All throughout my house the walls are lined with wooden base boards and my rabbits won't stop chewing on them!!! I've given them all the hay and straw and cardboard boxes they could ever want and they still chew!!! I've tried saying "No" in a stern voice but I'm not always there to disipline them. I've also heard that the scent of tobasco sauce will stop rabbits in their tracks and it works for a couple days but after it fades they're back at it!! Any ideas would be a great help.
One is female and one male, both fixed and both adults.
2007-01-22 08:48:40 · 12 answers · asked by Liz 3 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Rabbits like to chew. With ours the only way we've found is to block off the area (use NIC panels to cover the area) or go to a hardware store and buy inexpensive wood and nail it over the base boards.
You really can't discipline a rabbit - they will stop when they hear "no" but go right back to doing it when you aren't there. Here are some tips that might help:
http://homepage.mac.com/mattocks/morfz/rabcare.html#rabhome
might help:
2007-01-22 13:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Martha G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/Oy0xT
She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.
2016-07-18 17:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep them in one room and give them plenty of these to run through and stuff. put cardboard around the base boards and tobasco sauce. if they don't chew then let them run around otherplaces to explore. if they do apply more tocasco sauce andwait until they learn that it will always be ther eand then slowly start to take it away by letting it fade more an dmaybe they won't go back.
2007-01-22 08:59:06 · answer #3 · answered by Smagdiver93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a house rabbit and to be honest im not sure there is anything to prevent them from chewing skirting boards etc. my rabbit did this for a long time but now she doesnt bother and only occasionally does it when shes angry! i think you just have to try and prevent him from going near them. i tried tree branches/sticks (apple is good) carrots etc near them so she would chew that instead but she prefered skirting boards. she did eventually get bored though so this may happen hopefully!
2016-03-28 21:33:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only things i can think of are keeping putting the sauce on everyother day for a couple months and then do it once and a while from there on. keep saying no. or put tin foil in front of the boards. they might not like the sounds. and one more thing....are thay not in a cage? u can get indoor cages adn then put them in there when u r not home or there to watch em.
hope this helps.
2007-01-22 08:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by wonderbunny22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might already know this: rabbits teeth never quit growing so they will have to have wood or something like that to chew on, maybe place pieces of wood around where they are already chewing so they can find them or place them by their feeding dishes. good luck.
2007-01-22 09:28:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like classic rabbit behavior. Time for steel wainscotting all around the house.
2007-01-22 10:51:43 · answer #7 · answered by Rachel R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok i recomend buying a pen to put them in. they can get reall large too so they have plenty of space to run around- if you keep them out they are bound to chew something- its what they do- you have to train them not to and give them a tap on the nose if you catch them. have you tried giving them wood blocks to chew on instead? you can even get flavored kinds so they prefer that wood instead
2007-01-22 09:05:20 · answer #8 · answered by mandi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put them in a large cage so that they can still have room to exercise but cant chew your base boards
2007-01-22 10:46:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try using bitter apple spray. Dogs and cats don't like it and it might just work. I don't know of any pet that would like the bitterness of it. You an find this readily available in pet stores.
2007-01-22 08:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by gotchagood 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋