Cable protectors

What they actually do. A determined rabbit will get through a protector eventually. What a protector changes is the speed: instead of a bare cable gone in thirty seconds, you get a sleeve with teeth marks in it that you notice and replace. For live cables, that gap is the whole point.

Which cables first. Anything loose and at floor level in the roaming zone. A cable pinned tight against a skirting board is far less interesting than one hanging in a loop — rabbits go for things they can get their teeth behind.

Reroute before you protect. The safest cable is one your rabbit cannot reach. Lift what you can behind furniture or up off the floor first, and protect only what has to stay down there. Planning the roaming zone around the worst cables beats armouring all of them.

Check them monthly. Run a hand along each one. Teeth marks mean that cable has been found and is being worked on, and a protector that has been breached is doing nothing. Replace it and consider moving the cable instead.

Give them something better. A rabbit chewing cables is a rabbit that needs something else to chew, and more often than not, more hay. Protectors handle the risk; they do not handle the cause.

[TO CONFIRM: material, internal diameter, whether they can be cut to length, and how they close around an already-connected cable]