This may seem like a stupid question, but hey, I have no pride. Our psychotic dwarf rabbit, Slick, has an unusual urge to chew on things. He does it pretty indiscriminately and I have some chewed up T-shirts to prove it. Annoying as this is, my sister claims if he didn’t do it, he would die. She showed me a gruesome picture of a woodchuck with incredibly long and deformed chompers, and says that’s what would happen to Slick if he didn’t chew. Is this true? How can I remedy this? –Josh Ingle, Salem, Oregon

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There are no stupid questions, Josh, only stupid questioners–but don’t worry, you’re Kierkegaard compared to some of the characters I hear from. Like the three weirdos who mailed me a dirtball from under the bed so I could tell them what was in it. Sometimes on this job I feel like I ought to wear rubber gloves.