To answer Olivia77 - when bunnies chew thru electrical wiring (which Trapper has done more than once) - they usually stop when they get a tingle, and it's not as dangerous as it sounds. I've gotten the same tingle from touching exposed wiring - it isn't the most comfortable thing, but it also isn't electrocution. It WOULD be dangerous if current ran through their bodies, but that would require two places where exposed wire is in contact with their bodies, and usually (almost always) there's only one place where they touch the exposed wires.

It's a complete joy to have rabbits running around freely - you have to rabbit-proof your home (block off or cover wiring and other things they might chew), and you have to give them something that they can chew on so they're not inclined to go for the wires. Most of the books about rabbit ownership cover how to rabbit-proof your home. I also had to block off one room entirely (it's an office/recording studio, and chewed wires in there would cost me a lot of money), and I simply put a blockade across the bottom two feet of the doorway.

I hope you can find a way to grant your bunny total freedom, because it is so rewarding to have a happy bunny hopping around the house.



To anyone else who is concerned about Trapper and the hamsters - his typical reaction to a hamster is to curiously sniff at him or her, but he's never shown any aggression to them, even when they sit in his food bowl and stuff their cheeks with his food.