You cannot “stop” chewing behavior (only the rabbit can, and at their own volition), so the best an owner can do is provide effective and enticing redirection. Your rabbit sounds very active, so she will need appropriate engagement activities to match it.

I find rabbits who enjoy carpets/baseboards are attracted to “anchored” engagement– in other words, not small fling toys, but larger things or things fastened down to give resistance (similar to the sensation of chewing up a carpet). Here are some examples with my lovely chew machine, Fable:

Fleece Digging Corner

Fleece Digging Corner
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Behavior: Digging/Adjusting Fleece Blankets
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Care: "Refilling" the Fleece Digging Corner
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Cardboard Cat Scratcher

Cat Scratcher "Baseboard"
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Behavior: Bun-struction (Chewing)
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… You can also actively engage with your rabbit to help expend the energy so she is not spending it at the carpet: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rabbits/comments/sr694b/owner_bonding_10min_of_engagement/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/Rabbits/comments/pbsvjm/redirect_chewing_energy/

My bun Dorian is occasionally a digger, so I got the heavy plastic they use under office furniture and such an put it in the areas he likes to dig (big pieces of cardboard work too), it saves the rug. I  then put a shallow  box with some old towels in it and he will happily dig there instead. It saves him just moving to a different section of carpet. Oh and he definitely knows no, he just stops looks at you and if you’re too far away to do much keeps digging.  Bunnies are very much like cats in this regard!

@Wick&Fable Where did you get the wooden bolt from? I think i’d like to try this out with my Bunny.

You can redirect them, but it really depends on the bunny. I have had some luck with “timeouts” (essentially redirecting). Not because they understood they were being “punished” for something. They didn’t. But because the “timeout” would break the cycle of constantly circling back to the same spot to chew or whatever. You have to be firm though. Grab them with purpose and confidence. Then redirect them to the desired object/toy or put them in a pen for a few minutes or whatever. Again, it really depends on the bunny and what is motivating them. In my experience though, it can help them “forget” about the dig spot for awhile. I think the chasing around the room would be ineffective.

One thing to keep in mind is that with some rabbits this can turn into a bit of a game. If your bun really likes attention, the act of you coming over to redirect them actually rewards them for chewing on something they aren’t supposed to.

I’ve had some luck with distracting the bun with a light spritz of water, in combination with many of the techniques recommended above. I would aim the bottle so it was a sprinkle of water on the bun’s ears, and I would actually try to make it seem like it was just something happening, not something that I was causing. The idea is to be annoying enough that the bun moves on to something else (like a safe chew toy), but not actually to punish the bun or make them too wet!

The other thing you can try is to clicker train some behaviors you do want to see (such as targeting to something, chewing on a specific toy, or coming to you), and then when the bun is doing something negative, you can request they do the behavior you want, and reward that instead. This way you can redirect bun to her toys without unintentionally rewarding her getting into mischief.

Also some toys that saved my carpets in the past were cardboard cat scratchers (esp the ones with different shapes), sea grass mats, newspaper paper mats, and recently water hyacinth mats! Phone books can also be really great at satisfying that urge to dig/shred.

@Wick & Fable Picked up a chew toy that has the wooden bolts on them and she definitely enjoyed tugging at it. So when Luna is done destroying it I’ll try adding the cardboard and see if she goes for that.

With Roo and Dohwa, we have found that ‘No’ and chew toys work not much either. We have placed second-hand carpets that cover up entirely the original cream carpet of our living room : ). If you are in the UK, I recommend looking for free or very cheap second hand carpets on Freecycle, Gumtree, or on a neighbourhood forum. Then, cut them up to fit the room! For very destructive bunnies, I think it may be a good idea to give them free access of only one or two spacey rooms in which you can totally transform to fit their needs. For our two gremlins, giving them a cardboard corner in the room where they get to rip up cardboard boxes + apple branches and log bridges also seem greatly cure their urge to rip the floor up. Hope this helps!!!

What I find interesting is all these youtube bunny pen/free roam videos where they have a dog pillow and a material tunnel made from fabric as well as carpet on there pen floor or rug. In reality those sorts of setups would never work for 99% of bunnies because they chew everything and there is no stopping them because that is what rabbits naturally do. They have no idea what they can or can’t chew.

I gave up trying to teach my rabbits what they can and can’t chew because no matter what you try it wont work. My bunnies have lots of things they can chew on including lots of hay and willow bark and willow trunks but they prefer to chew the base boards and door frames and any type of painted wooden corner, chair legs etc. They chewed up the couch as well.

The only solution is to bunny proof literally everything and section off areas in your home. For example if you have any antique furniture that you don’t want chew marks on put it away or section it off. Get a good nail/staple gun and some wire mesh and put that on the things to keep your rabbits from chewing them like your door frames, corners of furniture etc etc. Some people might say that it may not look nice but it works very well if you don’t want chew marks all around your home. Another temporary solution is rubbing soap on things although you have to use a rabbit safe bar of soap but that is only temporary. Wire mesh is the best way to go.

For your flooring you really need tiled flooring or some wooden boards. There are often plenty of spare left over floor tiles and other things you could use on sites like Gumtree, Freecycle etc.