What sound does a bunny make?

Answer 1

Bunnies don't make very loud noises (with one exception), because as prey animals, it's been to their advantage to evolve as silent, stealthy creatures. Still, if you live with a bunny long enough, you might hear the following:

1) Grunt: Bunnies will make a very soft grunting noise to let you know that they are very annoyed or about to be very annoyed. For example, my bunnies grunt at me when they see the toenail clippers come out because they hate having their nails clipped!

2) Derisive snort: Some bunnies will also sniff or snort very loudly at you when they are annoyed with you. As an example, my one bunny will snort at me when I try to feed him watercress, which he hates.

3) Tooth purr: When bunnies are very content, for example, when you are snuggling and petting them, they will grind their back teeth together gently. It's a very soft sound; you are more likely to feel a vibration in their jaw then hear a sound, but once in a while, you can hear it very faintly.

4) Tooth grinding: When bunnies are very sick or in a lot of pain, they'll grind their teeth more noisily, such that you can hear it from a few feet away. If you hear this noise, take your bunny to the vet right away!

5) Oinking: Bunnies who are trying to woo a mate (which may be you, if they don't have a bunny friend), may make a sound that sounds a bit like a pig oink. It's different from the displeased grunt. The displeased grunt comes from deep in the throat, where the oink is more nasal. Even bunnies that are spayed or neutered (which any pet bunny should be, by the way), can make the oinking noise, but not all bunnies do it. You'll usually hear it if the bunny is dancing figure-eights around another bunny (or your feet), which is their sort of "mating dance."

7) Scream: As others have noted, a bunny who is in mortal terror will scream a loud, high-pitched scream that sounds like a human child screaming. This scream will chill you to your bones. Hopefully, you'll never hear that, but if you do, go running to your bunny right away because something is very, very wrong!

8) Thumping: As others have noted, bunnies will sometimes thump their back foot loudly (like Thumper in "Bambi.") Thumping can mean one of two things: 1) It can be a warning to other bunnies that something isn't right, like "stay in your hole, I smell a predator near by," or 2) It can be a warning that the bunny is impatient or pissed off about something. In my experience, bunnies will often thump at you if you are about to pick them up and they don't want to be, or if you are in their way and they want you to move.

9) Other assorted non-verbal noises: Bunnies are very bright and if you live with one long enough, it will figure out that people respond more to noises than other bunnies do, and it will devise ways to use noise to get what it wants. My bunnies usually have some type of jingly toy in their cage at any given time. When the bunnies hear my alarm go off in the morning, and hear me start getting dressed and moving around, they start jingling their whatever sort of toy they have with a bell, just to be sure I know it's bunny breakfast time. And when I get home, if I don't immediately go to open the cage to let him out, my one bunny, Nibbles will start biting the bars of his cage to get my attention.

Answer 2

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A wee bunny will make a soft chattering sound with his teeth which can be heard by other bunnies especially if your bunny is playing in the yard - eating your flowers. A bunny will scream if he's being killed - I once heard another small rodent scream like that. It's pretty blood chilling. And of course the bunny will thump with is back legs if danger comes!!! Listen for the THUMP - and clear the area! A fun bunny game - get down on the ground and have your hand "walk" toward the bunny as if it was a giganitc spider. Sometimes the bunny will attack!!

Answer 3

Bunny Noises

Answer 4

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/4p1q5

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 5

Male rabbits make an interesting sound after they are done mating. Then they fall over on their sides and just lay there for a while. The sound is a cross between a loud grunt and a sqeal. Other than that, unless a rabbit is hurt of scared it doesn't make much noise. Like the other answers...that scared noise is a bloodcurdleing one, a lot like a little child. Very sad.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

They grunt, which is sometimes meant as a warning that they might bite. But with our bunnies, it usually means, "I want what I want and I want it NOW!" Heh.

They also lightly grind their teeth, usually when they're content or happy, but sometimes (and our bunnies have never done this) when they're annoyed or nauseated.

When they're in severe pain, or they're dying, they will let out a loud, high-pitched scream. I heard it once on TV and hope I never hear it from either of our bunnies.

Answer 8

It doesn't make any sounds except for when it's scared, and then it makes a high-pitched scream. It's the most bloodcurdling sound you'll ever hear. I'm absolutely serious I had a bunny and a dog chased after him. He screamed and died! Bunnies do that and I was so sad....

Answer 9

Yes, they scream, and it really is the most blood-curdling sound you'll ever hear.

But no one's mentioned growling. My sister had the most unfriendly rabbit I've ever met, and it growled and barked, kind of like a dog. It would hide under the bed and if you tried to reach in and get it, it would lunge at you, making a gruff, throaty barking type of noise, followed by a low, rumbling growl.

Also, they occasionally chatter their teeth and make a low chirping noise. I think my sister's rabbit made this sound when it was particularly annoyed with us, but not quite ready to bite our fingers off.

Answer 10

That depends. When they are scared, they can put out a blood curdling scream, if they are trying to "woo" a female, they stomp their feet, since they have actually 3 sets of teeth, they have a tendancy to chatter those also.