Rabbit eating paint

[KendallXx]

Hi there.

I have a 10 month old rabbit and she has a weird habit which worries me.
Pretty much the whole time iv had her when she is inside she seems to love to chew the paint off the walls.
She also eats the paint if I let her,
My house is old and peels off easy in sections.
She seems to sniff out and look for parts where she can chew.
Iv had too pull the paint off some of the walls and repaint already.
Now there is one spot that she is now chewing the concrete wall.
She has other toys to play with and sticks and wood to chew but seems to love this paint.

Any one know why?

I also go a new 5 days ago, and my older rabbit was toilet trained but now poo’s all over the house and humps my new rabbit and she also sprays the new rabbit and other items.
As im going to the vet on Monday im going to ask about getting her desexed.
But was wondering if desexing is the only solution to these issues or will she stops.

[Bam]

The poop all over the place and the spraying is both driven by hormones and by the fact that there’s a new rabbit in her territory.

Girl rabbits should be desexed for health reasons, the risk of uterine cancer in unspayed does is very high. This may also help with her territorial behaviors, but there’s no guarantee of that. Desexed rabbits also react to a new bunny in their territory, although perhaps not as fiercely. You should probably keep the new and the old rabbit apart until you’ve had the older bun spayed, if she’s pestering the new-comer.

The paint-thing is tricky, because bunnies often like projects, meaning that they can concentrate on a spcific target for days, even weeks, relentlessly. I don’t suppose you could block her access to the walls? Sometimes when they’ve become obsessed with something and you block their access to it, the just forget about it after a while.

This is a really great article on the importance of providing a bunny with lots of toys and safe projects to work at:
http://rabbit.org/more-than-just-a-chew-stick-2/

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