Well, I had some technical issues today getting the scanner to play nice with me over these photos. Going forward I am trying to find a better way to get the old 35mm film shots of Tigger and Shadow converted to digital.
When we first got Tigger and Shadow, we were living in an apartment. Right off the bat, we realized that their fearsome tendency to chew everything they could was going to put our pet and regular security deposit in huge jeopardy if we didn’t do something major to keep bunny teeth away from baseboards, doors and plaster walls.
So we ended up creating the Great Wall of Cardboard. You can see it running around the rooms in these pictures. We used either pieces of cardboard or cardboard mailing envelopes and hooked them together with ACCO binder clips at the top and bottom or large 3″ metal paper clips. We liked the cardboard mailing envelopes because they were not only a uniform size, but there were two thicknesses for the rabbits to have to chew through before they could get to baseboards, doors or plaster.
The clips holding the cardboard together allowed it to be taken down and put up easily if we wanted to completely disassemble it for company coming. It was also easy to replace pieces of the cardboard wall as they became too chewed. The wall was a foot tall, so we could easily open a door and step over it into another room. Unless a bunny was right there and ready to leap, it stopped them from zooming through.
The Great Wall of Cardboard served us well and when we moved out, we did get our security deposit back.
This post is about hitting the office products department to help with bunnyproofing and make your life with rabbits simpler. Both clips in the picture are 1 1/4 inches wide. The black ACCO binder clip is 2 inches long while the giant paper clip is 4 inches long.
