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- 05/17/2009 at 1:15 PM
  Binkles
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  Little-Bit has been REALLY good about only going potty in her litterbox ever since I stopped feeding her on my bed. It’s been about six months now and she’s only had two accidents. Both of which were on my leg, while I was sleeping, in my bed. One of which was this morning. >/
  
  LITTLE-BIT I thought we were OVER THIS!!
  
  I’m pretty near certain that it was a social peeing. I can’t quite remember the exact circumstances surrounding the other time, but they were roughly the same: she has this regular daily routine (which has ironically saved me a few times when my alarm clock failed to go off!) 8:00am-ish, time for mommy to wake up and feed me, time for me to hop around on top of her and burrow underneath the covers and nip her butt.
  
  Only this time, peeing on my leg was added to the regimine!
  
  I promptly got up and urged her off my bed and blocked her condo access route to it so I could wash the covers. She began to binky and run around all happilly thinking she was going to get her breakfast, but of course she didn’t. >| No ma’am, not for four more hours.
  
  I hope this doesn’t become a regular pattern. I hope these two were just isolated incidents. Are there some bunnies that just pee every onece in a while like that? Any way to fix it?
- 05/17/2009 at 2:00 PM
  Sarita
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  I think if it’s not a routine with her it would be hard to fix it since you don’t know what triggers it or when it’s going to happen.
- 05/18/2009 at 6:08 AM
  Binkles
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  UGH! She did it AGAIN this morning!!!!
  
  I need to nip this in the bud, post-haste. I’m changing her feeding time from when I wake up to when I go to bed. In the mean time I guess I have to choice but to block off my bed at night until she gets used to the new schedule, as much as I hate to..
  
  Any tips?
- 05/18/2009 at 8:10 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Perhaps it is that she’s awake and ready to spend time with you and your not, so she may be showing her disapproval? Jersey purposely pees in inappropriate spots when her nose is out of joint. Be careful as changing her feeding routine may cause her to be more disgruntled if this is the reason behind her peeing.
- 05/18/2009 at 10:03 PM
  Binkles
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  I’m pretty sure it’s because I just don’t wake up and feed her soon enough, as it’s accompanied by like a half hour of burrowing, It happens almost at eight on the dot.
  
  I’ll hold off changing anything for another couple of days, mainly because she’s also currently experiencing some difficulties with ingesting too much fur right now. Don’t want to shake things up more than they have to.
- 05/19/2009 at 3:17 AM
  PEPPA GEORGIE
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  This will sound silly but can you do what you do with kids, to begin with set your alarm about ten mins before she normally comes to you and go feed her straight away as alarm is going off, and do this for a week so you get to her before she pees and also so she hears the alarm as she is being fed, then slowly move the time of the alarm by five mins each week untill it is back to normal and she will hopefully associate the alarm with feeding time and be waiting for that to go off rather than thinking she will wake you up first. Is supposed to work with kids but you never know bunnies might be similar. xx
- 05/19/2009 at 6:13 PM
  Binkles
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  She already does associate the alarm with feeding time. It’s just not early enough for her. I don’t think that setting it differently will really change anything.
- 05/19/2009 at 6:19 PM
  MooBunnay
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  The bed is a very normal place for bunnies to pee – when mine had free range of the bedroom they did it too. My guess would be that it is more of a territorial marking then a disapproving. The bed and the couch are the most popular places for bunnies to pee, because they smell the most like us AND they are very comfy places, so the bunnies like to “claim” those as their own. In the end, I had to block the bunnies off from the bed. When they were un-supervised but out I would put a plastic shower curtain over the bed and they didn’t like to jump up on that so they stayed off the bed. Then, at night I had to put an ex-pen up around the bed….so basically it looked like I lived in a pen in THEIR room, haha.
- 05/19/2009 at 7:31 PM
  Binkles
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  I’m pretty certain that it’s not a territorial thing. I’m pretty sure she does it to wake me up, as it has happened literally within the same half hour all three times. 7:30 – 8:00, which is roughly when I get up and feed her. She also nips me in the butt and digs in my legs.
  
  x| It really is to wake me up, I’m almost positive.
- 05/19/2009 at 8:10 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Nice! When you mentioned burrowing, she burrows under the covers. Sometime they do that dig motion before they pee. Any clues to right before she does it? So you could left her to her box in time? I see Jersey just about to pee on the floor sometimes and can stop her by saying “Box! box!” lol. Sometimes…more often not! I wonder if she’s claiming you, bit like the complimentary spraying – ugh. I keep thinking of babybunsmum’s Baby peeing on Bogart. It appear an affectionate thing.
- 05/19/2009 at 9:05 PM
  Binkles
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  Well see most of that morning routine is normal. 7:30- 8:00ish she starts hopping around the bed, burrowing under my covers, nipping me in the butt, jumping onto my stomach/ chest/ face really hard etc. She’s been doing all of that consistently for a while now -about 3 months, same time every morning. She just added peeing to the schedule. I don’t really want to redirect her to her litterbox when she starts doing her normal things because 1. I don’t mind her digging/ burrowing/ hopping etc. every morning and actually enjoy it, and 2. I don’t think that her digging/ burrowing etc is directly related to her peeing. I think her peeing is more of a last resort to get me up.
  
  She burrows in the bed all the time without my being in it and she doesn’t pee. And she burrows in my bed all the time WITH me in it and doesn’t pee. It’s just during that specific time frame when she’s using burrowing as a mechanism to wake me up that she pees.
- 05/19/2009 at 9:48 PM
  jerseygirl
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  I see. Well you could allow her this play and if she pees on the dot – maybe then scoot her into the box just before? Otherwise, I don’t know what to suggest. I can see you want allow her the time though – sounds cute!
- 05/19/2009 at 10:18 PM
  Binkles
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  I think that since it’s a fairly new development I’m just going to block off her access to my bed at night while I’m asleep for a week or two. Hopefully she’ll forget the behaviour.
  
  Does this sound like something that may work since she only just started peeing? If not I suppose I’ll have to change her feeding schedule and develop a new signal for “feed time!” like Pavlov. -_-;
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