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FORUM BEHAVIOR Bun is chewing cage like crazy..

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    • LizzyBunny
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        Hey everyone, I just built a huge rabbit condo for my rabbit since I thought she needed more space as I’m at school most of the day. I let her out in the mornings, evenings and whenever I’m at home. As soon as I put her back in the cage she starts shaking and chewing it so loudly that it wakes up my whole family. She has many toys, mats, hay, food, water, everything! Is it just that she wants to get out more or shes bored? It sounds like thunder coming into my house Lol!


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          Is the condo in the same room that she is let out in to run around? I used to have this problem with my rabbits when their enclosure was in the room they also had access to during their exercise times. Once I moved their enclosure to a space where they never get let out in (my basement) I never saw them chewing the bars again. Drawback is I now I have to carry them to their exercise time location but I get good sleeps.
          Alternatively, you can attach boards of untreated pine wood to the condo’s walls, drill holes into the boards and wire them to the condo for her to chew. Also, draping a blanket over the wall will muffle the sound and sometimes by having their visual blocked off rabbits quit the bar-biting.


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            She gets the whole run of my house and her cage is in an upstairs hallway. I do cover her up at night but she still seems to keep chewing. I like the boards idea, I’ve seen some condos like that too. Thanks


          • Karla
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              Could you make her a pen, so she has more room? I think Petzy’s ideas are great as well, but you just really need to make sure that it stops. I had a bunny who had no incissors, because he had pulled the same stunt of chewing the bars like crazy – they broke off and could not grow out the right way so they had to be pulled out by a vet.


            • LizzyBunny
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                I do have a spare-ish room that I could turn into a bunny room for her, I just think that she would be kind of lonely in there when I’m at school. Right now she’s in the hallway where she can see everyone who walks by to say hi. Oh poor bunny, did he/she learn to manage without them?


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                  Well, if she gets the run of the house she has no reason to accept being ‘imprisoned’ in any size enclosure, LOL. Try the boards for her to vent her frustration at. You might want to back them with cardboard to muffle any rattling sounds her board-chewing would cause on the metal bars.

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              FORUM BEHAVIOR Bun is chewing cage like crazy..