When my roommate was in Japan, she owned a dwarf rabbit. She told me when she came home from work one day she found half of his whiskers were burnt. She didn’t know what happened to him until she saw him chewing on a piece of electrical wire that same evening. Sparks came out and burnt the other side of his whiskers. The rabbit jumped, shook his head a couple of times as if saying “what happened to me?” then looks around a bit. Noticing nothing out of ordinary, he looked down at the electrical wire and thinks “I wonder what this is?” and starts chewing on it again. By Darwin’s law, he should never have seen adulthood. In preparation of Chubby’s arrival, we decided to bunny proof her living quarters. We removed all electric wires and put boxes to cover the outlets and maintain a clutter free space for her. All rabbit owners will tell you “a bored bunny is a naughty bunny”. Around 8 months old, Chubby started to develop a bad habit of chewing and destroying the boxes in her living space. Up to that time, she has always stopped when you said “no” to her….until REBELLION I was watching TV when Chubby started gnawing on the brown box. Me: clapped my hands and said “NO!” Chubby: stopped and looked at me. Me: turned back to TV Chubby: started gnawing again Me: “Chubby!” After one minute she started gnawing again. This time I walked over, spanked her butt and said “NO!”. As I walked away I heard furious gnawing accompanied with scratching. Yes, my sweet and cute rabbit was rebelling against me. TIME OUT I picked her up and put her back into the cage, left the room and turned off the light. Lesson of the day, the one with hands always wins. So this is how parents feel during their child’s teenage years… | 
