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Adelena06

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So my flemish giants likes to chew on the rugs, carpet, chairs and is still peeing on the floor! I would like to have her out of the cage at all times but with these behaviors I just cant! Does anyone have any advice?! Please help!
 
It can be very frustrating living with a destructive rabbit. Those behaviours are all natural bunny behaviour but she's expressing them in an undesirable way. What you need to do is redirect them to less destructive areas. If you get her to dig and chew and play in non destructive ways she'll be too busy to eat the table.

Try providing a digging box (deep box filled with hay/shredded paper or soil to dig in. Scatter a few pellets inside to make it more fun to forage. Try hanging some wooden chews from the table so they hand down over the areas she likes to chew - then she can eat them instead. A piece of plastic piping slipped over the legs will make it less tempting to chew them too.

Eating wood can be a sign of a bunny wanting more fibre so make sure she has plenty of hay to eat.

If you can't bunny proof the whole room then partition part off with a pen. If she doesn't get enough exercise she'll be worse when she does come out.

Is she neutered? Wee-ing all over the place can be marking which is helped by spaying.
 
How old is she? How long have you had her? And how long have you had your Lionhead? Are they bonded?

I got Mikel in August or September, he was five months old and incorrigible. Peed and pooped everywhere, chewed my couch, etc..

I had him neutered a month or so after he arrived, but he didn't settle down until just a month or so ago.

He still will put a set of poops down outside the other bunnies' pens, but they all do that -- just a territorial line. (Hard to hold a marker when you don't have thumbs, so you work with what you got). ;)

Otherwise he's been the perfect gentleman. Unlike his brother who was the perfect gentleman from the day he arrived. But Mike's got personality plus, so 'mom always liked him best.' (Sorry Zak).

They do normally poop and pee in the same places -- almost always related to other inhabitants -- so I just put litter boxes where they want them. (Who's litter training who, huh). :biggrin2:

And as Tasmin said, getting her spayed if she isn't already is your best bet. (And her's).

I also highly recommend cardboard boxes made into 'bunny forts'. I find if they're fairly elaborate and immobile, they will spend hours chewing and renovating. (I'm in the process of adding a 'how to' thread in the Library and the housing forum, stay tuned).

My guys' favourite toy is still the hay-stuffed-in-the-paper towel-roll one. Also try organic, or at least pesticide-free, fruit tree branches. Apple and pear are popular here, just scrape any lichen off and dry them out in the oven. They love eating the bark. The ones you buy from the store never seem to work, but the ones out of somebody's yard never miss.

You do have to break the carpet behaviour, she can get a blockage from the fibers. Sometimes if mine have discovered a favoured spot, all I can do is block it off with wire cube shelving panels. Once they couldn't get to their 'spot' anymore, they didn't start a new one.


sas :bunnydance:
 

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