I tried typing this in last night and my PC froze (no, it’s not fixed yet…argh) so I’ll try to paraphrase what I can recall of my post.

It’s been months now, and Pip is still making very skunky stinks as it pleases her to do so. She’d almost stopped peeing inside her night habitat (something Mimzy is STILL doing despite two weeks straight of Baytril, so it’s not a UTI for him) but I now find either her bedding or her hay has been weed on every other day or so. I’ve even tried changing, limiting or eliminating laundry soaps in case that might be the problem. We’ve also tried a few different hays. No luck.

She skunked me in particular last evening when, while she was in the xpen by herself, I came in to do a little grooming. Not only was she singularly uncooperative (she usually enjoys a good groom and will furiously wash whatever is in front of her while being combed) but she also kept giving off these skunky smells as she’d zoom by me. I still managed to get her groomed, but haven’t checked her scent glands yet. I also need to trim her nails. I really don’t know how she got a purchase on the floor last night with how long they are. But she’s not having any of me grabbing her feet right now.

The last few days were so pungent, I was certain that it was Jenna (Yorkie) peeing on my bed. (She’s been treated for some random infection herself this last week, but that has passed and I still smell something ‘off’ in the room). I’ve cleaned everything, but the only time I didn’t have a bad smell in my room was when Pip was out in the xpen last night, and only when I wasn’t in there with her did I not smell skunk.

I have found in the past that cleaning Pip’s anal glands only keeps her personally from smelling bad, but doesn’t seem to affect this ‘shooting stink’ she gives off. And between she and Mimzy and their ‘war o’ water’ they seem to be engaged in lately, I don’t know if they are marking territory against each other, marking territory because they want to be back together, or if Pip is just ill in general. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear she wasnt’ spayed at all with how bad it is getting…she is acting more like an intact female. There’s been some chraging and aggressive honking at me as well. Can a normally friendly bunny become suddenly obnoxious like this for no other reason than she’s just getting on in years? I mean, I’ve had every other pet in this house to the vet more than once this year (it’s been a rough seven months)…although I think she did go in for a checkup with Mimz one of those times and the vet didn’t find anything wrong with her except that she is a bit heavy. And yesterday morning she did one of those machine gun sneezes that Mimzy used to do. (Oh great.) Usually I’d say Pip is the most socail of my bunnies, and while she was out in the xpen, she was happily periscoping and checking things out, chewing on her grass mats, pooping all over (no peeing) and thumping whenever the hubby walked in because she doesn’t like him. But when she gets back in her night pen, all the nastiness begins again. She was a bit calmer last night right after her outing, so I’m thinking she may no longer want to live in the bunny room with the other two and me and the dog. (Can’t really blame her for that, but I wanted to bond her to both Mimz and Fiver.)

What’d I do to make her so cranky with me?Could it just be me she wants to bugger off? Or is it something else? Anyone have any ideas?