Biting his wooden hut

[thekingofsomething]

Hello,

So my rabbit lives outside and he is 5months old now. He is biting his wooden hut or i don’t know how you call it but it is made for rabbits. He also bites his wooden ladder in his hut. He also started to eat the sides.. I give him grass + hay and food. But he isn’t eating the black ones ( i think its called fibre) at all.

regards

[Mikey]

You mention food but you dont mention toys. How many and what kind of chew toys does he have? Is he a single bun, and if so, do you plan to bond him after he his neutered?

[thekingofsomething]

Posted By Mikey on 4/16/2017 8:29 PM

You mention food but you dont mention toys. How many and what kind of chew toys does he have? Is he a single bun, and if so, do you plan to bond him after he his neutered?

He has a white block that he should be biting on, i also got him a ball but he doesn’t like it. he doesn’t like both. He is a single rabbit, i wanted to get another one but this one got ill ( snuffles)  so yeah.

[thekingofsomething]

Posted By Mikey on 4/16/2017 8:29 PM

You mention food but you dont mention toys. How many and what kind of chew toys does he have? Is he a single bun, and if so, do you plan to bond him after he his neutered?

He already got a spray before i got him.

[Azerane]

I’m assuming the white block is a salt or mineral lick. Most rabbits don’t like these and they are completely unnecessary. Get some wood chews, some wooden or wicker toss toys, willow wreaths, twig balls, hanging wood toys. Check out this page of the Binky Bunny store to see what sort of things that bunnies like: https://store.binkybunny.com/toys-c2.aspx

You can also make homemade toys, toilet paper tubes stuffed with hay with a treat hidden in the middle, cardboard boxes with the same sort of thing. A couple of pine blocks strung together with a short piece of sisal string. Rabbits like to toss and chew things. A white pages phone book to chew, dig and shred. There’s so many options for toys for rabbits.

[vanessa]

My rabbits don’t touch the “chew” blocks. They like to chew on cardboard, pine, and wood. They have plenty of toys but they still chew the inside of the legs of their wooden house and the wooden ladder – because they are rabbits and they like to chew. They don’t know that “chew toys” are for chewing, and rabbit houses are not. It’s part of being a rabbit. Definitely give them more wood and sisal chew toys, and things to toss around, and while that will help distribute the chewing – it won’t eliminate it. I used to give my outdoor rabbits empty plastic flower pots to throw around. Rabbits are chewers and diggers by nature. We can give them appropriate toys, which will limit the undesirable chewing/digging, but we can’t really expect it to go away all together.

In a few cases, some people can say that their rabbits are perfect when it comes to what they chew. But that would be the rarity. Instinct is hard to change. Of my 4 bunnies, 2 are super destructive, 1 will chew electric chords, and the other used to rip up the carpet corners. They all have plenty of toys and acceptable things to chew and even a sand box to dig in.

[thekingofsomething]

Alright guys! Thanks for the help, i might be getting some toys for him now!

[thekingofsomething]

He already got neutred before i got him, thats what i ment lol.

[vanessa]

For my outside bunnies, before I started buying them expensive rabbit toys, I used maple branches from the trees on my property. They like chewing the inch-thick maple branches. Plastic flower pots as throw toys, phone books to shred, dish cloths to toss around (will need to be washed/replaced periodically, so perhaps buy a cheap set of dishcloths), pine cones, cardboard boxes (will need to be replaced), toilet roll holders with hay in them, I also bought section of 8-inch corrugated pipe and gave them 2 foot of pipe to run through as a tunnel.

[thekingofsomething]

Posted By vanessa on 4/18/2017 10:18 AM

For my outside bunnies, before I started buying them expensive rabbit toys, I used maple branches from the trees on my property. They like chewing the inch-thick maple branches. Plastic flower pots as throw toys, phone books to shred, dish cloths to toss around (will need to be washed/replaced periodically, so perhaps buy a cheap set of dishcloths), pine cones, cardboard boxes (will need to be replaced), toilet roll holders with hay in them, I also bought section of 8-inch corrugated pipe and gave them 2 foot of pipe to run through as a tunnel.

thanks! i think i will do the toilet roll toy! 

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