Do you or any of your friends own a rabbit?  Or are you trying to find a great way to recycle used phone books?  Then be sure to read on!

Rabbits absolutely love to tear up phone books.  If you have a phone book that needs recycling, simply rip the top cover off and place the phone book in your rabbit’s cage.  This is an excellent homemade rabbit toy that will keep your bunny busy for hours a day.

If you don’t have a pet rabbit, call your local animal shelter and ask if they would like your phone books for their rescued rabbits.  If they have never heard of this before, explain how it works and chances are they will use phonebooks on a regular basis with their rescues.

And if your rabbit needs to make a call, he or she won’t have to dial information.  (OK, so that was a little joke.  But rabbits really do love phonebooks for homemade rabbit toys!)

Several months ago I was shopping for rabbit food when I came across Sun Seed’s Sunaturals Natural Rabbit Food.  The bag was filled with all kinds of interesting little flowers and seeds as opposed to the standard “rabbit kibble.” 

Flipping over the bag I read the ingredients.  The contents of this bag almost looked like a menu for people in a health food store!  Above and beyond the natural oats and grasses, Sunnaturals Rabbit Food also includes things like rose hips, bay leaves, cranberries, red clover tops, goji berries, peppermint leaves and raspberry leaves – to name a few. 

When you open a bag of this rabbit food you can smell the wonderful mix of flowers, fruits and grains.  It smelled good to me, but what would my rabbit think?  The minute I placed the bowl of food in her cage she jumped to it and threw her face deep into the bowl.  From then on, it is a race to get the food into the cage.  She sees me coming and stands ready to pounce on the bowl.  I have often had the bowl literally knocked out of my hand and flipped over as she races for the food. 

Last month I ran out of rabbit food and had to grab a “generic” bag on the way home.  When my rabbit smelled the food she turned and walked away.  She hardly touched the standard food, making me feel so bad that I drove to my regular store to get “her brand.” 

If you own rabbits, I highly recommend you purchase Sun Seed’s Sunaturals Natural Rabbit food.  The quality is above and beyond any rabbit food I have used, the price is excellent and you can see the results first hand as your rabbit races to the food.  

Sun Seed also carries an equivalent guinea pig food that I serve to my rescue pigs.  Just as the bunny does, my guinea pigs come racing to this excellent and apparently tasty food.