How old is he?

That is usually hormonal and, all mature males and, a lot of females will spray. It’s simply marking the territory. Really the only way to minimize it is to have him neutered. Now leaving it sprayed (not washing his cage) would minimize it temporarily but, then you have to put up with the smell of a buck with a well marked territory and, that can be unpleasant in a house, to say the least. I’d advice making the appointment and having him neutered. It isn’t terribly hard on males and, is easier on the when they are younger rather than older.

Ha ha. Yeah I’d say his hormones are now officially an issue. Neuter ASAP and life will be good and pee free. At least on the walls, although my male/female pair got naughty and someone sprayed at one point. I blame Charlie, but they won’t tell me for sure.

If you do end up deciding to neuter, I would call around to shelters/rescues that accept rabbits and see if any of them can recommend a good low-cost neutering option – “a few hundred dollars” sounds awfully high for a neuter (I paid around $465 for two spays and neutering is usually a good bit cheaper).

Spaying is incredibly important because of females’ proclivity towards reproductive cancers; however, any potential health benefits of neutering males are negligible at best, so intolerable hormonal behaviors and/or wanting to bond them to another rabbit are really the only reasons you’d *need* to neuter a male.  Fair warning, they can potentially spray pee six feet into the air (and many males like to aim for faces), so you might want to be ready to book him for neutering in the event his spraying escalates .

In this particular situation, I suspect the air freshener is probably to blame.  If the new smell is what set the spraying off, then it’s entirely possible that it won’t continue.  Failing that, from what I’ve heard, once they reach the one-year-old mark, most unaltered rabbits’ hormonal behaviors tend to die down quite a bit.  If he’s freshly hormonal (3-6 mos range), then there’s a decent chance the behavior will escalate… however, if he’s closer to a year old, the chances are good of hormonal behaviors remaining minimal for him .