You don't have to search hard to find numerous posts by desperate owners who struggle to 'contain a rabbit's urge to chew on cables'. Yes - bored, indoor-kept rabbit can do a lot of damage to soft and hard rubbery cables and all other cords - electrical or not. However, such behaviour is anything but natural. It is simply a result of a neglected rabbit with 'nothing better to do'. Other rabbit owners are convinced that rabbits are attracted to cables because they look like "tasty roots". But electrical cables are tasteless - or more precisely - they taste nothing like natural rabbit food - they taste like plastic or rubber clad copper. Which is precisely what they are.
We happen to have a rather large quantity of electrical, coaxial and data cables in our backyard. Some of them are partially underground, but mostly they lay on grass or concrete. In the past two years, I could not find a single chew mark on any cable at all. And all of them certainly do look like a roots, and Charlie and his family spend hours running around them. Yet still not a single attempt to bite into a cable. Which is hardly a mystery: with an abundance of REAL roots, shrubs, trees and tasty rabbit food, cables are simply - not of interest.
While both Mum and Zucka do occasionally chew on wood corners of their overnight hatches, this is quite natural and easily explained behaviour: their teeth are always growing, so they need hard things to chew on to keep their teeth trimmed.
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