Typically I visit the forums in times of need and now is certainly a time. I’ve been having all sorts of behavoiral problems with my little Pistachio. She will be turning four months in the next two days and is currently not spayed which I understand can be an attribute to some of the issues I am facing. However I cannot wait for another two months to hope things are fixed, I need some sort of solution now.
I’ve been back and forth in regards of litter training and bad habits that she has picked up in the course of time I have had her and with my last visit here I thought I had a break through. Turns out, not so much. Progress had been made in regards to her litter training and all was well when something suddenly flipped a switch. Little Pistachio has now taking to peeing everywhere! She is constantly soiling my pillows, bed, carpet, blankets, clothes, school books and she would have nearly had my laptop had I not lunged in and took the hit in my hand. (Ick). I don’t know what has come over hee. Typically cupping my hand under her bum to usher her to her litter box would work but now she goes regardless of my hand being there or not. It’s a complete nightmare. I’m constantly having more and more soiled items and I really can’t afford to allow this behavior. Its so bad, I can’t even keep up with laundry. My bed has been stripped of all my sheets and I”m sleeping in a sleeping bag on my bed. (Which she managed to pee on as well. Fortunately the sleeping bag is waterproof and it wipes right off).
Another problem I have been having is with her constant escapes. Recently, I had invested in a pen too allow her space outside of the cage. I made this decision after suffering through nights of her rattling her cage door in demands to be set free. Just as I was led on with the litter training, I thought this was the great and powerful answer to my troubles. She was able to go in and out of her cage as she pleased and had extra room to exercise for when I was away during the day. I was even able to sleep at night! Then it happened one late night/early morning. I woke up to some movement at the foot of my bed. You can imagine the slight panic attack I had when I saw something black dash across my room. Blind with my glasses and squinting in the dark, I started where I last saw something when she suddenly revealed herself to be the movement but jumping on my face. It was cute at first ( once I gotten over the initial scare ) since she would sit on her hind legs and put her front paws on my cheek but then it started happening every night/early morning. I made sure to locate her escape route (she learned to hop on top of her cage so she can then hop over the gate) and I blocked it off. Only she has learned to even hop over the wall I set up using a yoga mat and board. I’m really at a lost. Regards of how I fortify the pen, she learns to escape. I’ve seen her wall jump to get out, no kidding!
Adding her ninja escape artist skills with the flood gates of her bladder and I’m stuck with a serious problem. I’ve come home several times to her outside of her pen, only to play a long scavenger hunt to find all the items she managed to pee or chew on. The only solution I have managed to come across is to lock her back up in the cage which takes me back to square one. Her habit to rattle the cage door nonstop until she is set free. I’m really at the end of my rope. She is an adorable rabbit who doesn’t mind my constant picture taking and can often be found laying at my feet spread out on her stomach/side. I mean, when she isn’t driving me crazy, I truly enjoy her company and the fact that we can just lay there for a good half hour or more while I just pet her. But with all this negative behavior, cute as she may be there isn’t much I can do. What’s worse is I am beginning to question whether or not the rabbit is the pet for me. I’ve never given up on an animal, but if I don’t solve this issue I don’t know what else I can do. I risk my stuff being ruined and upsetting my landlord with the mess she is making.
Please help me! I’ve also included a link to my last thread which elaborates a bit more. ( https://binkybunny.com/tabid/54/…fault.aspx
EDITED , Sorry saw lots of typos when I initially wrote it up. Should be good now.