Funny, my 15 year old cocker spaniel is watching my son sleep so I am getting a kick out of these replies.

/yeah, right behind me, she will not leave his side while he is asleep.
/Cocker Spaniels are very very loyal

Heh heh ... Poobah. Greatest rabbit name ever.

/Seriously thinking I need a rabbit soon, just couldn't stand the idea of a caged animal... this litter box training you speak of gives me great hope. Anyone have a rabbit AND cats? Wonder if that would work out.

1lastcall: Heh heh ... Poobah. Greatest rabbit name ever.

/Seriously thinking I need a rabbit soon, just couldn't stand the idea of a caged animal... this litter box training you speak of gives me great hope. Anyone have a rabbit AND cats? Wonder if that would work out.

Depends on the cat. If you get a rodent or similar animal at the same age you get a cat and they grow up together then they will get along. I got my dog before I got a cat and ferret. Cat and ferret at the same time right after weening. My dog picked up the role as a stand in mother.

that kid's stupid haircut is stupid.

serpent_sky: Rabbits are odd like that; When I was in my early 20s, I had one who roamed free in my house. You'd think that would be a problem, what with rabbit poop and all, right? No... he started copying my cat and used a litter box.

He always ate rabbit food, but the dude was 100% litter box trained and would even do the scratchy stuff to cover his poop. He was awesome.

/Don Juan is missed.

You let the cat and rabbit roam together? The rabbit was alright with that?

When we had rabbits we would let them roam around the house. One of them was very clean and always went back to his hutch to poop, or had a special place upstairs. He would also knock over mostly-empty cups of coffee or tea to drink the dregs. Awwwwwww.

Too bad it didn't take after a retreiver, would've made good hasenpfetcher.

I feel bad for the dog. The rabbit gets his biscuits?? Cesar Milan would be offended...

My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

1lastcall: Heh heh ... Poobah. Greatest rabbit name ever.

/Seriously thinking I need a rabbit soon, just couldn't stand the idea of a caged animal... this litter box training you speak of gives me great hope. Anyone have a rabbit AND cats? Wonder if that would work out.

3 Rabbits and 1 cat live with my GF and her roommate. The rabbits are respectively 1 1/2 years old (7lbs) and 2, 6 month out rabbits. The cat is a 9 year old from the pound, former out door hellion. He gets along great with all of them.

Oh please. He can't be that b--OH GOOD GOD.

serpent_sky: Rabbits are odd like that; When I was in my early 20s, I had one who roamed free in my house. You'd think that would be a problem, what with rabbit poop and all, right? No... he started copying my cat and used a litter box.

He always ate rabbit food, but the dude was 100% litter box trained and would even do the scratchy stuff to cover his poop. He was awesome.

/Don Juan is missed.

I've been told by other rabbit owners that their pets do that as well. It surprised me.

clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

No idea, but I'd probably try something bitter instead

tbyte: clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

No idea, but I'd probably try something bitter instead

Tried the bitter apple spray doesn't even slow him down.

clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

Ask your wife to shave the carpet.

clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

Buy something meaner than a spaniel. The dog will eat the rabbit, problem solved.

// poobah needs a little life lesson from an alpha dog.

clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

I don't know, but I had a dwarf dutch rabbit eat every button on a remote and he chased our lab around and nipped at the back of her legs. He also screamed once. Scared the everliving hell out of me.

clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

Does he have enough appropriate chew toys? You know a rabbits teeth are always growing, they have to chew to wear them down. Your local pet store should have some wood blocks for rodents.

The confused rabbit has copied Scout's behaviour to such an extent that he even gets up on his hind legs and begs for snacks.

Is this suppose to be an odd behavior? Both of my sister's rabbits can do that if they want a treat. Actually, I'm amazed by some of the things my sister's rabbits have learned. One of them even learned to hop up a 10 ft spiral staircase.

Bunnies are known to be 'alpha' to other house pets. These two look like good friends, it's cute.

half-mad-genius: Does he have enough appropriate chew toys? You know a rabbits teeth are always growing, they have to chew to wear them down. Your local pet store should have some wood blocks for rodents.

Yeah but he only chews on them for a little while then it's back to the carpet

Biscuit fed rabbit?

Hossenpfeffer!

What the rabbit might look like.

My god, it's General Woundwort. I wondered when he would turn up. It seems the years have mellowed him.

This is pretty normal. Bunnies aren't exactly smart animals (as the owner of two).

clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

i can help.
you'll need:
-a bag of pine shavings.
-a handful of carrots.
-a shotgun.
-a dutch oven.
-a bag of flour.
-handufuls of seasonings.
-bunches of celery, carrots and onions (green bell peppers if you're a coonass).
-a source of heat.
-welding gloves.
-a bottle of wine.
-goggles.
-a hatchet.
-case of beer.

get that together and we'll move to step:2.

The carpet eater in question he also recently ate up a pair of my jeans. He stands on his hind legs and walks a couple of steps for a treat.

can help.
you'll need:
-a bag of pine shavings.
-a handful of carrots.
-a shotgun.
-a dutch oven.
-a bag of flour.
-handufuls of seasonings.
-bunches of celery, carrots and onions (green bell peppers if you're a coonass).
-a source of heat.
-welding gloves.
-a bottle of wine.
-goggles.
-a hatchet.
-case of beer.

get that together and we'll move to step:2.

Sounds good but it is my wifes rabbit and I have to suffer the consequences.

Well you can't really blame him. After all, who doesn't like to munch carpet?

For a better idea of what I'm dealing with

What the rabbit might look like.



I wonder if this rabbit can be taught a few tricks...
(GIS)

half-mad-genius: Well you can't really blame him. After all, who doesn't like to munch carpet?

Yeah but that my job.

clusterfrak: can help.
you'll need:
-a bag of pine shavings.
-a handful of carrots.
-a shotgun.
-a dutch oven.
-a bag of flour.
-handufuls of seasonings.
-bunches of celery, carrots and onions (green bell peppers if you're a coonass).
-a source of heat.
-welding gloves.
-a bottle of wine.
-goggles.
-a hatchet.
-case of beer.

get that together and we'll move to step:2.

Sounds good but it is my wifes rabbit and I have to suffer the consequences.

oh!!
so, you care?

i was under the general 'fark' impression that you were looking for recipes.

Hey! Fark you, subby!

clusterfrak: For a better idea of what I'm dealing with

Good lord, just let him eat the carpet.

/Scared of clusterfark's bunny.

half-mad-genius: clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

Does he have enough appropriate chew toys? You know a rabbits teeth are always growing, they have to chew to wear them down. Your local pet store should have some wood blocks for rodents. Lagomorphs - beaver family. That's why their teeth continue to grow.
Flopsy needed an orthodontist.
After a few trips to the vet she taught us how to trim his teeth with diagonal cutters. Poor little guy had a rough life but lived to about 6. He liked soft food obviously. It was always funny watching him slurp spaghetti.

/not sure why I did this

fasahd: half-mad-genius: clusterfrak: My wifes rabbit will not stop chewing the carpet. I have tried sprikling cayenne pepper, and paprika it just makes him want to eat it more. Anyone have any good ideas?

Does he have enough appropriate chew toys? You know a rabbits teeth are always growing, they have to chew to wear them down. Your local pet store should have some wood blocks for rodents. Lagomorphs - beaver family. That's why their teeth continue to grow.
Flopsy needed an orthodontist.
After a few trips to the vet she taught us how to trim his teeth with diagonal cutters. Poor little guy had a rough life but lived to about 6. He liked soft food obviously. It was always funny watching him slurp spaghetti.

I was wrong. Beavers are rodents not lagomorphs. The post was about carpet chewing. I don't know how I ended up on beavers.

Otto's_Jacket: /not sure why I did this

Not sure why I came for this, but I'm leaving satisfied.


/that is strange...

Galactic_Empanada: Otto's_Jacket: /not sure why I did this

Not sure why I came for this, but I'm leaving satisfied.


/that is strange...

At least you came.


/when you're a stranger

Otto's_Jacket: /not sure why I did this

Me either. Burgermeister Meisterburger!?

40 watt range: stupid

Brings back painful childhood memories does it?

Tell Doctors Fark and I, all about your pain.

/grammar?

I got Mo Bunny in college. He was maybe eight years old, litter trained, and would wear a harness. Knew immediately he would be a chick magnet, and was he ever! Also let him roam free. Moved back to California with my parents after school, and he rode uncajed cross-country in a motor home with my folks' lab and crazy-ass manx. Lived with them for a bit, too. Sadly, had to shoot him after he developed "head-tilt," an apparently common rabbit condition with several causes, to the point that his vertigo was so awful he just rolled around until tired, took a few panicked breaths, and did it all over again.

oh, as far as keeping him off of the carpet, good luck! Maybe dried ground tomato leaves would be better than peppers. That shiat is poisonous and they WILL NOT eat the leaves.

Er... That should be "uncaged."

1lastcall: eriously thinking I need a rabbit soon, just couldn't stand the idea of a caged animal... this litter box training you speak of gives me great hope. Anyone have a rabbit AND cats? Wonder if that would work out.

I myself had a Netherland Dwarf rabbit, uncreatively named Thumper by my little brother, who spent the last seven and a half years of his eight-year life in the company of housecats. Because dear old Thump was older than the kittens at first, and slightly larger, he did not fear them, and they quickly assumed he was one of them.

That's the secret, really. If a prey species acts like a social equal, most young cats assume it is a social equal, if not an honorary cat, and treat it accordingly forever after.

As time wore on, Thump's cage became merely a voluntary refuge as he ate with the cats (kibble, kibble, pellets n' salad, kibble, kibble,) used a litterbox and even snuggled with his 'siblings' on the furniture. There was even a glorious wood-and-rope sculpture, a homemade present to my pets from a boyfriend I eventually married, which Thumper gnawed and the kitties scratched. Every year he makes another, but as of this past March, it will be gnawed no more.

We knew Thumper was getting old when Boots took to joining him in the cage and shepherding him about the house. When Thump finally passed away, the cats were clearly as heartbroken as the humans. They kept nudging him and meowing, as if trying to make him wake up, and when it didn't work, Boots and Shadoe finally curled up around their old friend and purred.

We buried him in the backyard, amid the hamsters, gerbils and goldfish of three kids' childhood, but the cats refused to let us give up his cage. I scrubbed it out with bleach and baking soda and finally my husband suggested we cut some carpet scraps to line it and make it a cat condo. Boots and Shadoe sleep on or in the cage every day, in the patch of sun their long-eared friend was always eager to share.

I think my parents were more upset at Thumper's passing than the three of us moving out and, in my case, marrying. Little do they know what we've planned for their Christmas gift -a fuzzy, gray tailless kitten from the shelter who looks like what would've happened if Thumper and Shadoe had not been of different species, fixed, and the same gender. (Lord knows they attempted it.) My brother and his boyfriend bought a new automatic litter box, my sister bought the new arrival's collar with engraved ID tags, and my husband and I paid the adoption and neuter fee. We're all five of us taking turns putting the little fellow up and keeping this huge secret -and my sister recently let a nice young man she's been seeing in on it, so we may be six shortly.

So far we call said kitten 'Pixel.' (My brother's creativity has improved somewhat as regards pet naming, though not much -the little guy does look like a stuck pixel when he sleeps on a solid-colored bedspread.) Pictures would follow on Caturday, but that's the one time my mother seems to notice Fark.com's existence.

1lastcall: Heh heh ... Poobah. Greatest rabbit name ever.

/Seriously thinking I need a rabbit soon, just couldn't stand the idea of a caged animal... this litter box training you speak of gives me great hope. Anyone have a rabbit AND cats? Wonder if that would work out.

Our house bunnies were always litter trained. Very easy to do. They are really clean little creatures if you give them the opportunity.