Free range disadvantage!!!

Ok so Buttons has been officially free range round the flat for a week now (he's pretty much grasped litter training!) and he loved being able to go under the sofa and climb on all the boxes etc under there, sadly i realised last night when there was a lot of rustling noise that he had nibbled a large hole in a plastic bad and in a fabric bag!!!!





I have put loads of toys and nibble things under there, but he's still not interested in them!! He just seems to love nibbling plastic bags and fabrics!!! Anyone got any tips to stop him? as i can't put the caging up around the sofa, as my BF will go mad and buttons hates them so much he pulls at them and the carpet to try get under there!! also i found lots of shredded bits of the bag on the floor so he at least hasn't eaten them, but i am still worrying what it would do to him if he did!!!

Id just lift as much as possible out of the little nibblers way hun. Pop some toys under there instead.

Daisy loves it under the sofa....in fact he lives under a sofa - he has a little bed under there cos he loves it so much, but we make sure there is nothing under there he could munch!

yea ive put loads of toys under there, but he really isn't a nibbler until there is some plastic around!!! he is such a little wierdo!!! He pulled the kitchen bin over the other day because of trying to attack the bin bag!!!

I have moved some stuff out temporarily, but as we are in a 1 bedroom flat, we haven't got much space to store stuff out of the way!! There is a plastic box under there which he can't do much damage to, and seems to like sitting on it, so maybe i need to invest in some more of them!!!

My little man has chewed everything in his time, including a few library books!!

Hugs

Jo xx

lizzi_blackwell3 wrote: There is a plastic box under there which he can't do much damage to, and seems to like sitting on it, so maybe i need to invest in some more of them!!!

Sounds like a plan. I have just had to patch one of the armchairs as the buns have chewed it whilst waiting to be let out and I dread these darker evenings when the curtains in front of the patio door is closed as they start playing in them and then before you know it they are being chewed.

You could try some chew stop spray, which you can get in PAH etc

Cheryl!! Thankfully buttons doesnt seem to chew the curtains (touch wood!) he just tries to climb up them!! I swear he thinks he's a cat!!

And JoeyBunsMum, I heard that spray doesn't tend to stop them, works for cats and dogs, but apparently bunnies quite like the taste!!! lol!! I bought some citronella oil to dilute and rub on the dining room table and chairs that he seemed to take a liking for and hasn't tried chewing them again since!!! typical he isnt interested in any wooden chew toys i buy him though!!!

Haha this sounds like mine. They aren't free range in the house, but have their own penthouse down the garden

They refuse a lot of chew toys and will only bother with them when they are in the way, only to pick them up and throw them.
If I'm emptying the litter bin and the dustbin bag touches the floor for more than 5 seconds they're both there pulling at it and making holes. I just stand there in disbelief as old litter and poo rolls across the floor
The hutch stairs, hutch door, ramp, chipboard wall and most impressively, one of two shed doors which is always closed, have been chewed to who knows what. I've just found recently that, that door has a huge chunk out of it and much further and you'll be able to see daylight

Have you tried a 'Chew & Chill mat' we have a couple of buns that 'trash' all the time and we get them these mat's and they love them and I have found even the bunnies that are not into toys usually love these to nibble. We get our's from the Hay Experts.

https://www.thehayexperts.co.uk/Tunnels%2C+Tents+%252526+Mats.8/Chill+n+Chew+Mat.467.html

lizzi_blackwell3 wrote: Cheryl!! Thankfully buttons doesnt seem to chew the curtains (touch wood!) he just tries to climb up them!! I swear he thinks he's a cat!!

And JoeyBunsMum, I heard that spray doesn't tend to stop them, works for cats and dogs, but apparently bunnies quite like the taste!!! lol!! I bought some citronella oil to dilute and rub on the dining room table and chairs that he seemed to take a liking for and hasn't tried chewing them again since!!! typical he isnt interested in any wooden chew toys i buy him though!!!

Trust buns to be difficult eh! Glad the citronella seems to work though