parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
I have always had my indoor buns as total free rangers and apart from the odd poo, or sometimes the very occassional pee in elderly or disabled buns I have never had any real issues.
However we currently have a younger female bun (c12 months, neutered several months ago, no health issues name of Princess Peach Blossom) with absolutely NO IDEA of the concept of litter training. She just pees and poos wherever she happens to fancy. She is not incontinent as she knows she is doing it - and it is not a dribble wee but a proper one.
She has unsettled one of my other buns so that they are now doing this as well.
We have tried putting litter trays in three different corners and tried low rim ones just in case (though she happily jumps into trays to munch hay etc), and still she will pee wherever except in the tray .
I have tried putting her with a tray in a dog crate for a while in the hope she would then recognise this as 'her area' where she should pee - but no change.
TBH she seems to have none of the territorial and 'keep poo and pee smells in one place' instinct that most rabbits retain from wild behaviour.
Obviously we have no carpets (and the only large rug was sent to a specialist antique rug cleaner at vast expense and is now packed away).
But its beginning to affect the floorboards - which are 18th century!
I have also had to start closing the door to the stairs and upper rooms so that she cannot get up there - which has upset Parsley Piert as now he no longer has total free range and we have to carry him up and down the stairs at bed time (he sleeps in our bedroom).
Has anyone any ideas to try and install some concept of spatial awareness of litter training to her??? I am desperate!!
However we currently have a younger female bun (c12 months, neutered several months ago, no health issues name of Princess Peach Blossom) with absolutely NO IDEA of the concept of litter training. She just pees and poos wherever she happens to fancy. She is not incontinent as she knows she is doing it - and it is not a dribble wee but a proper one.
She has unsettled one of my other buns so that they are now doing this as well.
We have tried putting litter trays in three different corners and tried low rim ones just in case (though she happily jumps into trays to munch hay etc), and still she will pee wherever except in the tray .
I have tried putting her with a tray in a dog crate for a while in the hope she would then recognise this as 'her area' where she should pee - but no change.
TBH she seems to have none of the territorial and 'keep poo and pee smells in one place' instinct that most rabbits retain from wild behaviour.
Obviously we have no carpets (and the only large rug was sent to a specialist antique rug cleaner at vast expense and is now packed away).
But its beginning to affect the floorboards - which are 18th century!
I have also had to start closing the door to the stairs and upper rooms so that she cannot get up there - which has upset Parsley Piert as now he no longer has total free range and we have to carry him up and down the stairs at bed time (he sleeps in our bedroom).
Has anyone any ideas to try and install some concept of spatial awareness of litter training to her??? I am desperate!!
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