...and he'll chew off a foot...or in this case, a mat.
There is about a three- or four-foot space between the doorway to my kitchen and my computer desk, which sits just at the doorway to my dining room/office. The hallway that connects the two doorways is polyurethaned and very slick hardwood floor, and the slickness of said floor has been enough to keep Mickey from crossing over to where I sit at the computer. He's tried a number of times, but with the exception of one brief moment where he managed to scoot himself over, then promptly panicked and scooted back, he's usually been unsuccessful.
Recently, I took pity on him and decided to give him a little help by placing a towel on the floor so he can hop over to see me when he feels like it. The towel stretches from the kitchen floor over to the carpeted rubber-based mat that keeps my chair from tearing up my floor. Mickey wasn't at all sure about the towel, especially because it tends to slide on the floor a little when he moves on it, but he figured it out quick enough, and ever since then, he's been bopping back and forth from kitchen to mat, with the occasional attempt to move further down the hallway to see what's there.
I thought it was quite successful, but of course, being the wascally wabbit that he is, it didn't take long for Mickey to turn a bit of freedom into an opportunity for mischief. He has apparently decided that the rubber edge around the mat is rather tasty, so now I have to keep an eye out for him because he will sneak over, move the towel edge covering the mat and start chewing away. I've been putting my foot on the towel's edge so that he can't move it without me noticing, and that's kept him at bay for a bit, but it hasn't dissuaded from from trying to find a chewable spot. I've already told him if he keeps it up, the towel goes away and he's stuck in the kitchen again, but he just looks up at me with his cute pouty face as if to say, "Aw, Mum, you spoil all my fun.", then licks my foot in an attempt to distract me before he goes for the mat again. Foo' wabbit.