Rabbit Proofing Your Home

If you plan on letting your rabbit live inside your home (and you should!) there are a number of steps you need to take to keep your rabbit and your furniture and appliances safe.

Rabbits are ravenous chewers. They will gnaw on practically anything within their reach. This makes for a very dangerous dynamic when you put a rabbit near power cables that run along the floors of your home. The first and easiest option to prevent your bunny from chewing on these cables is to try to run all the electrical wires in your home behind or below furniture where they will be inaccessible to your rabbit. If you can't successfully hide all of your power wires, there are three other options you can consider.

Plastic tubing can be purchased and wrapped around wires to prevent easy access by your rabbit. The same is true of spiral cable wrap. These two options are generally pretty effective but some rabbits still manage to chew their way through them. The third option is to buy decorative wire concealers that run along the bottoms of your walls with the wires tucked safely behind them. This is a time consuming and pricey method, but it is probably the most effective at keeping your rabbit away from the wires.

Rabbits also love to eat plants, and many house plants are toxic to rabbits. Do your best to keep your house plants out of reach of your rabbit and be sure to pick up any dead or fallen leaves off the ground.

For baseboards and furniture, the only thing you can really do is to place a barrier between your rabbit and the objects you wish to protect. Either use a wooden board, chicken wire, or any other fence like enclosure. This will protect your furniture from nasty rabbit bite marks. Rabbit proofing can be a bit of a chore, but once you're done, you can rest easy knowing your rabbit can play freely and safely in your home.