Well, the best thing you can do is try to distract her with something you want her to chew on. Some rabbits are just carpet chewers – it’s also possible she may do it for a little while, get bored and stop. I have a rabbit who is a notorious carpet chewer whom I cannot trust outside her x-pen unfortunately. She has never gotten sick from this – she mainly just pulls the fibers out and has not gotten sick from this. I would suggest that you get her a puppy pen and put a piece of linoleum down for her so she has more room and continue working with her outside by offering her chew toys and other things to distract her from chewing on the carpet but she will need constant supervision until she decides it’s not as fun as she thought it was chewing on the carpet.

was she actually ingesting the fibers or just pulling them out like Sarita said? this is a behavior that many bunnies will turn to, so distraction and bunny-proofing will be your best friend. also if she’s not spayed, that might help eliminate some of the destructive behavior, but it might not… many altered bunnies will still pull carpet.

ALOT of bunnies chew carpet. They usually do not eat it.

The best way to attack this problem is on many fronts…

Spaying-if she’s not spayed, do it as soon as possible; it cuts down or completely out, these types of behaviors.

Block off the area-even if it’s temporary (a few weeks) try to block the area she’s chewing as much as you can-heavy books, Cubes

Make the carpet undesirable-spray it with perfume, bitter apple or vinegar.

Give her better stuff to chew-try cardboard, phone books and old towel etc. (check the toy test section for ideas on home made toys!)

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Welcome!
I don’t any super new advice to add – except that I have a bunny who needs to BITE – not humans ( well maybe I get a nip when I am clearly in her way)- but part of our journey as Bun and Mom has been for me to learn the Why of Coco’s behavior.

Spaying – Yes. Helps. I lost ipod cords, camera cords, earphone before spaying.

I had to figure out ways to divert her energy with APPROPRIATE biting toys. And it takes time. I bought the Floppers Garden several weeks ago from BinkyBunny and she JUST decided to chew it last night for the first time. She ignored it until then. And last night it was like “HELLO THERE FLOPPERS GARDEN!”

Consider it a crash course in Bunny language 101!