So I have this bunny. Lets call him Benny, just for arguements sake.
Benny is a rather large, big-boned bunny. (Some would say fat, but not me.) He eats anything he can find. Recently, he has eaten:
a one foot square chunk of screen
all of the plastic tubing off a bunny-proofed phone cord
the cord
his entire 1/2" thick plastic bunny shelf out of his bunny condo
I had to have the last item replaced with plexi-glass, because it’s chew proof.
Amazingly, there’s never any evidence left - he’s not just chewing the stuff - he’s acutally EATING it.
However, he never seems to have any GI upset. I monitor him. I watch him. I’ve seen him with GI upset before. (When he got a hairball after refusing to eat his anti-hairball remidy for ages - he also ate an entire geranium, which may have contributed - he peed pink for 2 days). He eats this crap and is happy as a clam.
Sure he’s not draconis vulgaris, a la Errol of Ankh-Morpork? Maybe Benny’s re-arranging his internal plumbing in order to become the world’s first jet-propelled rabbit?
Well, given the speed at which he can expell bunny pellets, I had considered this; however, I have a difficult time getting him to move, let alone fly. In order for him to get any exercise at all, I have to chase him around with a broom, fer crying out loud!
Alice,
Bunnies are amazing when it comes to what they can chew/eat and survive. My own Payton el Bun, The Prince OF Bunnies, has survived no less then 4 electrocutions when he chewd on various power cords. He has chewed and eaten about $900 worht of carpeting and chewed all the way through the floorboard in one spot.:eek: :eek: He also loves books, especially old 1st and 2nd editions of books:rolleyes: :rolleyes:.
He has chewed up 4 of my friends walking sticks as well as ALL of the baseboards on the 1st floor.
However, if you give him a piece of apple that has even the teeniest hint of brown in it, he will sniff it and then give you his What the fuck is this?!!? look and then run over and start chewing up carpet. Same thing happens if you give him a Trisket that isn’t fresh. SIGH
Actually, I think Benny’s eating problem is strongly positively correlated (we’re talking an r of about .99 here folks) with the time that he chewed through a power cord and shot himself about 6 feet accross the room.
Now Bart (my other bunny) and I just sit and stare in disbelief as Benny eats his way through ALL of the bunny food.
Since this sounds habitual, I don’t think it’s the case, but I’ll post it anyway: my bunny, at least, chews on everything if he hasn’t gotten water lately (usually because the bowl is empty, and the bottle has somehow jammed. What’s the point of having the damn thing as a backup water supply if it jams anyway?).
The weird thing is, other than that he doesn’t chew much. A little here and there, but I have to actively play with him with a stick to make sure he’s getting enough chew time in. Although he does favor the corners of books, especially comics.
Our bunny, Bulldozer, has very discriminating tastes. She turns up her nose at ordinary phone cords and prefers to dine on expensive things like laptop power supply cords, joystick cords, headphone cords and USB cables.
My bunnies ate all the plywood off the cage we kept them in. They probably would’ve eaten the metal wire too, but one died after a dinner of, uh, carrots, and the other escaped because the plywood of the cage was gone.
What is it about bunnies and phone cords? My roommate in college’s bunny, Tyrone, must have chewed his way through over a dozen. This was despite elaborate walls of furniture and boxes we would build in front of the cord. He would always find a way. Sometimes we had no idea how he got through to it, we would just pick up the phone and it would be dead. The walls would still be intact, and we would stare at him in disbelief, while he sat there with a smug look on his bunny face.
He was, however, picky about what brand of food he was given. If only they made a food that was phone cord flavor, bunnies everywhere would be ecstatic.
It’s our great misfortune that our rabbit, His Evil Demon Bunnyness, must live outside. However, he doesn’t seem to care a bit. In fact, he seems to think he’s a cat. He drinks water out of a bowl, chases birds and climbs trees. Most likely he is secretly trying to brain wash us into giving him all of the dried bananas we can find. Sometimes he gnaws on bark, but for some reason he leaves the composter alone.
He used to have pet mice…I’m not sure what that means, but I’m sure he used them as minions to carry out his evil decrees.