My 6 month old rex Nixie did the same thing for almost 2 months! It was like the poop never stopped dropping when she was running around. She’s been spayed for going on two weeks and is completely 100% using her litterbox now. I just suggest keeping her to a more confined area when you let her out, keeping a vacuum handy, or just know it’ll most likely get better once she’s spayed. Good luck!

5 months is prime time for females to become very very hormonal. Her behavior sounds totally typical and it sounds like she’s ready for her spay! Hopefully she and your boy continue to get along for the next month.

I really don’t know if there’s anything you can do other than keep cleaning up her accidents and put up with it. I would just try to contain her to a part of your house that’s easy to clean – hardwoods or a kitchen or something.

Yea she is sure to improve after you get her spayed, I love your decription of her naughtyness though!

I am now super glad that Fern seemed to have skipped the hormonal stage. With her, it’s just smooth riding for me, she has stayed pretty much the same throughout her life so far.

-You never know. You know your male rabbit which will help you during the bonding, but the female may just have been in a ‘calm before the storm’ phase during your experimental meeting. Have her spayed but be prepared to still have to go through the bonding process in all its steps. (not to be discouraging; just pointing out that one interaction is not enough to know if a bond will be easy or hard )

I turned my cage into one big litterbox. That would definitely help. I put a disposable dry baby bed mat in the cage and then put the litter on top. It makes it easy to clean and there is no smell at all.

Right now, I have a male going crazy with hormones as well, and he is a little stinker. He is thankfully litter trained, but it still smells. What I do? Well, honestly, I keep the window open and when it gets too bad, I use some lavender aromatherapy.

Do you clean the litterbox and the cage with vinegar? Because that removes the smell if it is the litterbox and cage smelling as well.

How much does she weigh? A rabbit should drink 80 ml/kg a day.

Hmm, I’m not sure what to tell you.

When I got my female, she drank a lot of water as well, and I had her checked and she was fine. Today, she doesn’t actually drink very often – there can be days between a little sip. So, it doesn’t have to be due to something bad. My female was at that time a real marker as well – she loved peing anywhere but the litterbox. I have never thought of it, but perhaps it could be in order to mark a bit more, since you have noticed your bunny started doing it at the same time she hit puberty. Or perhaps really, because she marks so much, so she is dehydrating That would make sense.

However, one of my males was put to sleep a while back, and he would drink about 5-600 ml a day (2 kg). He had renal failure. IF, it is renal failure, there is nothing to do, but most bunnies can live with renal problems for a long time as long as they just drink a lot of water. They sort of medicate themselves with water intake, and that is fine.

When she goes in for her spay, just ask the vet to check her kidney, so you don’t have to worry about it.

It will get better after her spay, Rippy.
It will take a few weeks after spaying for the odor and habits to change and until then I recommend you keep her off the carpet. Peed up carpet retains the smell for a long time. You might want to get a product that neutralizes the urine smell in the carpet. It is a vicious cycle, the urine smell tells her it is a pee spot, and so on. She needs to be moved to a surface that can be wiped up easily.
Eating a lot of hay will make a rabbit thirsty, but have her checked by a vet to be sure.

It’s a blood sample. And no need to worry. I had to tell you of course, but honestly, I don’t think that is the issue here.

Oh, by the way – molar spurs can cause excessive water intake as well. I just remembered that. It is actually quite common for a bunny to begin to drink a lot of water, when the molars are causing problems. Get her teeth checked as well.

It does not have to be a kidney problem, it is impossible to know. You might want to bring in a urine sample so they can run an analysis.
If your rabbit weighs 1.7 kg, her water intake of 150 ml is still within the normal range of 50 – 100 ml per 1 kg per 24 hrs, esppecially if she eats a lot of dry matter in the form of hay. Big poos and lots of hay-eating are actually a good thing in a rabbit.

You will want to mention this to the vet for sure.

Now I think the major problem is that she is in the same room with another bunny as she is quite nice in the other areas of the house.

Are you able to place her or him elsewhere temporarily? You might have to line her cage with thick towels just to keep the urine off her. Hopefully you can get her back on track after the spay.