{"id":26,"date":"2009-05-18T02:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T01:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2010-10-23T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T02:27:07","slug":"yellow-pages-rabbits-carpet-chewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/yellow-pages-rabbits-carpet-chewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Pages: The House Rabbits&#8217; Answer to Carpet Chewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbits love to dig! In the wild they dig burrows to live in and shallow scraps to rest\/sunbath in. Anything in their way, eg tree roots, gets gnawed through. That&#8217;s great outside but no so good when the &#8216;soil&#8217; they are digging in is your carpet and the &#8216;tree roots&#8217; are your skirting boards.<\/p>\n<p>You are not likely to come out on top of any attempt to stop your rabbit digging. Digging is what rabbits do. Instead you need to redirect the behaviour to a more appropriate outlet, are here is one solution&#8230;<!--more-->The Yellow Pages (or any other handy telephone directory). If you don&#8217;t have a spare to hand then a pile of newspapers might work as a stand in.<\/p>\n<p>If you put the yellow pages in a box it will help to stop your rabbit just digging it out of the corner and caring on with eating your flooring. I&#8217;ve used a washing up bowl.<\/p>\n<p>So, take one box\/bowl, put it in the corner your rabbit digs, add one yellow pages and one rabbit:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"yeelow pages 1\" href=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1477b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"yeelow pages 1\" href=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1477b.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1477b.jpg\" alt=\"yeelow pages 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leave briefly unattended and return to:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"yellow pages 2\" href=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1462b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"yellow pages 2\" href=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1462b.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1462b.jpg\" alt=\"yellow pages 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you prefer a little less mess then use a bigger box, a large cardboard box with just an entry hole might help keep some of the mess down.<\/p>\n<p>One crate full of shredded paper for the compost bin, ready for growing rabbit greens:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"yellow pages 3\" href=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1472b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"yellow pages 3\" href=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1472b.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_1472b.jpg\" alt=\"yellow pages 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbits love to dig! In the wild they dig burrows to live in and shallow scraps to rest\/sunbath in. Anything in their way, eg tree roots, gets gnawed through. That&#8217;s great outside but no so good when the &#8216;soil&#8217; they are digging in is your carpet and the &#8216;tree roots&#8217; are your skirting boards. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[29,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}