Nice! That bunny is very trainable for sure. Rabbit's name?
Look at the focus! Look at the walking! Great jumping, I love the little hoop.

It's hard to train when you're standing, for me and Toby at least.
I have to be on the floor in the beginning of trick training with the rabbit.

The round about was easy to train,
just hold the raisin to the bunny's right, so they have to turn
to get it,
then keep turning it so they have to spin.
I also make a hand gesture, like a little finger circle before doing it.
It only takes a day or 2. Bunnies definately prefer one direction over the other.
We can't get Toby to go counter clockwise.

I have a few other tricks which are easy to do.
"kisses", involves you holding a long sliver of a raisin outward in your lips, and they will come up
and "kiss ya" Very cute

Been working on "GIMME 10" a version of Shake hands...
when you hold the raisin up in the air, and they have to put their paws in your hand to support themselves.

Follow the Carrot involves me putting a raisin on the end of a wicker carrot we have, and he
will follow it wherever I put it.
After awhile, the raisin gets removed, and is only given at the end of trick.

Been trying a few others, like "crawl", and "bring me the raisins" where he brings the raisin container.
and "hop up" onto a step. He's a work in progress.
I really want to get him to "flop" on command, but that might be really hard.

Toby gets so excited for treats that he starts doing random combinations of tricks,
and I encourage him. Now that's a thinkin' bunny.
He'll spin, then jump over my legs, then go under my legs, all in one trick.





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