{"id":113,"date":"2010-01-11T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-10-23T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T02:19:11","slug":"rabbit-toys-nut-knot-nibbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/rabbit-toys-nut-knot-nibbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit Toys: Nut Knot Nibbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Pet claim the Nut Knot Nibbler is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a great big ball of fun&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Pets will nibble and gnaw this wooden chew toy to reach an all natural surprise inside &#8211; a real walnut! &#8230; a perfect chew toy for rabbits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought this was going to be a hit. It got quite a bit of initial interest and a few nibbles but it soon became another of those chew toys that get totally ignored. A walnut might be a great motivator for a pet rat but I&#8217;m not sure natural, walnut, and rabbit are really words that go together?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114\" title=\"nut knot nibbler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0578c.jpg\" alt=\"nut knot nibbler\" width=\"486\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0578c.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0578c-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the problem with wooden chews is by the time the woods been dried, shaped, coloured blue, and wrapped in plastic it&#8217;s so far from an actual tree it&#8217;s lost all its tastiness. The bark also seems to be a rabbit&#8217;s favourite part and most toys don&#8217;t have any.<\/p>\n<p>A nice fresh apple branch gets much more interest. This ones had all its bark stripped:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182\" title=\"Apple branch for rabbits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_1631b.jpg\" alt=\"Apple branch for rabbits\" width=\"294\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have your own apple tree then ask around and see if you can find a friend\/neighbour with one or ask on freeads\/freecycle. Just make sure they don&#8217;t spray with pesticides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Pet claim the Nut Knot Nibbler is: a great big ball of fun&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Pets will nibble and gnaw this wooden chew toy to reach an all natural surprise inside &#8211; a real walnut! &#8230; a perfect chew toy for rabbits I thought this was going to be a hit. It got quite a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,39],"tags":[20,11,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}