Ugg, so I know I posted recently that I was coping with Addy spraying and peeing and all of that good stuff…well, bad stuff.  However, he’s gotten so much worse the past few days.  I mean, it isn’t like he’s just peeing all over the house as though to mark the rooms as his territory or just potty wherever he likes.  So I like to give him more space, thus, the living room.  Frankly, if i wasn’t here, he would be a perfect rabbit…give or take a few poops and  chewing my sister’s table (Don’t tell her he does that, haha )…though I’m certain he mainly only poops around me or where I’ve been–mostly when he’s chinning me. 

Today, he probably sprayed me a good 4-5 times in a matter of five or so minutes.  I mean, I understand it could be just that I’m giving him too much space, but he’s also sprayed me when I was reaching into his cage to get out a piece of wood and a nail that was forgotten in there during reassembly (We had used the shelf part of his cage as…a shelf…before putting it into the cage and forgot to clean everything off of it).  Got my top half, as one would image.   And even when we’re in the basement where he’s been so great, he wents to jump up on my lap and pee and poop when we’re watching movies (the last such occasion got my sister’s rug wet…and she was not happy at all )  It seems like once he’s comfortable in an area, or if I’m bothering him, the spraying begins.  I was nudging him with my foot one day to get him to stop doing something bad, and he sprayed my leg.  Maybe it’s not a love spray afterall?  But then I think about today, and I was just sitting here at the computer and he comes upstairs, hops under the desk, and lets loose.  Then, after I wipe up the mess, and walk back over to him, he sprays me again.  Etc. etc.

When I scold him or ”thump” at him, he often just likes to…hey, let’s just spray her again!  So, I resort to putting him in timeout like a good parent.  I fear the message might be lost on the way downstairs though.  I do the “push the head to the ground and cover for five seconds” thing, but I’m thinking that doesn’t mean much to him…maybe I’m doing it incorrectly, because it seems like he’s thinking it’s a rough sort of head petting.  Personally, I would probably just clean up the messes till the cows come home (or till I go insane), but my family isn’t as uncaring about some old carpet as I am.  And, any negative things they say about Addy are things that I take personally.  For one thing, I’m the one who raised him, and for another, I should have this problem fixed by now…

I guess I just ignore it when he’s being good and then get extremely frustrated when the habit shows up again.  Plus, it doesn’t do me any good in terms of calling rabbits amazing when I am asking my parents to let me get him a friend.  I’ve gone as far a peddling the idea that maybe if he had a friend he wouldn’t focus so much attention on finding and peeing on me.  Meeeh.  He was humping his stuffed friend again today…which I haven’t seen him do for awhile since we moved (He always humped (I named her Magnificent Poof) at home whenever I walked into my bedroom.  I think he would start honking then run to the bottom floor of his cage and have at it.).