Why is she pooping EVERYWHERE but her litter box?

[Little Lion Head]

Pumpkin has very few pee accidents, but she poops everywhere! She sits on the couch and leaves 30 pills behind. She jumps on my lap and leaves 10  or so. She’s pooping all over her bedroom floor. Whats up with this? Can I train her to put it all in her box?

[Mocha]

I’m assuming she’s spayed.

They do that to mark their territory. You can put the poops in her litterbox when she’s watching you, and she’ll eventually get the idea of where to go. You can also do this when she pees, but wipe it up with a paper towl and put the towel in her litterbox.

If she’s dribbling urine around, she probably has a urinary infection which requirs a vet visit for future reference.

[Megabunny]

Ooooh. Is little Pumpkin having some attitude issues? What did you do to make her mad? I’m kidding…sort-of. Sounds like she’s mad about something, as I see she’s spayed. Do you know if it started after you gave the box a good cleaning? Some rabbits want you to put some of the stinky stuff back in after the box is all freshened up. Can you bring yourself to confine her a bit for a couple of days and get her back on the straight and narrow??? And Jack Rabbit says you have to talk to them and explain what they are doing wrong while you are putting poops back in the box, though Gus doesn’t care what I’m saying. When his attitude kicks in, he will poop all over his pen (he isn’t free to roam 24/7), then he’s over it and goes back to the box for his business. And I was just complaining about not being able to have 24/7 free roam bunny. Hope you straighten up and behave yourself so Pumpkin doesn’t have to keep showing her displeasure of whatever the situation is LOL

[JackRabbit]

Yep, you have to have the “poop goes in the potty” talk while showing her that you’re putting the poops in the litterbox!! LOL! This won’t help much with territory marking but it worked with mine for cage pooping. Marlee was the toughest, but a few days of showing her and having “the talk” worked. I should add that Marlee watched and listened very intently during “the talks”! Having these talks with Marlee also worked with walls (“we don’t lick walls”). And no, I’m not crazy! Hahaha!

[Little Lion Head]

Mocha–that is how we got her to pee in her box–wiped it up and put it in her box. She caught on pretty quick (a few days).

MegaBunny–I’m cracking up over here! But seriously trying to think of something we’ve done different and the only thing I can think of is the giant area rugs we put in her room a week ago! And here I thought we were doing her a FAVOR so she wouldn’t have to slip and slide on the hardwood. That’s gotta be it! Man she’s really gonna be mad when she has to live in our room for a couple days over Thanksgiving (my grandma needs her room!)…

JR–I think you should video tape these conversations so we can really see how its done! Hahaha…Jared grumbles “damit pumpkin” under his breath as he cleans up the stray poops–that’s probably not the talk you meant?!?! HA! I will definitely be having a few “talks” with the pooping machine!

Totally off topic, but this tiny little 4 lb. rabbit can really produce poop! Can you imagine what a flemish giant produces!! Yikes!!!!!

[Megabunny]

Well, Gus is 12 pounds and his are really big. I don’t think I’d want one any bigger. Those little tiny droppings would seem almost cute to me, but not on the couch. At least you have help cleaning up, despite the cussing. All animal bodily fluids are mine, unless I’m gone, and even then sometimes I’ve come home to paper towels laying over the problem areas. Part of it is because I’m a control freak. I think most of it is because I’m the animal person in the house. Grumble grumble

[Little Lion Head]

We just had a little chat, as I dropped one poop at a time in her box. I think she had her teenage ears on though and completely ignored me!

[JackRabbit]

LLH — My curiousity got the best of me already so you can probably find a thread somewhere with a discussion about giant breed poop size! I was picturing golf ball size poops, but apparently they’re big but not proportionally bigger!! LOL!

[Megabunny]

This thread is getting too funny! Nope no golf balls!

[Little Lion Head]

They would be easy to locate and clean up!

[Megabunny]

And the dog would have such a feast

[JackRabbit]

LOL! Sometimes in life, ya just have to know in order to put your imagination to rest!

[manic_muncher]

marbles… marble-size.. yeah.

[Megabunny]

THAT’S IT, MM!!! Thank you!

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