Bratty Bunny!

[MsMabel]

My sweet husband was okay with it (after a quickshower and a clean shirt) but I'm pretty ticked at her. She's3-4 months old now (we don't know exactly how old she was when we gother). We're fairly sure she's a "she" since there's a "taco"when you sex her. She's always been the sweetest bun untilnow.

I know she didn't pee just because she had to- she had just peed a minute earlier...right next to her litter box :X.

My poor husband! He'd just been feeding her parsley andhanging out with her while he watched tv and I cleaned hercage.

This bunny is in the dog house. What do we do? How do we prevent this?

btw- no vets I've talked to will spay her yet. The ones thatwill spay her at 6 months act like they'd rather not do surgery on arabbit. There are no exotic vets near here (I've looked onthe house rabbit website).

 

[Shuu]

She could just be trying to mark him as herterritory. You can't really get mad at her for it. She didn't mean anywrong. If it was agression it would've been preceeded by a nip or afoot thump. Try not to be so hard on her.

 

[MsMabel]

So, if she's marking him as her territory then do we expect her to do this to him more often? Other people?

(we're really not being that hard on her. She got a peice ofcarrot when she got back to her cage and she's a happy bunny:bunnydance

 

[Shuu]

She may, but she may also not. It can be hard totell what's going on inside their heads. Just be sure to get her fixedas soon as time allows and it should stop. Otherwise live through it ortry not to have her on your lap as much.

 

He'd just been feeding her parsley and hangingout with her while he watched tv and I cleaned hercage. *******

This sounds like a happycontent bunny with her human ,so nature took over and she marked him ashers ,
I dont think theres a one of uswho hasnt been peed on poopedon or sprayed :X by ahuman posessive bunny , It usually meansthey like you , She may not doit every time and as for not holding heras often BUNKO! hold her as much as youplease , the morehuman contact the better , besides a littlepee is easy to clean up ,

 

[Shuu]

gypsy wrote:

It usually means they like you, She may not do it every timeand as for not holding her as oftenBUNKO! hold her as much as you please ,the more human contact thebetter , besides a little pee iseasy to clean up ,

Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean don't give her as much attention. Ijust meant that if it were to become a problem where they may not wantit to happen every time there's alternatives to play and attention.Also stating there wasn't much they could do about it in the way ofcorrectional discipline.

 

[proxima centauri]

Marvin has taken the same habbit lately... hehappened to just have peed on me tonight... I saw the stream coming andgrabbed him before he did too much damage... I guess I damagecontrolled

He did it after I stopped petting him... he jumped on my belly,thumped, turned around, and peed. Soooo.... is that agression? need forattention? dunno... but... I know tomorrow we'll call the vet for afix... and I'll try to keep Marvin away from my belly

 

[CorkysMom]

When Corky was so sick he was having moretrouble controlling that stuff, I learned to sit with him with a towelon my lap....he rarely (or any of the others) has accidents...but ithelps alot...also helps with nails on the skin when wearing shorts!

 

[MsMabel]

Thanks everyone. I'm really hopingthere won't be a repeat occurance but we're holding her over a toweljust to be safe. If only those floppy ears weren't so darncute...she's still got us wrapped around her little bunny paw.