Grrrr.... I've been working on transitioning my Bella from a caged-by-day-free-range-by-night to a totally cage-free bun. She had been so good, I thought she was ready to try a day out of the cage while I went to class. So I let her stay out. I have grids up to block access to low bookshelves and all electronics and wires. This has always been fine, and Bell's not too much of a chewer, anyway, as bunnies go.
So I came home today and found the grids had been somehow maneuvered out of place. Bunny had somehow gotten behind. First, I found bits of a dustjacket. Bella had destroyed the dust jacket and taken a good chunk out of my absolute favorite, somewhat rare, $80 art book. Only that one, of course, she didn't touch anything less expensive. But it gets worse. I found Bella's behind sticking out from between the bookshelf and the tv stand. There wasn't enough room for her to actually get in there or behind the tv, thank goodness. But she did find a wire she could reach to chew on, and was about halfway through it. THANK GOD it was a cable that connects the DVD player to the tv screen, and the DVD player was UNPLUGGED. So bunny is fine. But it was so scary. I didn't know which wire it was at first, I only saw that she had gotten all the way through the plastic casing and bits of brass wire were sticking out. I screamed and ran and traumatized the poor bunny. Everybody's fine, and I really don't care about my DVD player, but I'm terrified now. I obviously have to figure out something better than grids for bunny-proofing, and I obviously underestimated my bunny's predilection for troublemaking. And now I feel awful for leaving her out unsupervised. I really thought the grids would be enough. Maybe I need iron bars?
But I don't feel much better about watching her chew at the bars of her cage, wanting to come out and play. Sigh. Time to rethink this whole arrangement.