(Part 2) Best dog feeding mats according to redditors

it sounds like while you're providing him with toys that he should be playing with instead of tearing up his environment, he's not as interested in those toys as he should be. Bunnies can be pretty picky about WHAT they want to chew on.

Experiment with a few different types of toys - you never know what he'll really get into until you try it. This is from the sidebar (which I know you said you've read).. trying some different options here might work better for him.

I can tell you from personal experience that my boys never like chew sticks, straw mats, straw caves/hovels, stuffed animals, or pretty much anything that said "for rabbits" on it. However, they LOVE tearing up an old phonebook. they love cardboard boxes - but they were never interested in them until i filled the boxes with things they could chew or dig in (unbleached/dyed packing paper - like the roll of plain brown paper you can get from the packing section of most stores, that weird softer cardboard packing material, hay - LOTS of hay, things like that). Once they saw they could get in there and have an activity, they liked it a lot better. They also liked it a lot better after I gave them a bigger, fort-sized cardboard box, and cut holes for them in all four sides to they can get in and out of it easily. they LOVE tossing plastic bottles around. They like it even more if it has a little bit of liquid in it (make sure the lid is tight so they can't open it).. that way there's a tiny bit of weight in it when they toss it about. they also love pet ramps (you can often find these a lot cheaper on woot.com). And they love it when i make a cubby hole for them somewhere, and put a chewable mat/rug down in it for them. It's like a combination hidey hole/dig spot for them.

You can also try treat traps. I've never tried them, myself, but for a more rambunctious bunny, it would likely keep them pretty occupied. As for your carpet, you can get a few small, cheap rugs to put down in his pen over your rental house carpets to keep your place safe. We have hardwood floors, so we put down various rugs around the house, not just so that if they dig, they dig in the cheap rug instead of our nice floors, but also to give them traction in their normal hang spots.

If distracting him with more interesting activities fails, you can get some sour-apple-tasting no-chew stuff from the pet store, and spray it in the places he tends to chews where he shouldn't be chewing. Just check the ingredients, and make sure there's nothing in there that might upset your bunny boy.

good luck!

You could name him Buck. Slightly the same as Bambi, easy to yell, goes well with expletives, and has all sorts of modifiers that will be fun: Bucky (BONUS HE CAN HAVE A BUCKY BALL!), buckster, buckingham, sir buckles mcbuckerton....

you could get this for Daisy so she doesn't mess up the new hardwood

or make her feel ferocious