Aaargh! Anyone else's bun like to pee on the human's bed?

[briemommy]

Ok, so Brie just jumped on top of me and the laptop and erased everything I typed. I guess she didn't want me saying bad things about her! :bunnydance:

You can't stop me, Brie.

So the boyfriend and I have been sick with the flu, and during that time, Brie found her way on to our bed. You'd think since she couldn't get sick from us that it'd be great to have some bunny cuddles while being delirious and achy, right? Nah.

Aaaand she just did it again. As I was typing. Peed on our bed. :headsmack

Anyway, in the last week she got the fitted sheet, the flat sheet, the comforter, and the blanket. (Eeee, she just voluntarily laid down beside me and cleaned her paws!) We were too sick to do laundry so we just did with less and less until we were down to sleeping in bath towels, throws, and a Snuggie. I finally sprayed everything down with Nature's Miracle and we got the wash done. I figured, "Ok, it's my problem." Maybe she was telling me I needed to clean out her litter bins.

I waited until now to ask for help cause now I've done everything I can think of. I took out her litter last night, changed the roaming room bin this morning before letting her out, and placed a large piece of fabric over the bed that's permeable on the top side but not the bottom so her pee wouldn't burn her. I was reeeally hoping that it would just be a precautionary measure. As of this writing, from 8am, I've had to shoo her off twice and take to the piece of fabric with Nature's Miracle. At least it wasn't the comforter.

We live in a studio so I'd hate to confine her to half the space she could use, and really, she's good everywhere else (that I can tell). Just... WHY PEE ON MY BED?? We took away the boxes she used to get on the bed with. Doesn't stop her. She LOVES the bed. She will go to all lengths to get on it. She will ninja on there when my back is turned.

Is this a phase? Is she telling me she loves me? Is she saying, "Hey, go sleep on the couch. This belongs to me now. *expletive*"?

Aaaaah!!

 

[missyscove]

Some bunnies just seem to love to pee on soft things.
Is she spayed? Sometimes that can help with litter habits but it wouldn't necessarily stop this.

 

[grasspack]

My daughters bun has the best litter habits ever and when out loose playing he doesn't pee on anything. BUT, the minute she puts him up on her bed, he pees!!! So, no bed for Mr. Tebow. I haven't tried him on my bed to see if he would do it.( I hate changing beds so not worth it to me to know if he would pee on mine or not0 He is neutered too. Little Buggar!!!

Dang good thing he is cute.

Alice

 

[whitelop]

As Christina said, sometimes they do love to pee on soft things. She's probably marking your bed to say that its hers, but you keep changing the sheets so she has to do it again! My bun likes to pee on the couch, I think its because she doesn't get up there a lot because the living room isn't her room, and it smells like me. So she wants it to smell like her too.

If she's not spayed, getting her spayed might help. Or if she is, she may just have a bad habit. How are her litter habits normally?
I would try squirting her with water when she gets on your bed, that way she will learn to not get up there. Or if you can block your bed off from her.
Someone else may be able to help you better.

 

[MikeScone]

I don't know how long you've had Brie - sometimes rabbits will pee on things which are closely associated with their new humans as they get used to the new territory and new companionship.

As you can see in her first blog, Natasha used to pee in my lap and next to me on the couch, and once or twice on my bed as well, when she first came to live with me. That tapered off over time, and after a few months she stopped and has never done it since. I never figured out if it was nervousness, territory marking or training her human.

Scone (RIP) peed on my bed and my son Joe's, just once, each, when he was a little kit soon after we started letting him out of his cage for extended times. I think he figured he'd made his point with each of us, and it wasn't necessary to do it again.

 

[BobZ]

Hi, I'm pretty new to owning bunnies but my little bucks does almost the same thing, exept she will only pee on my bed and not my moms or grans beds. She will pee on "her" couch but nowhere else in the house, other than her litter box. I think that she is just marking that as her space.

 

[Troller]

Some rabbits just find a space irresistible for marking. There is a corner in my rabbit room, outside Conan's cage, that he marks all the time. I blocked it for over a month and Conan didn't pee anywhere else. At one point I decided to open the space and see if he forgot the spot. He ran in, binkied like crazy as poop pills exploded out of his butt per jump and he peed more then I've ever seen him do before. He was happy! Heh, well I let it go on for 2 days, putting down pads each time but I realized that his litter habits we're deteriorating and he just wouldn't stop so I blocked it off again. Now, no problem and everything is back to normal. I just guess some spots are just popular for a rabbit.

Oh, and as someone asked it Brie is spayed? It might be hormonal. My Conan isn't neutered, but then I've heard rabbits who were fixed still had certain spots they regarded.

 

[Imbrium]

there's something about beds and couches, heh. even bunns who have exceptional litter box habits everywhere else have been known to pee on a bed or couch >.>

your best bet is to block access, for example by using a playpen or fencing made from NIC grids around the bed so she can't get on it.

 

[littl3red]

Teddy used to pee on my bed like every day. She finally got over that, thank goodness. I just kept changing and changing the sheets and I guess eventually she was like "okay, fine, it's yours." Now she sleeps in bed with me.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Neutered or not sometimes the like to mark.

 

[lauratunes12]

Faith used to pee on us. :nonono:

She hasn't done that in a while, but she does still pee on the corners of the couch, in the one spot where the towels we put down don't cover.

I say another marking thing.. Might just be a phase.

 

[agnesthelion]

Imbrium wrote:

there's something about beds and couches, heh. even bunns who have exceptional litter box habits everywhere else have been known to pee on a bed or couch >.>

your best bet is to block access, for example by using a playpen or fencing made from NIC grids around the bed so she can't get on it.

Yup! Totally agree. It's beds and couches!!!

Agnes went through a couch peeing stage but since she's been spayed (knock on wood) she's never peed there again.

Archie, my male I rescued a month ago, has never had a pee accident yet (double knock on wood)

 

[sugarbunnies]

I have not had a bun pee on my bed, but then again I have only had one on my bed for more than a few seconds (Mischa will jump out of my lap onto the bed, as it is only a few inches away from my computer chair); I pick her up and put her back down. However, my first rabbit did poop on my bed. I don't like to allow bunnies on my bed just because they will probably try to mark territory by peeing, and I am not fond of pee on my sheets! ;-)

However, if they did not pee, I'd love to have them on my bed.