Why rabbits make a beeline for cables
To a rabbit, a cable lying along a skirting board looks remarkably like a root crossing a burrow entrance — and roots get bitten through. Chewing is also maintenance: rabbit teeth grow continuously, and gnawing is how they are kept worn, so this is not naughtiness to be trained away but a need to be routed. That framing changes the whole job. You are not stopping a behaviour; you are deciding where it happens. The cables matter most because they are the one target that can hurt her back — a bitten live cable can burn or electrocute — so cables get engineered out of reach first, before any thought of chair legs.
Get cables out of the chew zone
Walk the room and sort every cable into move, cover, or remove. Move what you can: chargers plugged in behind furniture the rabbit cannot get behind, lamps rewired along walls above her reach, extension leads lifted onto surfaces. What must cross the floor gets armour — rigid split-loom tubing or a hard cable conduit, the kind sold for workshop use, because the soft spiral wrap sold for tidiness parts under rabbit teeth in minutes. Cable management boxes hide power strips and the tempting knot of leads around them. Then get down to rabbit height and look again: the cable you forgot is always the one drooping behind the television stand, in the dark gap she can reach and you cannot see.
Defend furniture legs and skirting boards
Furniture chewing concentrates where she already spends time — the sofa legs beside her favourite loafing spot, the corner of the bookcase she naps behind. Blocking beats coating: clear acrylic panels, pen grids or furniture nudged flush to the wall remove access, while bitter sprays are famously unreliable, with many rabbits treating them as seasoning. Skirting boards along her regular routes can be covered with clear corner guards or a sacrificial strip of untreated wood she is allowed to work on. Sofas and upholstered chairs are harder — the defence there is supervision plus blocking the under-sofa gap, the hidden fabric underside being a favourite shredding site. Check your defences weekly; a panel shifted by vacuuming reopens the whole front.
Give the chewing somewhere legal to go
A rabbit with nothing sanctioned to chew will improvise with your possessions, so plant legal targets at her known gnawing stations: a bundle of apple or willow sticks by the sofa leg, a cardboard castle in the corner she patrols, hay stuffed into toilet-roll tubes, a seagrass mat where she digs. Rotate them — the same stick gets boring, and yesterday's ignored toy becomes interesting after a week away. When you catch her on something legal, that is the behaviour to reward with attention and a leaf; you are building a map in her head of what this room offers her teeth. For a wood or houseplant you are unsure about, put a follow-up question to KinsLe's Kinny; he answers using the KinsLe Answers library.