Amy27
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I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in behavior but I am really hoping to get some opinions from the medicalside of things.
Chase has become completely distructive. She has done more damage to my house in 3 months then she has in the 4-5 years I have had her. It seems compulsive. Literally, I will chase her away and 2 seconds later she is eating the carpet again. She has eaten every corner of the walls in the house. Tons of holes in the carpet. She has eaten holes in the middle of the walls and I am talking holes into the dry wall where the white dust is coming out. I have had to tape cardboard up over the walls in her room. This is not my rabbit. I swear it has something to do with her calcium or something she is missing. The vet has done tests and assured me, several times,that it isn't at all related. But as she gets worse and worse. I just believe it is related to something medically. This is not a type of destruction I have ever experiencedwith either rabbit before.Has anyone ever heard of a rabbit doing this due to a medical issue? If so what was it? Could it be something she is lacking in her system that she is trying to get from eating things?
This just seems so extreme. I have tried everything over the last 3 months and nothing has worked. She is just crazy over chewing certain things. It is almost like she can't help it. She knows she isn't allowed because if I say her name she runs. But 2 seconds later she is back to eating it. I can't leave her alone for 5 minutes. I use to be able to leave her a lone all day.
If anyone has any ideas to medically what this could be. Or if I am making excuses for my bad bunny please tell me. I want to know so that when I go back to the vet in a few weeks I can ask for certain tests to be run. I just really feel, in my gut, there is something else going on and I can't get the vet to see it. Maybe it is because her blood work has come back normal and her x-rays are okay. Not enough calcium to cause pain. I thought maybe pain was causing the chewing.
If this thread is more appropriate in the behavior section, please feel free to move it.
Thanks Amy
ETA: Chase is spayed.
Chase has become completely distructive. She has done more damage to my house in 3 months then she has in the 4-5 years I have had her. It seems compulsive. Literally, I will chase her away and 2 seconds later she is eating the carpet again. She has eaten every corner of the walls in the house. Tons of holes in the carpet. She has eaten holes in the middle of the walls and I am talking holes into the dry wall where the white dust is coming out. I have had to tape cardboard up over the walls in her room. This is not my rabbit. I swear it has something to do with her calcium or something she is missing. The vet has done tests and assured me, several times,that it isn't at all related. But as she gets worse and worse. I just believe it is related to something medically. This is not a type of destruction I have ever experiencedwith either rabbit before.Has anyone ever heard of a rabbit doing this due to a medical issue? If so what was it? Could it be something she is lacking in her system that she is trying to get from eating things?
This just seems so extreme. I have tried everything over the last 3 months and nothing has worked. She is just crazy over chewing certain things. It is almost like she can't help it. She knows she isn't allowed because if I say her name she runs. But 2 seconds later she is back to eating it. I can't leave her alone for 5 minutes. I use to be able to leave her a lone all day.
If anyone has any ideas to medically what this could be. Or if I am making excuses for my bad bunny please tell me. I want to know so that when I go back to the vet in a few weeks I can ask for certain tests to be run. I just really feel, in my gut, there is something else going on and I can't get the vet to see it. Maybe it is because her blood work has come back normal and her x-rays are okay. Not enough calcium to cause pain. I thought maybe pain was causing the chewing.
If this thread is more appropriate in the behavior section, please feel free to move it.
Thanks Amy
ETA: Chase is spayed.