What are some safe, homemade toys and chewing options for two rambunctious house rabbits?
I have two house rabbits and they both love to devour anything that happens to fatefully fall within their grasp. They have free range of our upstairs and love to chew on our baseboards. I know rabbits are supposed to have a lot of inventive toys and chewing options but what is something I can give them that is cheap and will amuse them. I heard somewhere that a big phone book is a good idea, but is eating that much paper really safe for them? What other kinds of paper can I give them and will ink harm them?
I stuffed crumpled newspaper into a small space to keep them from getting into unwanted areas where they chew my carpet and get stuck, but they immeadetly had a lot of fun pulling it all out and getting at the carpet again. Is there anything else I can stuff back there that they won’t take out but is still safe for the occasional nibble? What can I do with newspaper which they seem to love to play with? Thank you so much!
Try cardboard boxes.
Take a box that’s just big enough for them to crawl in… cut a door into it and its something they can hide in an chew on and rip apart.
Other nice things are cheap wicker baskets. My Gabby use to love chewing up my wicker baskets… so finally I had to buy her one of her own so she’d leave my expensive ones alone.
I bought an untreated cheapie small little one, filled it with her timothy hay, and it was a great toy / treat.
Instead of crumpling up the newspaper… lay the news paper out and let them rip it apart, shred it, tear at it.
Make the newspaper into a tent. They love things they can crawl into and tear apart at the same time. Or things they can throw around and chew.
Phone books are also good, they chew down their teeth on them.
My rabbit never actually ate the paper. Usually they’ll chew it, rip it, but eventually they spit it out. If you have a problem with them eatin it… I’d go with the wicker basket/hay idea.
Sadly- Carpet is always going to be a temptation for them. When Gabby was a baby- I had to pull out my carpet in the living room (where she had free rein to run around as she pleased) and put in all hardwood floors.
So these are going to be distractions- but not cure alls for carpet pulling. if carpet chewing gets too bad, you’ll have to find another area for them to play in… baby gate them into a room without carpet if you have one. not only is it bad for the look of your room, but its bad for their stomachs as they will not be able to digest carpet and it will turn into something that may need to be surgically removed if they eat too much of it.
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