Does anyone else have a fabric eater?

[bunnnnnnie!]

I see all these posts with these cute rugs, cute fleece beds, little stuffed animals, etc, in a bun’s habitat.  And I’m so jealous!  I can’t have any of that stuff in Zeus’s enclosure, because not only will he nibble it, but he will EAT any kind of fabric left in his cage.   Definitely not good!

Does anyone else have a fabric eating bun?  Where the cage is a no carpet.. no rugs.. no stuffed animals.. no cute beds.. zone?!  I wish Zeus could have a little fleecy bed, darnit!  

[Michelle&Lolli]

Eddie and Lolli both ate fabric. Or maybe Eddie just ate carpet and Lolli ate fabric. Maybe it was Lolli just peed on fabric. I don’t know! LOL The point is that aside from cheap area rug I used for their pen floor, neither one could have fabric. I had one of those snuggle beds for Eddie but he never used it so I ended up donating it. Lolli eats fabric as I found out the other day. She also pees on it as well. BUT the weird girl doesn’t eat or pee on her fleece blanket I use on her box. I just drape it over her box. She likes to snuggle down in it on the other side to sleep. I know she bites at it to rearrange it but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t eat it. And weirdo Eddie never ate his pen area rug but went to town on the actual carpet. Sigh.

So maybe not as bad as Mr Zeus, but I still had to be careful on what Lolli has access too. Should’ve been better about Eddie.

[MimzMum]

Mimzy cannot have fabric. Maybe it’s a lop thing. But he does have a little toy plush carrot that he doesn’t nibble on anymore. No idea why. 0_o
Pip will eat some fabrics. She’s mostly all about taking the bottoms and the stuffing out of all the bunny pen mattresses. >.< But what am I saying?…she'll eat anything…so I don't think it's just a fetish for cloth.

Fiver doesn’t eat any of his cloth stuff…except for Carefresh, he would eat that. It’s not really cloth, but it’s soft like it, so I am surprised he doesn’t eat other cloth things. (I’m NOT complaining though!) ^_^

My buns all eat plastic though. VERY distressing…there is not a piece of their night habitats, their litter boxes or some of their xpen that hasn’t been sampled or outright destroyed.

[lashkay]

Like Lolli, my Petie leaves his soft fleece baby blanket alone except to rearrange it. I share bunnnnnnnnie’s passion to give my bunnies a nice cozy nest to snuggle in and I just bought a very soft spongy bolster bed for him. Like bunbuns’ Lolli’s box, I draped the fleece baby blanket over the bed making a little oval indentation to conform to the contours of the bed. He liked to sleep on the fleece baby blanket when it was on the bare linoleum floor of his pen, but maybe with the bolster bed underneath, it’s become too warm for his taste and he prefers to sleep on the bare linoleum or on the roof of his wooden timberland getaway. As long as he has the option of the blanket, I leave it to him to decide when he’s too warm to want it or when he doesn’t mind stretching out on it. Thankfully, he doesn’t chew nibble or eat the soft fleece baby blanket, just rearranges it sometimes. Something you could try with Zeus is giving him a soft fleece blanket or similar bed that has been sprayed with Bitter Apple Chewing Deterrent Spray and allowed to dry and see if he still attacks the fabric. If he doesn’t chew it but lies on the bed, you might want to spray it with the Bitter Apple from time to time as needed. On the other hand, he might not want to lie on the Bitter Apple-sprayed fabric because it might interfere with his grooming of his fur. I don’t know. It’s just something that occurred to me. I’m going to have a fleece indentation bed made stuffed with dried chamomile flowers and see how that works out. Dried chamomile would be harmless if they ingested some, in fact some stores sell it for bunnies to nibble on, similar to dried rose petals. We bunny lovers want our babies to be comfortable and snug.

[peppypoo]

This is definitely a problem with Peppy as well. She will tear at/eat carpet, rugs, and towels…so I can’t use any of these things to floor her condo . However, she does seem to be okay with the spare t-shirts (and my boyfriend’s old boxers, lol) that we put in her cage as toys…she just kind of bites at them and tosses them around, but I don’t think she’s eaten them. I guess plain cotton cloth is okay, but anything fuzzy = nom nom nom. I share your frustration at not being able to give my bun a nice cute little bed! Tried giving Peppy a spare pillow, but she just peed on it lol. And If I lay out cloth in her sleeping area, she just pushes it aside…she seems to really like to lay down on smooth plastic. Silly bun…

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