BAD Bunny!

[MayaConsuelo]

Wondering if any of you have tales of woe where your bunnies misbehaved egregiously.

Mr. Bun-Bun was ridiculously rotten last night, and I’m not sure what provoked him. It may have been a combination of factors: A cool breeze was blowing through the house with lower temperatures than we’ve had in months, it’s new moon time, a friend was over having cocktails for his birthday, my sister was there and feeding Bun-Bun more pellets/fruit than I usually give him because “he always looks hungry,” I was boiling some Chinese herbs which fill the house up with an overpowering smell and maybe he was responding to one of the herbal scents, etc. Who knows, but for whatever reason Mr. Bun-Bun was over-the-top hyper, kept running around all twitchy, and jumping from the couch to the ground and back again. I told my friend to nudge him off the couch because he’s not allowed since he sprays there, although I’m willing to try again in a few weeks once the hormones have regulated after his neuter operation. I was in the other room not paying attention when my friend yelled because Mr. Bun-Bun PEED ON HIM. On his birthday no less! This wasn’t just a couch spray incident, he full-on peed all over the couch and my friend while he was petting him.

We did have a good laugh about it, luckily he has animals so wasn’t upset and understood that I couldn’t reprimand Bun-Bun, although I did put him in his cage for a timeout. He’s never peed on anyone before, I thought bunnies don’t usually do that when they’re playing or cuddling, so who knows what provoked him. It was a bit embarrassing I have to admit. And I had to do a load of laundry in the middle of the night to wash the couch cover.

That’s about it, Bun-Bun is lucky he’s so cute and can get away with that kind of behavior. Oh also I have a question, I want to paint a wall in the living room which is where his cage is. Should I move the cage into another room while I’m painting? Will the fumes be a problem even if the windows are all open? Thanks.

[Sarita]

Oh dear LOL. Yes rabbits do pee on people and may do this even if neutered or spayed. Could be he was jealous too.

I would move the cage, also maybe consider using that low HVO paint as well – I think it’s called that, HVO.

[GrumpyBun]

It’s VOC in the UK, short for volatile organic compound. I work in a hardware store – but unfortunately in the wrong country!

I actually started a thread with the very same title last week after Oxo broke into the area behind the TV and ate the aerial cable. When they were babies they managed to escape from their hutch while we were both at work – I had to dye the covers of my beige couch chocolate brown to cover the stains. The sofa was two months old and insured against accidental staining but damage from pets was excluded, and by using dye I voided the policy completely. It’s a good job I love them.

[Sarita]

Thanks grumbybun, that’s what I meant VOC. How did you dye your whole couch brown?

[GrumpyBun]

The base was brown anyway but the seat and back had covers with removable cushions. They were dry clean only but given they were wrecked I took a gamble and chucked them in the washing machine with ordinary clothes dye. I don’t know who should have been more relieved it worked – me or the buns.

[Sarita]

That was lucky! That’s bad though that you had to do that with a brand new couch. I would not be happy either.

[Andi]

hahaha naughty bunny!
My rex Bo would pee on me when he was mad at me…. he was very emotional LOL (and neutered)
I have one bunny who pee’s on everything, including people and spraying other bunnies, but he’s just crazy.

Baby, my peeing/spraying/crazy/cute bunny has done a lot of naughty things, like once eyeing my new Ikea star shapes dangling lights, i saw him and said “No Baby!” as i knew what he was thinking. He looks at me, looks at the dangling cord again and CHOMP! bit right through them! I swear when he looked back at me he was smiling a “what?”
He also used to get behind our TV all the time, and a couple years ago we got a new TV and stereo for X-Mas. We moved the old TV & everything out, and when we did we couldn’t believe what we saw! The power bar cord was stripped, loose bits of wireing all over and no rubber wire coating left… it could have burned our house down, nevermind electricuted him!
Baby is no longer allowed in the livingroom, no matter how bunny proofed.

[MayaConsuelo]

Yeah I suppose the easiest way for a rabbit to express disgust is to pee on someone. Although in Mr. Bun-Bun’s case I really think he was just over-excited.

I didn’t know anything about VOCs – just searched for that online, great, another thing to worry about! I know paints are far safer than when I was a child, I remember painting the house and the smell just being awful and lingering forever… now the smell is not so extreme. I’ll probably move Bun-Bun for awile when I do it. I would go with a non-VOC paint but I have my heart set on a red living room wall, and they only have soft “natural” colors.

Mr. Bun-Bun is thankfully not a chewer, although I have a lot of wires in my house wrapped and still watch him. I was worried because I have a table which I made in high school shop class that I have in my living room, and don’t want him to snack on it, but he doesn’t seem to chew on anything made of wood in the living room. I’ll take peeing over that anyday!

[LizzieKnittyBun]

I think that, instead of telling a story, I’ll just post this picture…

The feathers have since been stuffed back into the cushion.  Nuff said.

[MimzMum]

Ah me…*shakes head* I can’t tell you how many times Mimzy has either peed on or near me that I don’t notice till I’m sitting in it (earning him the name “Wee Ninja Bun”) and he’s been neutered since he was 1 year old. He just feels it’s his duty to baptize my stuff in his urine.
He’s also ruined quite a few of my Gummy headphones with a backhanded CHOMP as he goes by. I’d be sitting with him and having a cuddle session, listening to my radio and it suddenly goes dead. Oops. Mimzy just looks at me like, “Huh? Oh, was that IMPORTANT to you? I rather thought it was in my way….”
Fiver is the little angel. He really doesn’t do anything he’s not supposed to. Except maybe when he put his stamp of disapproval on one of my daughter’s books by trying to yank it out of her hands with his teeth.

Pip has actually put tire tracks on my daughter’s forehead at one time when we were trying to wrangle her back into her habitat. (Pip’s habitat I mean…not my daughter’s…) She kicked out with those huge back feet of hers and left a nice scrape almost across my daughter’s eyebrow. I think she may still have a scar there. 0_o

And of course, on my birthday last week, Mimzy decided to leave me a nice puddle of HAP-PEE BIRFDAY wishes all over the pen of his habitat just as I was going to put his cleaned litterbox back in. *sigh* There is nothing worse than having to clean up freshly peed pee…unless perhaps it’s having to clean up cold bunny pee….

Don’t let ’em fool you…they know EXACTLY what they are doing, nothing ‘accidental’ about it…they’ve got their naughty planned weeks in advance! lmao!

[jennyrabbit]

lol! when Jenny is mad at me she just stamps…continuously..for hours. yup.. *SLAM*….30 seconds……*SLAM*….30 seconds……*SLAM*…….” I think I would rather deal with a destroyed couch! at least it would done and over with and something I can fix, as opposed to driving me up the wall and scaring the daylights out of my dogs!

[MayaConsuelo]

Oh dear… here I’m hoping that Mr. Pee-Pee is just a phase but it might not be. I love the other stories, I guess peeing is less destructive than shredding and chewing… actually my house is cleaner than ever because I have to scrub down every random corner he pees in!

He’s been peeing a lot more since his neuter operation! He peed on my friend, he ran into the kitty litter box room and peed in there, he peed in a couple other corners, etc. He hasn’t done that in the 3 months I’ve lived with him… So now I’m letting him out of his cage in shorter spurts (i.e. I let him out for 1/2 hour and then put him back in, even though he doesn’t want to go in.) Then once I see him hanging out in his litter box and chilling for awhile, I’m hopeful that he peed in there and let him out again. I don’t know how else to retrain him. I mean he’s mostly peeing in his boxes of course. But seriously peeing outside the box once a day! And after I’ve given him his favorite supper of fennel greens and fresh mint leaves! Plus I’ve been giving him farmer’s market gooseberries for treats… what a spoiled bunny!

[jerseygirl]

Things can be a little rocky directly after a neuter. It’s takes about a month (fingers crossed) for the hormone effect to settle. Letting him out for shorter spurts is a good idea. Help him keep better habits. etc. He might pee on your male guests in the future though….lol. Your his girl, he might take exception to there being other males present.

[MayaConsuelo]

Yeah the vet said it may take awhile for the hormones to regulate. And I know rabbits don’t urinate on things as a negative action always… he may be marking, who knows. Also, the first time I caught him peeing outside the cage, I only knew he did it because I heard him happily splashing in a puddle of pee… playing around in his pee, what a weirdo. In his cage he never pees on the carpeted levels so I KNOW he still has the capability of being completely housetrained… oh well, patience and we’ll see…

[SirThumpsey]

I am so sorry but when you said he peed all over him…I couldn’t stop laughing.. Bad Bunny is right.

Playing in his on pee, Maya? Wow, I’ve never seen that happen (knock on wood)

The worst thign Bud (sir thumps a lot) has ever done is the nipping when we feed him. Often drawing blood.

Halo on the other hand is destructo bunny to the Res- destruction? She will chew and dig up carpet, I’ve caught her eating the couch and my balls of yarn for knitting, I’ve caught her trying to eat a book I left on the table…She’s bad…but she’s just so cute that you can’t stay mad at her for long…

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