Rex did the same exact thing a couple months ago....
[copied from an older post]:
Yeah, so my little devil bunny (aka Rex - that's him in my avatar) gotout of the pen last night. The bunnies have a pretty big dog crate tolive in, plus an excersise pen attatched to the crate that goes aroundthe front, to play in. (their home consumes a good portion of my room)There is no top to the pen, but the sides are about three feet tall andthey've never tried to jump it.
Well, about a week ago I gave them this huge carboard box to play with,about the same height as the pen, and they've been having a blast withit. They don't have enough room to work up a running jump to the top,so, again, I wasn't worried they'd escape. But last night I saw Rextry, repeatedly, to jump up through the small hole in the top (I foldedthe cardboard panels over each other, you know, so there was a smallopening)
He had pushed another, smaller box, over to underneath that opening andhad chewed it enough that he could fit through. But the way the panelsfit, they couldn't support the weight of a full-grown rabbit. So hekept falling back through. Quite amusing to see the top half of arabbit appear briefly then disappear just as fast. I knew there was noway he could get out on top, so I ignored it and went to bed.
That little stinker continued to rack his bunny brain until he came upwith another idea. Pushing that smaller box over to the side of thelarger box, he began chewing a hole in the corner, where the top metone of the side panels. About an hour later, he managed to wriggle hisnot-so-little body through, and I woke up to the familiar tick-ticksound of bunny nails on my floor. I look down from my bed and he's onhis way out my door into the living room.
My mom saw him too, and we managed to herd him back into my room andplace one very unhappy bunny back into his pen. He was pretty mad atme, but not mad enough to enjoy a few comforting nose rubs.
I covered the pen in a sheet, reinforced it with clothespins so hecouldn't try it again, and went back to sleep, an hour or so after Ihad intended to be in bed.
Silly rabbit...
~M
