Popping in her bed….

[Mike]

So, yesterday I set my bunny up in a new hutch (indoor)… It’s a 2 story hutch (50″ long, 26″ wide and each story is 20″ tall). I have it set up with the litter box on the ground floor in the rear left corner with her hay cage right above it, her water bottle in the front left corner and her pellet bowl next to that…Upstairs I have a fleece blanket on the floor and in her enclosed area I have her bed. The bed is like a fluffy cotton. So anyway, there’s plenty of poop and pee in her litter box, a few, maybe 4-5 poop balls on the ground floor carpet, but then in her bed, she pooped and peed yesterday and then again this morning she pooped in her bed. Her original cage was a 36″ standard metal cage with Kaytee clean and cozy bedding covering the whole floor. In there she only pooped and peed in one corner, the rear left corner, when she came out she never pooped on the carpet in the room I let her out in, she always went back in her cage. In her new hutch I figured i’d try litter in her litter box, so I put Kaytee critter litter in it. What do I do?!?!?!?

[JackRabbit]

She’s probably marking everything in her new area. You may need to clean her bed with a white vinegar/water solution and wash it so she doesn’t continue to pee on it. She may or may not poop on the bed though. My Kieko keeps her condo very tidy, but she likes to have a poop pellet or two on her bed so everyone knows its hers.

[Mike]

Posted By JackRabbit on 4/07/2015 9:54 AM

She’s probably marking everything in her new area. You may need to clean her bed with a white vinegar/water solution and wash it so she doesn’t continue to pee on it. She may or may not poop on the bed though. My Kieko keeps her condo very tidy, but she likes to have a poop pellet or two on her bed so everyone knows its hers.

Thank you! I will try the white vinegar/water.

[Mike]

Ok, my wife took the bed out to wash it, and during that time the bunny pooped and peed where the bed was. Maybe she just likes that spot. Do you think I should put a second litter box up there or just put the disposable bedding on the floor up there???

[LittlePuffyTail]

I would try the litter box there. Can’t hurt. And some bunnies really like to chose their own spot.

[Mike]

Ok, well heres the deal, lol… After her bed was washed, I put it in and she immediately went upstairs and pooped/peed in it, so… I took the bed out, put bedding in the same area her bed was in and she poops/pees in the bedding. She eats her hay downstairs in her litter box and runs upstairs to poop/pee.. Oh well, I guess i’ll live with that, lol.

[JackRabbit]

I wonder what would happen if you moved the hay and litterbox up to the spot upstairs where she likes to poop/pee? We tried putting litterboxes and hay on two of Kieko’s 3 levels. She poops and pees in the litterbox on the top level and naps in the litterbox on the 2nd level. We finally just took the hay out of the “napping” litterbox. Once she established her spot, we added a bed on the top level which is where she stretches out for a long sleep and also where she requires one or two poop pellets to be at all times.

[Mike]

Posted By JackRabbit on 4/07/2015 7:41 PM

I wonder what would happen if you moved the hay and litterbox up to the spot upstairs where she likes to poop/pee? We tried putting litterboxes and hay on two of Kieko’s 3 levels. She poops and pees in the litterbox on the top level and naps in the litterbox on the 2nd level. We finally just took the hay out of the “napping” litterbox. Once she established her spot, we added a bed on the top level which is where she stretches out for a long sleep and also where she requires one or two poop pellets to be at all times.

Thats probably what I am going to do, thank you. Its funny overtime I look in the hutch, there are 2-3 poop pellets on her blanket that she sleeps on. If I clean them off, she does it again, lol… Crazy bunnies…

[JackRabbit]

You’d think fur all over everything and chinning would be enough, but nope, gotta make it really obvious! Then again, one of my bunnies will chin poop!

[Mike]

We’ve had Coco for 2 weeks, the first week and a half she would come out of her cage and play and never poop on the carpet in the living room. Since I changed her cage to a much nicer and bigger hutch, she now poops on the living room carpet… I guess I really did screw her up.

[LittlePuffyTail]

My girl Olivia regularly has like 3 or 4 poops in her bed. Her bed is a cardboard box with blankets in it. She super territorial so I assume she wants the world to know that’s HER bed.

[Mike]

Yesterday when I came home from work I let her out of her hutch (when I am home she pretty much has free range in my living room) from 4pm-8pm she peed and pooped 3 times on my living room carpet…. A few people told me to put a litter box in the spot where she peed and pooped the carpet, I did that, I put some of her poop and a paper towel with her pee in the litter box also. Today again I let her out at 4pm, it’s now 7:40pm and she poked 3 times and peed 2 times on the carpet, on either side of the litter box I set up fear her. I’m starting to get at my wits end with cleaning pee off the carpet now, I don’t know what else to do. any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Mike]

Here’s her litter box with hay in it, she don’t pee or poop in here.

Here’s her bedroom, that she uses as a litter box…

And here is the room I let her free range in… You can see the litter box I set up, but all she does is sit in it, she pees and poops outside it..

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