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Forum BEHAVIOR To smart for her own good

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    • skibunny8503
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        I’ve been dealing with this issue and usually I can resolve it but she just keeps doing it.  Sandy has discovered that there are little pieces of hay that fall down behind her litterbox.  I don’t know why but for some reason all the buns loooooveee the little itty pieces of flaky hay.  I think she discovered them when we take her litterbox out to clean it; she’ll go over by her hay box and start eating the pieces on the floor.  Well she finally figured out that if she moves her box she can get to them.  She’ll actually push up on the box with her nose and let it go, making lots of noise for us to know she’s moving it.  She’ll push it aside, sometimes to the middle of her cage just to get to those little pieces (even if I make a point to get all the pieces, she’ll still do it in case I missed any).  She did it last night after we went to bed and in the morning she had pooped and peed in her corner.  Good girl for always going in the same spot but bad that her litterbox wasn’t in that spot at the time.    I have no clue what to do to stop this behavior.  She doesn’t listen very well….but that’s like telling a little kid not to move the box to get to the candy when it’s so easy for him to do  I can’t bolt the litterbox down since we clean it and we can’t move it since she’ll only go in that spot and we like the hay right there. 

         

        I have a feeling I might be buying a bunch of Binkybunny products before the baby’s born so she can be distracted….she can get so bratty!  She only comes out of her cage for attention, mostly from me.  For some reason she’s hesitant around my husband.  It’s not like she was abused by men, we got her when she was only a month old and she pretty much thinks I’m her mom…follows me a lot and asks for head rubs and if she doesn’t get attention she starts getting into mischief.    I am so going to have my hands full come Jan!!  


      • Stickerbunny
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          Is her litter box connected to a cage at all, or wire bar, or anything you could tie it to? Drill a hole in the sides, tie a (safe) material through it and clip it with a metal clip so you can just unclip the ties to clean?


        • skibunny8503
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            I was thinking about some sort of clip and I just talked to my husband who’s at work and told him what she had done. He said he had an idea and he’ll set up a NIC grid on the one side so she can only get in her litter box from one spot so she can’t push it out. Give her enough time and she’ll figure something out. She might have the litter box on her head but she’ll figure it out LOL!


          • Stickerbunny
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              Haha, I am sure she will, it seems to be the best way to handle rabbits is just to out smart to be out smarted in turn. But that is one thing we love about them.


            • Molzy
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                You could also try placing some heavy bricks around the outside of the box, that way you can still lift it easily for cleaning but she wouldn’t be able to push it?

                Silly rabbits, always getting into trouble!


              • MimzMum
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                  If I had a dollar for everytime Mimzy has picked up his litterbox and moved it elsewhere so he could get at his hay crumbs and then wee in them, the Occupy movement would be demonstrating in my front yard! 0_o
                  I have to reconstruct his habitat at sometime, and I’m hoping to set him up with something that allows for a recessed divot in the floor that I can set his pans into so he can both access it easier (for his arthritic hips) and keep him from getting a hold of the thing and making a ruckus…and a bigger mess for me…with it. Of course it may be easier for him to chuck litter out this way, but maybe a screen will help with that.


                • bwild
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                    When I got Thumper I had to change what type of litterbox we used for this reason. I switched to these:
                    http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4255703
                    and haven’t had anymore problems. You can’t tell from the picture, but they have four large skid things on the bottom that keep them from moving about. They’re slightly expensive, but I know my plastic ones I was using before started to hold smell after a while, and these definitely don’t do that. Also, being stainless steel, they’re slightly heavier than most so it would make it harder for Sandy to lift it up with her nose. Of course, I don’t know what breed she is, so if she’s a flemmie that probably wouldn’t help lol


                  • jerseygirl
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                      He said he had an idea and he’ll set up a NIC grid on the one side so she can only get in her litter box from one spot so she can’t push it out.

                      heheh. I think he’s just been itching to do some NIC building.

                      Another way to do it is fix one box permanently then use another to sit inside it. So the first is like a holding caddy. That one could be secured on 2 sides if her box is situated in a corner spot.

                      Mine like those hay fines also. Maybe you can hide them in places in her pen so she can go forage for them.

                      @bwild, thanks for that link. Another member has been considering a more indestructable litter box so i’ll repost that link in another thread.

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