I am really hoping someone on this forum can give me some advice about my female lop, Amelia, as I have reached breaking point with her behaviour. We adopted her as a companion for our existing male dutch just over a year ago. Bonding went well and they appear to adore each other – I have never witnessed any fighting since the bonding process finished and they constantly groom each other. She was spayed just before we adopted her by her previous owner, at my request and I shared half the cost (I got a copy of the records from the vet who carried out the procedure). She would therefore have been around 14 months when spayed. We litter trained her after adoption with very little fuss. She was very skittish and nervous initially as I think she had had minimal handling from her previous owner. However, over the course of the last 14 months she has grown more and more comfortable with being handled and seeks attention when I open the cage door in the morning. Both rabbits share a very large dog crate as a cage but have free run of the first floor of our house for most of the day – at least 7-8 hours every day. However, over the past 6 months she has started dribbling urine in the cage and has what the vet has called hutch burn on her feet and backside. At his suggestion we have taken her off pellets so she is only on hay (unlimited), I have put grates in their large litter trays so she is never sitting on wet litter. The dribbles she leaves in the cage are very dark brown. She will sometimes spray the walls around the cage. Today I found that she has dribbled in several places on carpet around the house as well as leaving piles of droppings in each place – this is the first time she has done that. She has had blood tests, urine analysis, x-rays, ultra-sounds and they have all come back negative. The vet has therefore ruled out urinary tract infection, bladder sludge and cancer. Arthritis is not an issue – she can move around just fine. I don’t know what else to do. I am at the end of my tether. I have spent a fortune on the vet and still have no answers. I am constantly having to clean carpets, the walls around the cage and bathe her bottom, which becomes matted and foul smelling. I love her – she is a sweet and gentle natured bun but I’m just not sure how much more of this I can take – I don’t have the time or the money to keep this up much longer. The vet is stumped and is wondering if it is hormonal/behavioural. Has anyone else come across this before??