sasaki@harvard.UUCP (Marty Sasaki) (02/15/86)
The funny thing about my rabbits was that they chewed on dark electric
cords but not on white cords. Since they used a litter box I let them
run and didn't notice the chewing until a fuse suddenly blew. I
replaced the fuse and it blew after about 10 minutes. Since it
obviously was an intermittent short I went searching and found that
one of the rabbits had chewed the insulation off of the cord going to
the refrigerator. Then I noticed that a lot of cords were chewed
through, but not completely, and the white cords where not damaged at
all.
The rabbits were then banished to the bathroom (no electric cords,
tile everywhere (they chewed furniture and wood trim too, I gave them
little blocks of scrap wood to chew on).
The first winter was really interesting. I had steam radiator heat.
When the pipes would start banging, the rabbits would thump. The
rabbits were trying to communicate with the other rabbits (pipes) in
the building. They would get up on their hind legs and listen and look
intently over the board that I used as a barrier to keep them in the
bathroom.
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