Hay-stuffed cardboard tube
A paper-towel tube packed with hay, with a few leafy greens or pellets tucked inside, for your rabbit to pull apart and forage from.
What you need
- Toilet-roll tubes
- Hay (rabbits)
- Rabbit-safe leafy greens — optional
How to do it
- Take an empty paper-towel or toilet-roll tube with no glue or print on it.
- Stuff it with hay so it sticks out of both ends.
- Tuck a few rabbit-safe leafy greens or part of the daily pellet portion into the middle.
- Put it on the floor of the run or play area and let your rabbit pull, chew and dig the food out.
- Replace it when it is chewed apart or dirty.
⚠️ Safety
Supervision: Safe to leave once your pet knows it.
Use plain cardboard only: no glossy print, tape or glue. Hay should still be available as usual; this is extra foraging, not instead of the hay rack. Keep pellets to the normal small daily ration.
👀 What to watch for
A rabbit that ignores it may not have found the food yet: leave a green sticking out of one end the first time.
Try next
Cardboard box fort
A cardboard box with bunny-sized doorways: a hideout, a lookout and a chew toy in one.
Fleece digging blanket
An old fleece blanket on the floor for your rabbit to push, bunch up and dig into.
Hidden greens hunt
Your rabbit's leafy greens hidden in different spots around the run, so they have to find them.
Rabbit digging box
A cardboard box filled with shredded paper and hay for your rabbit to dig in, with a few greens buried inside.
Scatter-feed in the hay
Instead of a bowl, the small daily pellet portion is sprinkled through the hay, so your rabbit has to search for it.