We had a VERY naughty Bun today.

Coco had been peeing in her pellets/on her food. Which I thought – Wierd, until I realized that I had taken down her favorite Chew toy ( our long cotton canvas curtains) to hem them, as she had gnawed them to ribbons. Literally.

So I offerred her the extra – hung it over the side of the cage, thinking she would like to continue to bite it ( she isn’t eating it, as she leaves all the confetti bits on the floor). No. Not interested. Could care less about her formerly FAVORITE thing.

So I bought her an Oxbow Habitat thing – one of those bungalows ( which in Canada cost me close to 40 bucks!). She seems to be interested in it. I see her biting the opening with relish and think “You are SO smart Dawn to buy her this Giant Timothy Hay Condo – now she can CHEW and she gets sneaked in hay and nutrition!!”

At about 11 last night, my husband yells in from the living room. Our digital TV has gone down out there. Is mine working? Yep, I say…thinking nothing of it.

This morning I see Coco sneak off behind the bed. I know there is nothing back there now that the delicious curtains have gone.  My teacher  instincts know that she has now been gone tooooo long and it is tooooooo quiet. I walk over to the edge of the bed……

where I find she has DUG the cable for the satellite out of the wall and is Munching down on it. It is the one cord  I didn’t cover with the black plastic, as it was embedded INTO the wall! I shout “BAD GIRL” and shoo her out from behind the bed…then proceed to barricade the area until I can dig the cord out and repair and cover it.

By the time I get home, the little weasel has found an alternate way ( under the bed) where I catch her sticking her nose up from the bottom of the heater, lipping her way towards the cord. Seriously. Two Rabbity lips moving around, reaching for the cord. No eyes. Just whiskers and lips.

I shout ‘”NO COCO!” and reach my hand down to move her away- and she nips me. The husband runs in – sees that the reason his satellite went down is Rabbit in nature, gives her the “BAD RABBIT stare” and I proceed to spend the next hour digging cable out of wall and covering it with black plastic cord protector.

She comes over to investigate and looks at me – disgusted – and bites the edge of the mattress ( where I had previously applied oil of Lavender to dissuade her from eating the mattress)

Now, she HAS grass mats, she HAS willow balls, and  pinecones and all sorts of chew toys, but she is clearly a Chewer with a fetish for a certain texture. She doesn’t yet chew on the black plastic cord protectors ( Huzzah!) or wood but I fear the future, friends.

I have tried the perfume thing…( with the lavender oil) and she is now pulling on the satellite cord, trying to figure out a way to get the cable out of the plastic.

help!!