A note on punishment and animals: You can't punish animals - it simply won't work. They don't understand it - they don't link their behavior with the punishment. If you try to punish an animal, all that happens is you make the animal unhappy, and it may link its unhappiness to you, which is totally counterproductive. Punishment will also break the trust you've worked to develop. You should completely abandon the idea of punishing your pet unless your goal is an unhappy bunny that doesn't trust you. For the same reasons, you shouldn't yell at him. He's a bunny, not a human, and he won't create the cause/effect connection - he lives much more "in the moment", and all he'll understand is that suddenly you're not being nice to him. There are two things you should be doing to try to accomplish your goals of discouraging bad behavior - Positive reinforcement when you get the behavior you want - shower your bunny with love and kind words when they do what you want IF AND ONLY IF you catch your bunny IN THE ACT of doing something you don't want him doing, then you can interrupt the behavioral pattern - clap your hands, make a thump sound on the floor with your hand or foot, say in a loud voice (but DO NOT YELL "no, (bunny's name), no". The idea is to distract him for long enough that he forgets what he was up to and finds something else to do. If necessary, gently shoo him away from whatever he's doing, but don't use force or anger - you may injure your bunny, and you are very likely to undermine the trust you have worked so hard to develop It takes time, but eventually he'll learn that certain behaviors get rewarded and others get interrupted, and hopefully he'll seek the rewards and not the distractions and interference. You have to be gentle about this, or you may damage the bond you've built with him. Punishing animals just won't work, and anyone who tells you otherwise is giving you very bad advice. I can't stress this enough. I also think it's doubly important when dealing with prey animals to NOT exploit fear as a method of training, or you'll wind up with a very stressed-out pet.