Digging, please help!

[CookiesandCream]

My 8 month Mini lop is obsessed with digging and it’s driving me crazy in the last few weeks I have gone through two bit of carpet that were in the bottom of her cage and now I have a sheet of lino that I’m sure you will start getting through soon, she has one corner on her cage that is always the target so i tried giving her a piece of cardboard with lots of wood blocks etc tied to it with bits of string and she loved it but it only lasted 30 min and she was down to the lino again.

I love having her free range most of the day but I don’t have any space to put up a pen around her cage so she just had run of the whole house which was fine until she started this digging, she has 4 corners in the house that are her main targets and no amount of yelling, clapping or water spraying gets her to stop, if I try to move her she spins around and tries to bite, I have tried putting things to stop her but everything just gets flung to the side.

We only brought our house 1 month ago and it is brand new with wood flooring and I hate hearing her scratch up our floors and chew on the baseboard. I also have a baby who is crawling so it makes it hard to put things down that will distract the rabbit that the baby wont just get into like dig boxes etc  

I have lots of chew toys that she just ignores 

[NewBunnyOwner123]

Is she spayed? Also try a phone book. Sally loves phone book! I have a digger (Sally)which phone books are good for. a tosser( Harley) which things like baby keys or balls are good for. And a chewer which cardboard or the toys you were talking about are good for. You’ll just have to try different things. Usually if it’s a particular spot on the carpet I place the phone book there and try to weigh down half the pages. (Have the phone book opened)
getting her spayed will probably help calm her down as well if she isn’t already. Try rubbing ivory soap on your baseboards

[CookiesandCream]

She isn’t spayed but is booked in, really hoping this might calm her down and I’ll try the Ivory soap I did give her a phone book in one of the usual spots but couldn’t weight it down well enough and well she picked it up and tossed it so she could get back to scratching up my floors, she is all trouble at the moment, I can not wait for spaying day

[Peony]

Sounds like you need a bigger phone book, perk i being in the city I suppose..

Anyways you can try hay mats, bend a bridge under the phone book (Be sure to get the timothy mat or something well woven, grass mats will not last long for this purpose) The Timothy hay grass mats sold here works well with mine.

 

Even in her cage (hutch) for those well attacked corners, I put a hay mat then a towel over that so she can “dig” and toss around the towel around then the hay mat protects the “flooring” of the “cage”

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