Hi Ashelee, Loki’s cage is her space so it is typical for a rabbit to protect that. Is she spayed? Spaying will help in getting her littertrained and then you wouldn’t need to scoop out her cage but rather just change her litterpan. Once littertrained Loki could also run around in a rabbit-proofed room, while you clean her habitat. In the meantime, why don’t you put your dogs away into the bathroom with the door closed while you quickly clean Loki’s cage?

Like with any surgery (animal or human) there is always a risk… With female rabbits however, it’s more risky NOT TO SPAY since they have a very, very high chance of developing reproductive cancer. Even without being spayed, many times a rabbit can catch onto littertraining.

Ashlee… Look at it this way. You are in your own home, all nice, safe and snuggley, taking a nice steamy shower, and you open the curtain to find a plumber (with full plumber crack) dismantling your toilet.

That’s kind of what it’s like when you scoop poop while the bunny’s in cage. Try to do it when she’s out having her playtime.

Hooty, that is hysterical and such a good analogy LOL.

Now I’m imagining Hooty wrapped in bathrobe hitting the plumber really hard!

LOL Hooty I totally cracked up!!!! Then started coughing uncontrollably thanks to my head cold! Now I understand what Bun really thinks of me in her cage! Ashelee, my Bun is pretty snotty about her cage as well, and I just try to let her have space in there and only mess with it when she is out in my room zooming.

Thats definitely very funny Hooty.

I was wondering is it aggression or is she playing with it?

Kay loves to play with the litter scoop – as soon as I put it down, she tosses it all over the place!
I think it is because it is not there very often and I use it so he wants to use it too!
I always give her a chance to play with it before I “get down to business”. Then she happily supervises and eats hay while I clean out the pan.

i agree with sage, that she might be trying to play, but perhaps in a semi-aggressive way. every time i sweep around mj’s cage he grunts and charges the broom. at first i thought he was scared of it because it was invading his space, but now he’ll actually run over and purposefully try to engage it even when i’m not around his cage. so now he always helps me out with my sweeping around the house.

perhaps let her grab hold of the litter scoop and play with it a bit so she knows it’s not threatening. it seems like rabbits are initially very cautious/territorial but fairly easily learn to accept something as soon as they learn it’s not a threat and they’re safe.

My black mini rex is very playful with cleaning equipment, sometimes it seems aggressive. I tried to get him to do it on video but he was much more gentle. Sometimes he hurls the dustpan or bangs it against the wall.

Jackson is a flinger with the little dustpan and broom too – Sometimes I leave them on the floor so he can pick them up and fling them. He seems so satisfied when he does.

There is also a little plastic “camp” type bowl he likes to fling around – It makes a similar sound when it hits the ground and I suspect he is playing.

Coco (his diva) doesn’t play like that at all, so I wasn’t sure what the heck he was doing at first either. But I suspect there is a play aspect.