Ha ha ha ha ha GREAT! Henry will never live down his ‘bad’ reputation, cause he was so BAD! (thanks JR & MB)
The hubby and I are bugga’s for hanging out in bed and in turn so do our 3 dog’s. When our newest family addition Henry came along, we knew it would be no time before he claimed our bed as his too, and we were super cool with that, even encouraging (we love it too!) TILL……. he ‘sprayed’ us ALL!
Every time Henry jumped up onto the bed and turned his back on us we all scattered like a bomb was about to go off! In our panic we weren’t sure if we had time to push him off the bed or whether to dive for cover? Thinking we may have time to push him off, we’d catch a face full of bunny wee (we eventually learned to keep our mouths closed while doing so). If we simply dove for cover – our, bedding, walls, furniture, dog’s (even my cup of tea on the bedside table) copped it! For a day or two we put up a board to keep him out of our room, but felt just awful – Henry scratching on the board trying to get in while we were all in bed, we couldn’t do it. Henry was ‘perfectly’ toilet trained using ‘his’ toilet, and considering this behaviour only occurred on our bed we knew he was marking our bed and us as ‘his’ and his territory – we had him neutered! He NEVER sprayed us again! (and only did one ‘puddle’ wee on the bed). The hubby, dog’s, HENRY and myself have lived ‘happily ever after’ in OUR bed ever since.
Part 2 (ha ha hah ha….). MY Henry LOVES my dog’s and husband! ME? NOPE! Do you know how annoying it is to know Henry is mine and he barely tolerates a pat from me, and yet he will ‘follow’ my hubby around the house??? I reckon I know why…. My hubby is the ‘banana’/treat giver! and he doesn’t hesitate to lay on the (dirty bunny fluff) floors (I won’t – yuck!) so Henry can approach him on the same level. I ‘think’ some bunnies just connect (trust) with a particular person – how lucky (if this is the case) that your bunny chose YOU! With time and a lot of patient interaction from your boyfriend and housemates this may improve? Henry is better with me, letting me approach him, but it’s just not he same as the relationship he has with my hubby and have accepted this may always be the case? I’m just happy that Henry has one human friend.
Hope this helps a bit Evelyn Blair – it may not solve your problem, but if understanding ‘why’ it may be happening makes it more acceptable or easier to deal with, I hope I have at least helped by sharing my story….. Cheers.