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Forum BEHAVIOR Bunny Pees on Bed and Couch

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    • Inle_Rabbit
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        My 3ish year old female lop keeps peeing on my bed and my couch. She is other wise pretty much litter trained. I don’t know how to get her to stop. She was doing really well with not peeing on the couch and bed simply by teaching her not to go onto those spaces. I clapped at her and told her no. That seemed to work most of the summer but now she’s at it again. My husband is not really an animal person and he is pretty upset that the behavior has returned. I told him it more than likely is something we can train out of her but I need to figure out a way to do it. So far I have only succeed in teaching her to do it when I leave the room! Completely unintended and even more annoying!

        We are moving next week and she will not be allowed upstairs where the bedrooms are because of this and that makes me sad. My husband wants to confine her to the kitchen (which is a big space) but I’m use to free range bunnies. I like to be greeted at my door by my dogs and rabbit plus Pepper does not like slick flooring. =(

         Does anyone have any ideas on how to get her to stop? I’m afraid if my husband, the rabbit and I can’t come to a compromise my husband might start pushing to have her re-homed. He already is not fond of her but tolerates her because I love her as do our kids.


      • lovemypanda
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          Is she spayed? my bunny had this problem he is about 7 months. I got him neutered and it stopped (I’m sure I just jinxed myself). Until that point, I bought those quilted mattress pads for babies and put them in his favorite spots. They are water proof and I washed them in the tub and hang dried them until it was time to do laundry.

          Now if I can just get him to stop pulling up the carpet…


        • Inle_Rabbit
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            She is spayed.


          • Thump
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              I had a lop that was obsessed with peeing on my bed and clean laundry. You really cant train a rabbit to not pee where they want to mark. My bunny would jump on my bed and I’d say “No!” and hed jump off but as soon as I’d leave the room he would sneak back on. You have to make the bed and couches completely off-limits to your bunny. Put a sheet of vinyl over them or use a tall enough fence when you’re not in the rooms and close the bedroom door when you leave. If your bunny stays off the couch for long enough with this method than maybe you can try supervising her at a future time. The kitchen isnt all that bad if you put a large rug over the hard wood floor. My buns live in the kitchen with a rug and the living room area. The behavior is not going to stop on its own. You have to out-smart your bunny and set limits.


            • chellemakepeace
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                my little girl did this for a bit, but we would say “no” and immediately put her back in her cage (did not close the door)…just enough so she knew that peeing on my stuff got her kicked off!

                Basically said, no and shooed her back to her cage.

                She did it maybe 10 times total, and now she doesn’t ever! Perfectly potty trained bun!


              • MoveDiagonally
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                  Bunnies peeing on beds and couches is a pretty common issue. Rabbits are territorial and smell oriented and beds and couches smell so much like us humans it can trigger their marking instincts.

                  I would make the couch and bed “bunny free zones”.


                • Inle_Rabbit
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                    She is not allowed on the couch she just gets up there when I leave the room. very sneaky little bunny!

                    I think once we move confining her to the kitchen/dinning rooms is the best option.

                    I’ll take some more time to train her before allowing her into the living room.

                    I’ve had many house rabbits before even 5 at one time and I have never had a rabbit do this to me.

                    I think part of the problem with her is she is half wild (as in not tame). A friend of mine found her along side a road. She has become very use to indoor living but not quite as much to her people though she has figured out when the guinea pigs squeak that means it dinner time! Then she likes us lol.


                  • Fessy
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                      I just adopted a almost 3 year old bunny and she was litter trained before she came. I’ve had a week and only 3 accidents, but two of those have been her peeing and pooping in the same place on the couch and both times I put her back in cage. She also pooped on the carpet once. 

                      She isn’t spayed but I plan to get that soon. I’m also thinking of getting a new cage, but how can I stop her from going on the couch? She knows it makes me upset, but there’s no way I can restrain her from the couch because my living room is pretty open. 

                      Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!


                    • Sarita
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                        Fessy, we ask that members make a new thread and not piggy back on old threads and this thread is form 2014. That being said, please start a new thread.

                        I will tell you this however, most rabbits will pee on beds and couches whether they are spayed/neutered or not because it’s soft and it smells like you. Also your rabbit doesn’t really understand you being upset by this…

                        The only suggestion anyone can give is for you to keep her off the couch, get her an exercise pen which has more room (most cages are way too small) and get her spayed.

                        Also you must retrain her in her new environment – read this for litter training advice:

                        https://binkybunny.com/BUNNYINFO/tabid/53/CategoryID/5/PID/940/Default.aspx

                        I encourage you to start your own thread.

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