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My rabbit, Barney, has recently started digging. He's always been a bit of a digger when he's in the garden, and I don't mind this... But over the past few days he goes off into his bed [in his hutch] and digs in the back corner. Barney uses his bed as a toilet area... in fact, when he's indoors he has to have his litter tray hidden in a cardboard box or else he'll go and find some other 'secret' place to poo in private. :roll: But over the past couple of days, he has gone into his bed, and dug to the floor of the hutch in the corner. He has also nibbled the wood there, but I'm not sure if this is a recent thing, as it doesn't look freshly chewed...
The reason I'm concerned is because my last rabbit, Bonnie, managed to do something similar. In one night she somehow bit her way through the back of her hutch... I found her the next morning with her head poking out her new 'window', admiring the view. I don't particularly want to have to buy a new hutch. So far I've just been keeping Barney out of his hutch as much as possible. But this isn't always easy due to the rain. I'm now wondering if I can put something in the way, so he can't get at the back corner of his hutch? I was considering buying wooden chewing blocks, but I don't think any glue I might use would be safe for Barney... Anyone else ever had this trouble? and if so, what did you do? :?
The reason I'm concerned is because my last rabbit, Bonnie, managed to do something similar. In one night she somehow bit her way through the back of her hutch... I found her the next morning with her head poking out her new 'window', admiring the view. I don't particularly want to have to buy a new hutch. So far I've just been keeping Barney out of his hutch as much as possible. But this isn't always easy due to the rain. I'm now wondering if I can put something in the way, so he can't get at the back corner of his hutch? I was considering buying wooden chewing blocks, but I don't think any glue I might use would be safe for Barney... Anyone else ever had this trouble? and if so, what did you do? :?