#just dont wet the fur i just grab a wipe and rumple up their fur up and down to get it slightly dampened for the brush to pull thru

[spindle-and-nima]

Any shedding tips? It's so difficult to brush bunnies especially when they begin to recognise brushy time and preemptively flick their legs at you.

Tbh my bunnies are decent about this but I never pick my rabbits up for this bc they will start getting hella freaked out way more than necessary. So I get them in the carrier (takes a little cornering them in the pen and waiting for them to resign and walk in) then transport them to a higher surface like a desk with a towel on it and let them walk out onto the desk before I either brush or clip nails.

I get those bunny safe cleaning wet wipes (I think the brand was "Full Cheeks") and wipe the bunnies down first THEN brush or comb. You get a lot less hair floating everywhere and you get a lot more loose fur out. I know the bunnies hate it so I do this to just get as much possible out in one sitting and reward after with treats

Alternatively if you brush them while they are on the ground or resting, if you have a high reward treat like a tiny piece of fruit you can start doing positive associations by holding out the brush and rewarding when they touch it and moving forward rewarding when they let you touch it to their head or back or so on. Hopefully it'll result in them associating brush time with something positive