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Destructive bunny tips

Hello all. I have a spayed 2 year old destructive Dutch bunny I’ve had for about 5 and a half months now. She is the cutest little girl but boy is she destructive. I’ve put flooring of many different types underneath her enclosure and she’s chewed through them all 😭 I’ve had many different pee pads when I was working on litter training her, she chewed through them. I had her on just my carpet, she chewed the crap out of it (this was early on and I’ve realized my mistake since then), I’ve had her on foam boards, she was chewing them up, I put a fleece blanket on top, she was chewing through that. She has A TON of chew toys I rotate, so I’m not sure what the problem is. I made her a dig box, she started making that her litter box (it was cardboard, so you see why I had to stop that). She now has a hutch that is open to the rest of her playpen. I will be expanding her playpen, I just have a newly neutered bunny (it’s only been a week) that I will be bonding her to once his hormones settle. They already very much like each other and try to get out their pens to be with each other, kissing each other through bars (supervised obviously) but they do nothing but lay next to each other and groom the other. So I have no worries about them. But I don’t know what to do about her. I try to give her supervised free roam time, but she jumps on my bed and starts digging. I tell her no and guide her back to the floor but she really enjoys my bed. I wouldn’t care if she didn’t previously bite holes throughout my comforter. Trust and believe she has a lot of room and once bonded it will be expanded. But whether she was alone or had another bunny next to her, I was having this problem with her. I got a low pile rug and somehow I found she chewed a small hole through part of it. Don’t ask me how she managed to do that because I have no clue. I just can’t keep spending money on alternatives because she chews through everything. She’s a sweet little girl though, even though she still runs away when my hand is nearby. (Trying not to loom over her like a predator and make it a gentle near her body) I just would like help with what to do with her. She doesn’t respond to her name unless I’m saying it when she’s doing something bad (I want to try encouraging her with treats again to learn her name) and she will just go back to what she was doing, which is usually destructive 😭. For context, the bunnies are in my room. There isn’t another place in my house where they can be. I’d like to bring them downstairs but it needs renovations. We also have the washer and dryer in an adjacent room downstairs. I would just like assistance pls

by amaya211

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