She s**ts everywhere!

[iheartbunny]

I adore my baby bunny, Bunny, but she will eliminate her second bowel motion anywhere! And it doesn’t even bother her! She pees in her litter box and she does the caecal thing in there but she drops the pellets wherever! How do I train her to do this in her box as well??? She was really easy to toilet train with the other stuff but she’s terrible with this and it’s starting to annoy my husband… Please help

[manic_muncher]

How old is she now? Is she spayed yet? As they reach puberty they will tend to mark their territory with their poos. My Bumpy (male) was pretty good about only dropping loose poo balls in his xpen enclosure, but it was pretty much a poo explosion every time I turned around. He was good about not dropping them around the house, but he didn’t spend a lot of time outside of his pen (his choice) until after he was neutered. It took about a month after his neuter for those loose poos inside his pen to lessen from poo explosions over the entire area, to just within a foot or so around the litterbox.

Keep sweeping up the loose poos and place them inside her litterbox. This will help teach her that they should go there, but it will likely not stop until she is spayed.

I have two new buns that are still a little too young for their surgeries and boy do they mark territory! I can’t wait to get them fixed and having that problem lessen (and hopefully stop!). One good thing… they are dry and easy to clean up!

[iheartbunny]

She’s around 12 weeks old. Some days she is fine and the others, like today, she’s terrible!

[Pipje]

12 weeks is exactly when hormones kick in!

Right now I have a bunny waiting to be spayed and though she never poops in the rest of the house, recently in her condo she likes to leave me presents everywhere even though she uses her box, I know it will pass but for now I’m 24/7 armed with a dustpan and brush! My other rabbit had perfect litter habits literally the day he came home fro being neutered, it was magic!

Most vets won’t spay till 5 or 6 months with females so I’d call your local rabbit savvy vet and check what they say, you will have a few months of the pooping everywhere to deal with and then once she is spayed her hormones will calm down and the need to constantly mark with poops will leave.

During this time bunnies can be very naughty as well as poopy, the urge to dig/chew/destroy and just be massive crazy poop and destroy monsters is driving them wild (which is why many people give up on them as they don’t realise this will pass!). Even if you don’t have all these problems, it is recommended to get your rabbit spayed because females have such a high chance of developing cancer without it plus you can’t get them a friend either unless they are spayed/neutered.

[Sarita]

What kind of set up does she have in her cage?

Are you putting hay in her litter box?

[iheartbunny]

yes she has hay in her litter box. She doesn’t have a cage she’s free to roam the apartment all day.

[Stickerbunny]

Since she’s free roam, she has a lot of space to mark as hers. Until she is spayed, it will probably continue. It’s hard to litter train very young unspayed rabbits, more so the more space they have available to them (especially soft surfaces). The fact she isn’t spraying is good though. As she ages, she may develop more bad habits though as the hormones begin kicking in. Making a cage may be a good idea (even if you don’t use it yet) because if she becomes a hormonal monster (many young buns do) you won’t want her having free access to all your stuff.

[Sarita]

I think she is way too young for free roaming the whole apartment – you given her too much space too soon.

[iheartbunny]

She HATES being locked up and I couldn’t bear to put her in a cage (I also have a very spoilt son and cat). She has a ‘room’ that she goes in at night and when I’m not home or able to supervise. She only does it on the couch and on our bed. She has her favourite areas but she only s**ts on the couch or in our bed and more so when the cat is there.

[Tessie]

Bunnies always pee and poop on soft surfaces like sofas and beds, the only real solution is to not let her on them.

I think maybe give her a smaller space and then gradually increase it, so she learns the litterbox better.

[iheartbunny]

Naw, but she looks at me with that cut face and my heart melts and she gets whatever she wants, except the cat’s dinner, and then she jumps on me and gives me cuddles and… awwwwwwww! I’m a puddle on the ground. In saying that, I am going to take this advice on board. I’ve located my local rabbit specialist vet and I will be talking to him first thing Monday about getting her spayed! I definitely don’t want her dying of cancer and I don’t want her trying to breed with my desexed boy cat…

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