Creative box chewing 101

[LastEchoes]

So my girls have had their cardboard box for about 6-7 months now...Maybe more, I don't exactly keep track but I know it's been at least that long.
It started off as a nice, perfect to sleep/stash food box.

A few months into box's life, my girls decided it needed a window:



Another couple of months went by...And at some point last night one of my girls did this:



Notice the perfectly horizontal chew pattern (ok i compromised it a bit with part of the roof collapsing during removal process)

I say it takes some talent to chew in such an angle and keep it horizontal. I think she might have been trying to demolish/remove one wall of the box for that 'open' feel/look.

[Twixter]

I must say, your boxes last a long time, lol. My girls demolish theirs with their 'creative tendencies' within the first week. Crazy rats 

[mamarat2]

Seriously, MONTHS?     Mine do their fancy artistic work in a matter of days.  Boys and girls!

[LastEchoes]

I don't know. Neither my boys or girls that I have(had) ever destroyed their boxes fast. Most boxes will last for months. Perhaps it's because I give them newpaper/papertowels to rip apart along with other chew toys that are more fun to destroy than boxes.

[CassiHL]

Any cardboard in my boys' cage is immediately chewed up then peed on. 

[Heatherama]

Years ago, we had a rattie that liked to be really closed in, so we put up a piece of cardboard on the side of the cage.  She chewed it...and I swear it looked like a middle finger.  I took a pic, but can't find it.  If I find it, I'll post it.

[MsMagpie]

My girls love to chew their boxes so much I usually close them before I put them in the cage so the girls have to chew their own entrances.

[whtnyte]

Here we have the much loved, often chewed on, timber hut that has been around for ages. BooBoo & Jett no longer fit in it, they just love to chew on it lol!