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Forum BEHAVIOR Cage Chewing/Rattling

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    • pinknfwuffy
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        Hi everyone! I feel like every time I post here I have a fun new dilemma. :] My Olaf has picked up a new party trick: cage rattling. At first I thought he might be bored or frustrated, but after assessing the situation I can’t figure out what is causing it. He has a 2×4, two-level C&C cage that I recently attached a large x-pen to so he can run around. Plenty of toys (chew sticks, treat ball, hay toys, cardboard tubes) that I rotate regularly for spontaneity. I get in the x-pen with him for playtime and clicker training in the evenings. Even while I’m spending time with him, and no matter how many things he has to play with, he loves to rattle the x-pen and gnaw on the metal.

        Not only is it noisy, but I certainly don’t want him hurting his teeth. Any thoughts? So far, spray bottles and a loud “No!”/clapping has had zero affect. 


      • vanessa
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          I’ve never had a bun that rattled cages. I did have a bun who chewed through chicken wire. Sometimes once a bun finds something he enjoys doing – it’s hard to stop it. If I compare it to other things my buns do that I don’t want them to do – like digging up the carpet – all I can do is restrict their access. Perhaps try weaving cardboard or sisal rope along a few feet of his favorite part of the cage. Hopefully he’ll be happy to discover that he can destroy something while “chewing” at the fence? I’d be interested to hear what others have to say who have had bunnies rattling cages. But I suspect many of those were intact hormonal bunnies.


        • Hoppy Valentine
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            When hoppy chews or rattles his cage it just means for him he wants me to open the door so he can come out. He is a free range bunny except at night so when he sees an ounce of light with the morning he starts saying let me free by rattling the cage and making tons of noise till I let him out.


          • Mimsy
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              I do what Vanessa suggested and weave and tie things to the bars of the pen. Willow is only in her pen at night, but she seems to believe if anyone so much as uses the restroom in the middle of the night it’s time to let her out.

              I weave cardboard through the bars and use sisal to tie on rounds of pear tree to the bars. I’ve cut down twigs from our thornless rose bush and threaded that through the bars as well. She will mess with all those things now.

              Willow is young and not spayed as of yet. She will get spayed in February so we shall see if that calms her down as well.


            • pinknfwuffy
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                Thank you all for the suggestions! I will definitely try some weaving and other chewables. :]


              • pinknfwuffy
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                  Thank you all for the suggestions! I will definitely try some weaving and other chewables. :]

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              Forum BEHAVIOR Cage Chewing/Rattling