Peeing and pooping on my couch EVERY DAY. Why???

[bonilla&BUB]

Hey everyone! 

My male bun is having some litter issues. He was actually beginning to be really good at litter training before we got him neutered, but now since he has been neutered he seems to poop everywhere in his cage. Some pees are in the litter box, some are on his blanket. I keep my rabbits in dog crates so I used a blanket on the bottom. Does anyone else do this? 

So what he has been doing for the past month is jumping up onto anything he can, like the coffee table and couch. Once on the couch, he poops all over it. Like massive amounts. And then he pees a huge pee! My beautiful couch that is synthetically stuffed, I’m sure is full of yellow stained pee. I take the cover off of the cushions and wash them… but I’d really like him to stop this as it is a daily occurrence. He doesn’t pee anywhere else in the house, only in his cage, and now the couch. My current attempt at training is saying “No!” when I see him about to pee (he kind of lifts his bum in an odd way), but he pees regardless. Then I usually put him in his cage or litter box and say, “Litter box!”. 

Any suggestions? Has anyone had a couch-peeing bun? 

My female, Bonilla, doesn’t chew anything but her toys, she pees and poops only in her litter box. Maybe we just lucked out with her? 

[Azerane]

Some rabbits just love to pee on soft things. Otherwise, since he’s still only a month out from neuter his hormones could still be a little crazy which can sometimes cause litter habits to go out the window for a couple months after neutering.

In terms of fixing it, you could limit him to his cage and pen for a time to help reinforce the behaviour of only going in the litter box, and after a week of so of him being completely successful with that, then let him out again.

[Tgbarber]

I’ve been dealing with this for a couple of weeks now. I would get so stressed out about it and i swear he knew that and then he got stressed out and peed even more. Mine started with pooping and as you said massive amounts. In seconds he would poop 50 times. When he bacs his butt up to back of sofa, he’s peeing. When i feel asleep on sofa he peed on me.

Several people on here recommended i cover sofa in puppy pee pads instead of the towels i was using. That helped my stress level so much which then calmed down bun.

Mine started this behavior after being moved to a diffetent room. After aweek, he really slowed down and in almost 2 weeks, he had stopped. I got a new desk and he started again. Now after 3 days, he’s stopped again. I guess any change is his trigger to mark.

If you try pee pads be sure not to get the one that had a substance to encourage puppy training

[P'Up2.6]

We have the same problem with our male rabbit. As soon as we left the room he would jump up on the couch and pee and poop as if he had been holding it for hours. I read about the spray bottle method, spray the body not their head. So I gave it a try by walking into the hallway and waiting for him to jump up on the couch, then I pop out and give him a squirt and yell NO, BAD RABBIT. The problem was that he knew what he was doing was wrong but there were no consequences, so far I think I squirted him 3 times and have not found any turds on he couch after work or if I go to the store now. *Knocks on wood*

[DorothyTheMiniSatinBun]

We had a huge problem with this with our Dorothy. She didn’t do it at all the first few months we got her, but then all of a sudden about 4-5 months in, she started peeing on the couch only right after my boyfriend was sitting there and had gotten up to leave the room. She NEVER did this to me and generally speaking, she never peed or pooped anywhere else other than the couch and where our feet would rest on the carpet. I thought it probably had to do with my boyfriend’s scent being left on the couch, she wanted to reclaim it as her own. What worked for us was 1- putting a litterbox near the couch and 2- trying to stop her when she got into “peeing position” and either gently nudging her off (then she would eventually go into the litterbox to relieve herself) or just carrying her and placing her into the litterbox. It eventually worked. No more accidents!

[bonilla&BUB]

Thanks everyone! I have purchased a spray bottle and will look around more for puppy pads. I bought another litter box and will try to keep him more supervised for the time being.

Thanks again!

[Tgbarber]

Someone said to watch their tail go up. I never had noticed that at all before so i was skeptical. Now I’m a pro at noticing the tail. Of course by then he’s peeing. If i notice him backing up to get in position i can catch him prior to peeing. I don’t yell but just calmy say no and gently push him off couch. And have litter box close and scoot him in there. I’m not sure it’s working yet. Still a work in progress. But the pee pads are definitely my friend!!

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