Moro Ferret
Well-Known Member
So Walter has a wire fixation. Sure, most rabbits will chew wires, but he is obsessed. It's really bad. He has destroyed a few of my things, EXPENSIVE things, which I can and have gotten over, but he has also been playing chicken with electrocution, and has been really lucky to have my intervention several times.
It's more than just watching him, it takes him faster than the human mind can react for him to "chop" a cord into more than one part. He doesn't chew off the casing, he just "disconnects" the wires.
I have a play-place for them that is 100% wire free and safe, and that's great. But I like them to be with me while I watch TV or get on the computer. Walter and Bilal have been on the bed with me for hours while I have been doing school stuff on my laptop, and Walter came up to my cord. I shooed him away (and he was HARD to shoo away) and he had BITTEN HALFWAY THROUGH MY CORD. In a split millisecond. Bilal didn't care but Walter kept coming back any trying to eat my cord. I shooed him, clapped loudly and said NO!!! loudly, and he COMPLETELY IGNORED ME. All that did was upset Bilal, who was being good. And I solved it by putting the blanket over the cord but it still bothers me.
I know this is my fault, because as a bunny parent it's my duty to make sure he can't access dangerous things. I do a pretty thorough job. But I am really concerned, as none of my other three rabbits are obsessed with wires, especially not anymore so than anything else they could destroy. Walter seeks and destroys, and he is relentless. How can I get him to understand? How can I break his fixation? That's exactly what it is, a fixation. He goes so far out of his way to get wires, that it scares me, a whole lot.
I want to do more than just bunny proof and watch him 24/7. I want to know that if something happens, like he somehow gets out of the play area or some weird freak incident happens where he is in a normal room with stuff plugged in, that he won't beeline towards electrocution.
It's more than just watching him, it takes him faster than the human mind can react for him to "chop" a cord into more than one part. He doesn't chew off the casing, he just "disconnects" the wires.
I have a play-place for them that is 100% wire free and safe, and that's great. But I like them to be with me while I watch TV or get on the computer. Walter and Bilal have been on the bed with me for hours while I have been doing school stuff on my laptop, and Walter came up to my cord. I shooed him away (and he was HARD to shoo away) and he had BITTEN HALFWAY THROUGH MY CORD. In a split millisecond. Bilal didn't care but Walter kept coming back any trying to eat my cord. I shooed him, clapped loudly and said NO!!! loudly, and he COMPLETELY IGNORED ME. All that did was upset Bilal, who was being good. And I solved it by putting the blanket over the cord but it still bothers me.
I know this is my fault, because as a bunny parent it's my duty to make sure he can't access dangerous things. I do a pretty thorough job. But I am really concerned, as none of my other three rabbits are obsessed with wires, especially not anymore so than anything else they could destroy. Walter seeks and destroys, and he is relentless. How can I get him to understand? How can I break his fixation? That's exactly what it is, a fixation. He goes so far out of his way to get wires, that it scares me, a whole lot.
I want to do more than just bunny proof and watch him 24/7. I want to know that if something happens, like he somehow gets out of the play area or some weird freak incident happens where he is in a normal room with stuff plugged in, that he won't beeline towards electrocution.