Hello BB members! It’s been such a long time since I’ve been on this site, I hope some members can still remember me and my bunnies. Im Elizabeth, Im 22, and last I was on this site I was a bun mom to Hammer, Lucy, Mae, and Felix. Im sorry to report that Felix, Hammer, and Mae, all passed within the last year. They had good lives and were loved, and are still missed. Hammer and Lucy were a bonded pair, and when Hammer passed Lucy began having some depression related issues, but about 8 months later she is doing much better and handling the loss appropriately. She really started improving when we introduced Quinn to the household. Quinn is a young bun that was bought as a gift to a teenage girl in my boyfriends family. Obviously, that gift required more work than she wanted, and now Quinn has a happy home with me. So now I’m a bun mom to Lucy, a 5ish year old gray lop, and Quinn, a almost 1 year old english spot.
Now to my problem. When I brought Quinn home she was PERFECT with litter habits. She was absolutely amazing, even being so young and not even spayed yet. Her and Lucy have their cages next to eachother in the bunny room (I have a bunny room! So exciting!), and neither had any territorial issues, behavioral, pee, poo or anything. Everything was great. One day Quinn dislocated her toe. We did a bandage wrap up thing for two months and a cone on her head to stop her from chewing. With the bandage and cone Quinn started to let her litter habits slip, which I figured was normal enough, I wouldnt want to move around much with a cone on my head either. So I didn’t blame her and just cleaned up the mess. After two months and the bandage and cone came off and we got a clean bill of health from the vet Quinn continued to pee outside of the box. Its been several months since her foot and toe have been healed, she got spayed, and she is still peeing out of the box. Pooing to, but thats not very concerning.
I have to give her some credit though, for two reasons. One, she is using the litter box about half the time. And two, because she is peeing NEXT TO the liiter box if not in it. She pees in front of, behind, or to the side of the litter box, whereever I put it. I have added a liiter box, and now she has two. I have tried blocking access to the hot pee spots, cutting a door in a litter box so she can walk in instead of jump, and I’ve tried a different litter. I’ve also reduced her cage to just a liiter box and small non litterbox space (1 cube by 3 cubes). None of this has worked or helped. I went to IKEA and bought brand new rugs this weekend, hoping that if they didnt smell like pee and pee cleaner, she wouldnt pee on them. Well she is peeing on them… I’m out of ideas and knowledge. Quinn is my 6th rabbit and I’ve never had this much trouble with litter habits. I would consider myself pretty rabbit savy, but I need some help on this one. She just won’t stop peeing on the rugs!
The last time I was here I lived at home with my mom, but since then I’ve moved out of Kentucky to Maryland with my boyfriend and we are renting an apartment. My worst fear from all of this is that the apartment complex will someday decide that Quinn can not stay because she is peeing so much out of her litter box. And seeing as this is the only apartment in the area that agreed to let me have my rabbits, Im a bit nervous for that. Please send the BinkyBunny magic this way, it has worked wonders in the past!
This is the bunny set up right now. Lucy’s side is on the left. Quinn is on the right. Each cage is 4.5 cubes by 4 cubes. Currently she has two litterboxs with WSP litter. I put two stone tiles on top of the spot she was peeing the most, hoping she wouldn’t pee on something that’s not absorbant. That didn’t work either.