Hi all,
I apologise in advance for the long thread but I need help.
We adopted a female bunny back in January and instantly fell in love her.
We originally got her a two story hutch in our downstairs extension and she had time out in this room(no problems)
we then did more research and got her an x-pen around 4 by 2 foot with free roam time around the living room,dining room and her room(a converted conservatory) from then she was horrifically destructive, she would destroy everything.
I thought maybe she needed more room so we upgrade to a 6 by 2 foot pen and tried around 4/5 different flooring as each time she chewed and stratched at it.
It got to the point, after 10 months of her destroying everything we gave her, we were considering re-homing her.
I absolutely wanted to try everything before we did so we adopted her husbun, the bonding process went amazingly and they now live happily in a manor pet housing pen 6by 3 foot pen with around 2/3 hours free roam time.
However, not 2 weeks later she has again started destroying things again, more so digging at random corners all over the house and chewing her lovely new pen.
I feel like we have given her everything she could possibly want for and she is just slowly destroying our home.
I give her new toys every other day, some in the pen and different ones outsides for "play time" she has 24hr access to hay and water, a digging box and more tunnels than I can count. I just don't know what else I can do for her, I knew rabbits were destructive but it's like she's got the devil in her sometimes.
My absolute last option is to put her back up for adoption because she is such a loving little bunny but she has me on the verge of tears most nights with her destruction.
Please can anyone advise me on what I can do.
I apologise in advance for the long thread but I need help.
We adopted a female bunny back in January and instantly fell in love her.
We originally got her a two story hutch in our downstairs extension and she had time out in this room(no problems)
we then did more research and got her an x-pen around 4 by 2 foot with free roam time around the living room,dining room and her room(a converted conservatory) from then she was horrifically destructive, she would destroy everything.
I thought maybe she needed more room so we upgrade to a 6 by 2 foot pen and tried around 4/5 different flooring as each time she chewed and stratched at it.
It got to the point, after 10 months of her destroying everything we gave her, we were considering re-homing her.
I absolutely wanted to try everything before we did so we adopted her husbun, the bonding process went amazingly and they now live happily in a manor pet housing pen 6by 3 foot pen with around 2/3 hours free roam time.
However, not 2 weeks later she has again started destroying things again, more so digging at random corners all over the house and chewing her lovely new pen.
I feel like we have given her everything she could possibly want for and she is just slowly destroying our home.
I give her new toys every other day, some in the pen and different ones outsides for "play time" she has 24hr access to hay and water, a digging box and more tunnels than I can count. I just don't know what else I can do for her, I knew rabbits were destructive but it's like she's got the devil in her sometimes.
My absolute last option is to put her back up for adoption because she is such a loving little bunny but she has me on the verge of tears most nights with her destruction.
Please can anyone advise me on what I can do.