Many new rabbit owners worry that house training will be difficult, but rabbits naturally prefer clean living spaces, which makes training much easier than you might think.

Barbara Heidenreich is a professional animal trainer who’s worked with everything from exotic birds to lions, and has always had a special fondness for bunnies – as a child, she had them as pets.

Training a rabbit to hop competitively is harder than it sounds. Rabbits may hop instinctively, said Joan Knoebel of La Porte City, but trying to get one to follow a course and jump over obstacles of ...