A rabbit's teeth grow throughout life, and chewing is how the rabbit keeps them worn and its gut and mind occupied. Baseboards and cables are not chosen out of spite; they sit at rabbit height, resist the teeth pleasantly, and run along the walls a roaming rabbit naturally patrols. Removing free-roam time punishes the rabbit for a need it cannot switch off, so the workable answer has two halves: make the room's fixed features hard to damage or reach, and make the offered alternatives genuinely appealing.
Armor the Cables and Baseboards
Start with cables, because they carry a safety risk beyond damage. Thread every cable in the roam area through hard plastic trunking or split-loom tubing a rabbit cannot bite through, route runs up and over rather than along the floor where you can, and move chargers, lamps, and spare leads out of the area entirely. Unplug and remove anything you cannot protect before each session rather than trusting a cover you have not checked.
Baseboards take guards well: fit clear covers or plain protective strips along the runs your rabbit favors, or place low furniture, storage boxes, and hay racks along the wall so the board itself is out of reach. Corners and door edges get attention first, since rabbits work at protruding edges with real persistence. Walk the room at rabbit height once, looking for wallpaper seams, rug edges, and table legs in the same chewing line, and cover or move what you find in the same pass.
Put Legal Chewing Where the Rabbit Roams
Alternatives fail when they live in the hutch while the rabbit roams the room. Set up chew stations along the patrol route itself: a bundle of willow or untreated apple twigs, a cardboard box or castle with door holes cut in, hay stuffed into a paper bag or box, and a seagrass mat or dig tray in a favorite corner. Place one station beside each formerly tempting baseboard run, so the legal option is closer than the forbidden one at the moment the urge strikes.
Refresh stations before they are finished, not after, and rotate what each holds so the route stays worth investigating. When you catch chewing starting on a guard or piece of furniture, redirect calmly to the station beside it and offer a favored twig; never chase, shout, or pick the rabbit up as a consequence, which only adds fear to a calm activity. Many rabbits settle into the stations within a couple of weeks once the room offers enough to do.
Photograph the finished proofing of each room once, so anyone resetting the room after cleaning can see where guards, trunking, and stations belong rather than rebuilding from memory.
Keep the Protection From Slipping
Proofing decays quietly: a new charger appears on the floor, a guard comes loose, a chew station runs empty, and the baseboard habit returns in a day. Build a short weekly check into your routine, covering cable covers intact, guards fixed, stations stocked, and any new object in the room assessed at rabbit height. Supervise more closely after any furniture move, since a shifted sofa can open a fresh run of unguarded board.
Free-roam time itself is part of the solution, not the reward for good behavior: a rabbit that roams long and often, with plenty to chew and explore, has less drive to work on the room than one released briefly into boredom. That weekly check is easy to keep inside KinsLe, where Care Teams can hand it to any household member and show at a glance that guards and stations were actually checked, not just meant to be.