Baseboard CHEWING BUNNIES!!

[tazz1227]

Hi everyone! It has been a long time since I have written. i thought I had mybunnies under control but they let me know, THEY RULE! I moved to Colorado a year ago and they did not chew in the new house. Well, 2 months ago I got deployed and the family they are staying with said a week ago they started chewing on their baseboards! I felt so bad and I have NO IDEA what to tell them to do. Does anyone know of what they can put on the baseboards so they won't want to chew them? They don't stay in a cage and sine they are living in one of the daughter's rooms, we can't block it. HELP PLEASE! They are the sweetiest bnnies and they give kisses and love. I still have another month in the desert and I don't want her to put my kids out even though she said it wasn't a problem she would just paint over it. I saw the damage they could do when we lived in Georgia! I don't want them to tear up her house. HELP PLEASE!

[Karen]

Wire shelving leaned against the baseboard will block their access to it. Blocking access is the only thing I know that will work. We, incidently, call that "custom bunny beveling."

[tazz1227]

I like that term...it makes it see "less destructive". I will tell them that option. If they weren't so darned cute...... Thank you!

[Marigold2]

That really is a cute term. How about rubbing some lip balm or perhaps a thin layer of vasoline against the wood? Something that is of couse not harmful to the bunnies. I give my bunnies emtpy boxes from the grocery store to chew on instead. Good luck.

[tazz1227]

Vaseline? Never hear that one. Does it work? I will have to suggest that too. I just don't want her to put my kids out before I return, there is a lot of snow in Colorado and they don't know how to survive. They are very "pampered bunnies"! She said it was ok and they were currently stretched out on her daughter's bed "resting". The life!

[Karen]

I wouldn't want to rub anything greasy on the wood - it will stain the wood! Hey, maybe they were just taste-testing the baseboards, and will leave them alone now anyway?