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Booby traps - in my own home! aerocontrols Send a noteboard - 03/09/2026 05:50:24 PM

My wife convinced me that we needed rabbits a few years ago, so we got one. Then two. Then she joined a rabbit rescue organization and we fostered a few until they could find homes for them. Now we have three of our own and one foster that we'll probably adopt if we can get him to pair bond with Bunny 3. Pair bonding adult males (even fixed ones) is hard, though. So that may not work out.

Anyway, they chew. Bunny 1 and Bunny 2 are boy/girl and pair bonded, and they live in our kitchen and day room. The girl is a little monster (her name is (Barbeque Bunny - Barbie for short) but my wife calls her Cruella. She chews our house and other property, has had dozens of fake pregnancies*, bites, fights, and backslides on her litterbox training. The boy (Bunny Stew, Stu for short) is much less destructive, never bites except to playfully nibble in a way that never hurts, and only ever destroys phone and laptop cords if he can find them. Pretty easy to make sure he never can since he's stuck in 3 rooms, essentially. My big worry is that these rabbits both want in the laundry room, which is essentially an extra-wide hallway between the garage and the rest of the house. We have to keep the door closed when they're loose to keep them out of there because they both chew and there is a VERY dangerous cord between the wall and the dryer.

Bunny 4 (our foster) is named Bucky and he's the absolute sweetest. Likes to be petted and seemingly NEVER chews anything he's not supposed to. He lives in our youngest's room (all kids are out of the house, but we haven't downsized yet). We can leave him alone in that room 24/7 and he won't destroy anything.

Bunny 3 is named Mushroom (Shroom for short) and he is fairly non-destructive. He's also the cuddliest of all the bunnies. He will let us pet him for a very long time, and will lay beside us on the bed. He sometimes forgets his litter training when he's mad at us, and will definitely chew cords. He lives in our bedroom and it's hardest to keep cords away from him. I put cord protectors on cords that MUST live on the ground all the time, and we put our laptop and phone/earbud charging cords away when he's loose, mostly. Anyway, he did nick the 120V cord that goes from the plug to my laptop charger, which is how I got booby-trapped. I reached down to unplug that cord and put it away so he could come out of his pen, and the open wire shocked the crap out of my bicep. I just feel like if HE would have that happen to him when his teeth are slicing my cords, it would teach him not to chew cords.

But bunny behaviorists claim that negative feedback won't teach bunnies anything, so I guess he'll just keep eating my cords forever. Luckily the AC cord is the cheapest part of the charger, and can be had for like $5-6 on Amazon.

The bunnies mostly like the dogs, and our larger dog is indifferent to them (she's old so she sometimes growls at them if they touch her, but she wouldn't chase or hurt them. The smaller dog is frightened of them, mostly in the sense that he knows he not allowed to hurt them and he doesn't like getting yelled at by us for being aggressive toward them, which has resulted in him wanting nothing at all to do with them.

Anyways, that's my rambling. Don't get bunnies, is my advice. They're a lot of trouble.

*Building a nest/making a mess with chewed paper, stuffed animals, and her own hair, then defending the nest aggressively until she realizes she's not actually pregnant. Then she abandons it and we can clean it up.

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.
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