litter training

[Skipper]

Our Polish Dwarf is about 8 weeks old now....He likes to jump on the sofa and pees and poops on it..........Is there a spray that will stop him from doing this..........?????


We have tried scolding...........spraying..........and all the ideas that we have got off the forum, but nothing works.


I'm not referring to the spray that is suppost to keep and animal off the furniture.

We want the rabbit to have the run of the house.

 

[hiphopsmommy]

rabbits are very stubborn when they are young..just keep working with him..it takes time..if you get him neutered he won't spray any more though

 

[naturestee]

I'm having the same problem with my 3.5 month old Netherland Dwarf, Mocha. The difference is he chose my bed :shock: The only solution I could find was to ban him from my bedroom temporarily. I'll give him another chance after he's been neutered.

 

[ayglnu13]

Hello! Hereis agreat site about litter box training

http://www.rabbit.org/faq/sections/litter.html

Hope it helped

~Amy

 

[p1rat3]

My Netherland dwarf (6 months old) was doing this exact thing. The reason I think she was doing it was because on the couch is where the other rabbit of ours was most of the time. She never peed anywhere else but the box or the couch. If you do not have another rabbit, maybe it is trying to show domimance to something else that spends time there?

I might post on this somewhere else, but she used to run past him and wee right on him! I think she was mad at him, or showing dominance. She woud clean him and then ask to be cleaned and he would not. He was very young then though (about 2 months).

She is trying to be the dominant rabbit (he is only 3 months old now amd bigger than her). But, she was just spayed and has not been on the couch much, but does seem to be better now. That said they have not spent any real time together since she has been fixed.

Jay

 

[yokas1141]

I feel kind of lucky. I got my bunny from a pet store and started to try to litter train her the same day I got her and by the next day she was pretty much using her litter box. Now she uses it all the time.

 

[Kricket]

yokas1141 wrote:

I feel kind of lucky. I got my bunny from a pet store and started to try to litter train her the same day I got her and by the next day she was pretty much using her litter box. Now she uses it all the time.

I got my buns from a reptile store. They were feeder bunnies...any hoo...I've been incredibly lucky as well, as my buns took to the litter box on the first night at home

 

[yokas1141]

Its great how smart bunnies can be eh? I'm getting a new bunny tomorrow so I'm hoping to have luck with it too