Confusing Rabbit!

[Sayuri]

Grace REALLY likes to keep me guessing! She has2 homes, one with me and one with my boyfriend and most of the time she is with me but her first week with us was spent at my boyfriends.

We were here for about 6 weeks and she pooed everywhere when she was out of her cage. When we went to my boyfriends she was a little angel and only pooed in her cage and would get back in her cage to poo...I think she did the same when she went to stay with my friend for the weekend this weekend. I thought FANTASTIC she has litter trained herself and she was going to be much nicer to have out when she was at home. HOWEVER she has been home nearly a week and she keeps going on my sofa to poo and not into her cage, which is closer to her in my flat than it is when we are in my boyfriends house.

Does anyone know why she does this and how I can get her to revert back to the modal bunny she was last week?

 

[clarzoo]

First, clean the spot she is going poo on your couch very well. She can still smell that spot, so she thinks it is ok.

Second, put another (or more than one) litter box outside her cage in the areas she spends a lot of time. Sometimes they get lazy and don't want to go aaaaalllll the way back to their cage Silly bunnies.

When she is at your boyfriends or friends does she have less out ofc age time, or a smaller area she can access? If so, the extra litter box might fix the problem.

 

[Sayuri]

When she is at my boyfriends - and a little angel - she has more out of cage time as it is easier to watch her in his house. The space she has is actually bigger as she has 2 rooms and the room she is in the most isn't the one her cage is in so she has further to hop back to there than she does here to pee or poo.

I changed the throws on my sofa, realizing that she had peed on them,and 5 minutes later she had peed on the clean throw and pooed EVERYWHERE! She then preceded to poo all over my other sofa! She Doesn't poo as she is hoping around the living room, just on the sofas.

Its a huge shame because I want her to be able to be out all of the time when she is here but I cant watch her every second and if I take my eye off of her she is pooing or peeing on something or she is destroying my carpets! It would just be so great if I could explain to her that if she is good she can be out all the time!

She is being such a sweet bunny this week, last week my boyfriend was calling her Hanibal because she was being such a little demon bunny,which I am putting down to bunny teenage tantrum as we think she is now about 4 months old...we were told when we got her that she was 8 weeks old but after seeing some other mini lop 8 weeks old kits last week we are pretty sure she was at least 10 if not more....unless she is a different breed than we were told also,that she was a netherland dwarf lop, which doesn't exist so she could be a donkey for all they know!!

clarzoo wrote:

First, clean the spot sheis going poo on your couch very well. She can still smell that spot, soshe thinks it is ok.

Second, put another (or more than one) litter box outside her cage inthe areas she spends a lot of time. Sometimes they get lazy and don'twant to go aaaaalllll the way back to their cage Sillybunnies.

When she is at your boyfriends or friends does she have less out ofcage time, or a smaller area she can access? If so, the extra litterbox might fix the problem.

 

[JadeIcing]

Maybe she considers his hom hers and when she comes back to yours she needs to make it VERY clear this place is hers to.

 

[bluebird]

Holland lops are often refered too as Dwarf lops.love your post (could be a Donkey for all they know)bluebird

 

[Flashy]

Maybe she sees his house as not her territory, so uses her territory as a toilet, i.e. her hutch.

At yours, maybe she sees the whole area as her territory so goes to the toilet everywhere.

Maybe start from basics with toilet training her. We trained ours by putting any lose poos in the litter tray, and also the rabbit, whenever they went to the toilet. Also, when they weed we soaked up the wee with a tissue (before disinfecting the area, obivously) and then put the wee covered tissue in the litter tray, as well as the bunny.

This proved successful, both with tiny babies and adults.

Maybe also try using a litter tray in places that she regularly goes to the toilet, be it in the settee, or in corners or anything, so that she will start to associate the litter tray/s with going to the toilet,which might also help.

Good luck with her.