'm an agent of chaos.
Funny, he used to do it to the water dish aswell, we made it bigger and stopped using tap water and switched to giving him the bottle watered we drink, and he hasn't done it since. Other then with the food bowl ofc haha
i just bought mine a cat water dispenser way too heavy for mine to tip
Mine did too. I had to get the kind that screw into a xpen panel. The. Attach a xpen panel to the wall so they couldn't throw them. The bowls came with inner bowls but they would throw those out, so I just use the main bowl.
My bunny used to do that so I had to change it for a bowl he can’t knock over, now he knocks his food bowl over
My rabbit does the same and it has always seemed to me that he does it for fun haha
Bunnies and containers have been in a long and brutal war for centuries. The conflict has gone on so long that no one remembers why they're fighting anymore. There is only hatred and chaos left.
i switched to big pyrex lasagna pans for water or else its immediately yeeted. not so much a concern for solids, rabbits are browsers so they want to see the food laid out 😀
I think it’s easier for rabbits to eat from a plain surface than out of the bowl, so he’s trying to get the food out
I’ve always wondered this. I switched to putting my rabbits’ pellets on a plate out of concern and they started throwing the plates lmao. I’ve concluded that it might be a combination of both… wanting to eat the food off the floor and also wanting chaos and destruction.
i'll look into this, i'll see if a more open wider food bowl would be more agreeable with him haha
This. Facts. Hard for them to get them from the bottom of the dish.
Buns like to make messes
For funzies
Most of domestic rabbits faces are too flat to be able to access food in a corner, so bunbun is spilling it on the floor.
Yes, this is the correct answer.
Does not like your interior design choices so he is redecorating
Its in his way/he doesn't like your placement and is trying to move it. Try it a few more places, he might also just keep flipping it for fun. You can give him plastic baby cups for a better flip.
Buns gunna bun...
I noticed that some of our bunnies and fosters flip their bowls because the bottom of the bowl is too slick and the pellets roll around their face while they try to eat it. They typically will eat it off the floor after that because the floor grabs the pellets a little better.
Definitely is thank you, someone else also said on here he may be trying to do something similar.
I think all rabbits do thus. All of mine have anyways lol. I had to get a water bowl the kind that clamps to the side of the cage so he can't tip it over. If I didn't I would have a mess of water everywhere everyday
throwing stuff=fun get him some stacking cups
Ours love the stacking cups. Hiding pellets under them and stacking them with pellets hidden. Sometimes we put it between two cups, one inside the other to make it harder. There’s some super cheap ones on just4rabbits. :)
Awww. His probably bored and wants to play with something
If I annoyed my old bun (came home late, fed him later than normal, tried to cuddle him when he was grumpy, etc) he would look me DEAD IN THE EYE and repeatedly tip over his water bowl 🙃
My bunny does this with his bowl (although much more aggressively) when he doesn't like what we gave him (because he's a spoiled chonk) or it's close to mealtime for him. He also does this when he wants treats. Maybe your bun bun wants treats? That or he's just being a goof
his previous owners would feed him treats all the time for anything. His diet was about 50% pellets 50% hay and they were only feeding him alfalfa hay. I know they fed vegetables but it was basically the exact same thing everyday and it was very colorful- carrots, strawberry the works-
Because they are petty tyrants.
His bowl should be a vibrant colour duhh
I may actually be doing this haha, a lot of people here are recommending a flatter more textured bowl so my bun can sift through what he wants and get his food better and the bowl im looking at is colorful
Mine does too they just love to be a menace lol
Our Rex was doing this until we gave her a plate instead of a bowl. My wife researched it and said it could be to do with whisker fatigue and it seems to have stopped it going on 8ish weeks now.
New subreddit idea. Buns hate Bowls
Because he’s an agent of chaos and destruction.
Because he can and it annoys you. Don’t be surprised to hear that noise at 3am
Because he has a brain smaller than your left testicle.
That dish looks a bit rough to lean into, try a plate?
He's being a little shit :) Buns love to throw things around, try and get him some baby stackable cups and feed him his pellets from them. Entertainment for hours. Also, learn from my mistakes, and never leave your coffee cup on the floor, or a glass of red wine, specially if you have carpet.
He’s just having fun, buns like to throw things and knock things over
"Fuck you and fuck this bowl especially"
Despite being an animal that relies on stealth to avoid predators, bunnies seem to love making noise. Those plastic keys on a ring toys for babies are a bunny favorite.
I feel like bunnies sign a contract at birth than any non-empty foodbowl must be tipped over
Some bunnies just want to watch the world burn...
Demon lolol
To be a menace
He's having a tantrum. 😄
My rabbit tends to flip his bowl when he is not satisfied with the contents or lack thereof. That means he wants something different or it's possibly just running low.
Cuz fuck that bowl that's why. Rabbits just like to move stuff around. They like it their way.
Rabbits really love interior decorating
I'm the comment that got this to 69 embrace my comment
Because why not? Lol. Mine do that all the time also. I think they just like to play and make noise with things.
Because you didn’t put his bowl in the right spot, he’s just fixing it for you :)
It’s fun!
Adorable ❤️first time seeing bunnies. I had pet bunnies b4. Loved to go collect weeping willow branches good for pain and papaya enzymes tabs for digestion. Enjoy!
I had one who found it uncomfortable to eat from the bowl, so we flipped it upside down so it was flatter and then he was happy
Mine does it when she's hungry 😂 Then when I bring her a bowl of food she trys to starting eating it out of the bowl while I'm still setting it down. Lol. Ieven take longer to set it down just to watch her.
It's bunny feng shui, quite normal.
My rabbits do this too. Once the dish gets nearly empty it’s hard for them to get the pellets on the bottom of a flat bottomed dish because of the shape of their mouth. If they can get them pushed into a pile on one side, it’s easier for them to access them.
Making a few home improvements
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All buns know the best hay is under the hay container.
For fun mostly.. my bunny also moves her empty bowl sometimes because she like to lay down in that place..🤣
Looks like he might be chinning on the bowl a bit to mark his scent? He also might just be playing with it though; my buns love to move their bowls around and mess with them, they've even chipped a couple of them in the process hahaha
they love tipping things over
I mean, my bun has all the food access in the world and he does this because he likes to be a diva. 😂
He wants to make a mess!
because bunnies are assholes. got mine a cute lil watermelon bowl and my one knocked it over and chipped it like it was nothing
Because he is a rabbit and rabbits are arseholes. I have small ceramic lasagna dishes for my terrorists, they are really heavy, like the weight of my buns and no more problems.
he is working out to get fit
My rabbits do this either
He is telling you that the hay is not worthy of his bunnitude!!
All of mine have done this. I don’t know why I bother buying them bowls
Flipping what’s in his bowl. Trying to get what’s at the bottom. That’s what I always thought my bun bun was doing. Lol.
My bunny does this because he prefers to eat off the floor lol. Everything taste better from the floor to a bunny. Have you seen those oxbow plastic eggs that you fill with pellets and the bunny can push it around and pellets fall out? It makes eating pellets interactive lol
My rabbit does this too occasionally.
Our bunnys do something similar with the little ramps that go into their cages. They push them up and drop them back down. My wife thinks they are "hiding" their hay underneath. I wonder if it's an instinct thing. They love to do it at like 4 in the morning bang bang bang.
My bun likes to bang her metal bowl on her pen (also metallic) until I refill her bowl but she always has food available 😅 she’s dramatic
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DISRESPECT YOUR SURROUNDINGS
We call this “redecorating” — my bun likes to switch up where his stuff is sometimes. I guess he disapproves of my decor choices!
When I give my baby boy his morning allotment of pellets and tsp of oats, the first thing his does is grab the bowl and sling it around then eat it all off the floor.
I call this “rearranging the furniture”
Ours will rattle the bars of the corn that goes around where he sleeps, even thought he door is wide open. He’ll one back to the pen just to shake things to express his wish to see the manager.
We have to put our rabbits pellets into a foraging Matt or he knocks them everywhere with his water doing this and makes a mush pile he won’t eat lol
My bunnies love to do this and eat the food off the floor instead. I honestly don’t know why I have bowls for them anyway. 😄 they also love to bang the bowls against each other really loud in the middle of the night. Wakes me up with heart palpitations sometimes, I think it amuses them…
It's foraging behaviour, totally normal for buns. A treat ball with his pellets in can give him exercise, as someone mentioned. Unlimited hay is great! A digging box can be good exercise, too. Rabbit.org is great for bunny info. Aww little cutie 💕
If it is anything it is him protesting his food. He may feel like it is not enough if he was on a pattern before, or just wrong in some way (flavor maybe).
Now that I’m seeing this…anyone know where I can get a super heavy ceramic crock/bowl that my 4lb mini Rex won’t throw? It’s his favorite tantrum to have but he spills so much water
They love to do that. My girl used to do it. They’re so cutes.
Cuz u locked him in a closet
They do that, rabbits are natural foragers so they just do it while feeding, nothing to be worried about. Mine will literally grab and tip her food bowl over so it spills everything out and then eat
My bunny does this with his pellets, which are the only food he gets in a dish. He’ll eat some of the pellets out of the dish, then he scatters the rest before eating them. I pretty much only use the dish for my convenience to scoop out and carry his pellets.
Disapproving Rabbits
This morning my rabbits delivered their food plate to me under the door to the bunny room - I slept in by 10 minutes 😹🙀
Just to be an asshole
Lol I thought my bunny is only one doing it xD my bunny likes to eat the things from ground so she always tips the bowl with head or paws. By seeing all those comment they all do lol
I saw you pretty much got your answer, buns gonna bun, and also that he's on a diet. I've never had to do so, but it seems to me that a wobble teaser would possibly be a good way to make pellets quite interactive and make him work just a bit for them. He's a big boy so he won't have any trouble throwing it around.
Remodeling duh!!
Mine does that with her pellets. I always just thought she wanted to move the pellets to the other side of the bowl 🤣🤣🤷♀️🤷♀️
In my experience, my bunny didn’t like his bowl and found it easier to get to the “good parts” of his food if it was all over the hay. He may not like the bowl.
He may not like eating out of the bowl. Maybe rabbits can get "whisker fatigue" the same way cats can?