Hmm…. I don’t know… Rabbit’s urine can range in color from yellow or orange, so it could be urine… Doesn’t look to me like dried blood – wrong shade, I think. Rabbit’s can’t vomit so that rules out that option. (Also why rabbit’s aren’t supposed to fast before surgery – there’s no reason for them to not eat before surgery since there’s no risk of vomiting/asphyxiation.)

Do you have other pets that could have made the stain or other family members that could have spilled something there?

I found this article about urine color: http://www.rabbit.org/journal/3-1/red-urine.html

I’m not sure what to tell you… rabbits excrete calcuim in their urine so I guess that could make the urine thicker – usually when the urine dries you see chalky white stuff left behind..

Have you checked your bun all over for any spots that may have been bleeding? Is there any thing that he could have injured himself on? Is he shut in his cage at night? If so, I kind of doubt that he could have bled outside of his cage… or peed outside of it like that. I would think that if he peed outside his cage, it would be sprayed all over the floor, not in a puddle like that. I don’t have any experience with intact males though, I wonder if when buns spray/mark it looks different? Anyone else know?

Btw. Your bun is so cute! I love his itty bitty ears =)

it’s just pee, rabbit pee. It’s not too far from his cage. Boy rabbits can pee straight out. It helps them spray things.

The color comes from plant pigments. Blood looks very different than that in rabbit urine.You can get urine guards.

I find Coco pees like this when she is marking, it tends to be on the heavy red orange end of the spectrum. I’ve also seen her do it when scared, but that may be a coincidence. She also feels the floor around her litter box to be her territory and will often mark it as soon as I clean too thoroughly in her opinion.

It does look like the red pee. It is brighter because there isn’t litter soaking it up.
I would look in his litter pan to see if there’s more, which is likely.

Watch his behavior closely over the weekend. If there is any change, such as lack of eating, lethargy, or appearance of straining to pee or poop, then consider having the vet check him on Monday.

Yes, I think it’s pee too. Some greens can do that and also when exposed to the air it darkens too.

Heheh I’m going to guess carrots, beet tops, red cabbage or red lettuce has been eaten lately I agree-just rabbit pee

Just wanted to add that it probably is “thicker” if it had been there overnight, as it dries, and the moisture evaporates, it’s going to thicken up before it dries completely.

Ha, this thread got me to thinking about how many times I’ve read the following posts:

‘OMG is this blood??’ nope, it’s pee
‘OMG his poop is squishy!!’ diets too rich, and those are cecals…
‘OMG he ate the cover off my book!’ join the club
‘OMG she ate a button off the remote!’ we have a buttonless remote photo gallery somewhere

Bunny slaves are soooooo predictable 🙂

Bun’s pee sometimes turns into that shade if I don’t clean it off the carpet fast enough – it’s orangie just like that, well first its a normal pee shade, then turns orange. I freaked out too at first and thought she was peeing blood or something. So yup pretty sure it’s just tinkles! And don’t worry about posting pictures of pee, I was posting a picture of Indy’s genitals to get help sexing him lol.

I’m such a dork..the first time I saw a bunny pee that WASN’T red I actually asked what it was doing…lol

Just as an fyi, before my first rabbit passed, she had bloody urine. The blood, however, didn’t seem to really mix with the urine all that easily so I’d see this ‘two tone’ color happening. Although it isn’t always a way to gauge things, I don’t tend to stress red urine unless it has multiple shades in it.