bunny agitation
2 Aug 2022 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWhat is it in the bunnies' tiny little lagomorph brains that makes them prefer chewing on cardboard and rubber-coated metal fencing material to chewing on wood when they have been given sticks?
Okay, to be fair, at the moment Rowan doesn't have a stick in the bunny courtyard, but that's just because one of them broke the stick that was there into a bunch of smaller pieces and they don't like to acknowledge sticks that don't look nice anymore. Presumably the bark also tastes better when fresh, but: can it possibly taste worse than rubber-coated metal? Also: he still chews on the fencing when he has a stick.
This doesn't discount the possiblity of bunnies chewing on fencing JUST to be dicks, which of course they do regularly. But you can actually tell the difference between bunnies chewing on fencing for fun and bunnies chewing on fencing to be dicks. They're very emphatic when they're trying to be dicks because they want to make sure you know they're dissatisfied.
(Chewing on the fencing is obviously not bad for them, it's just noisy. But surely ingesting the tiny bits of rubber that they shred off can't be GOOD for them either?)
Okay, to be fair, at the moment Rowan doesn't have a stick in the bunny courtyard, but that's just because one of them broke the stick that was there into a bunch of smaller pieces and they don't like to acknowledge sticks that don't look nice anymore. Presumably the bark also tastes better when fresh, but: can it possibly taste worse than rubber-coated metal? Also: he still chews on the fencing when he has a stick.
This doesn't discount the possiblity of bunnies chewing on fencing JUST to be dicks, which of course they do regularly. But you can actually tell the difference between bunnies chewing on fencing for fun and bunnies chewing on fencing to be dicks. They're very emphatic when they're trying to be dicks because they want to make sure you know they're dissatisfied.
(Chewing on the fencing is obviously not bad for them, it's just noisy. But surely ingesting the tiny bits of rubber that they shred off can't be GOOD for them either?)
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Date: 2 Aug 2022 08:49 pm (UTC)Is it possible that something similar happens when making rubber?
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Date: 2 Aug 2022 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2 Aug 2022 09:02 pm (UTC)I have no idea how you could test for that either, nor yet any solutions whether or not that is the problem. (No, one solution: you can try bitter apple or a similar product to keep them from the trouble spot. But if you haven't done that yet, there's probably a reason.)
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Date: 3 Aug 2022 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2 Aug 2022 11:36 pm (UTC)She was relieved it didn't electrocute itself, but not happy about having to replace an $80 Apple laptop cable twice...
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Date: 3 Aug 2022 08:33 am (UTC)