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FORUM BEHAVIOR Spraying/Honking/Biting

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    • Jes
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        Hey all, to start this off, Freddy is un-neutered, but I’m planning on getting him neutered the next week or so. He was so good before he hit puberty, but now he sprays me when he gets too excited. He runs around honking (even whistling) and nipping me and then sprays whenever I touch him or play with him. I’m tired of washing everything, and the smell of his spray has gotten progressively worse. It’s now coming out a milky orange color and it’s really really bad smelling. The question is, will the spraying stop after neutering him?? It’s getting ridiculous. Like two or three times a day and I can’t have him free range anymore in the house if he’s going to stink it up. I really don’t want to lock him away. Please help.


      • Mikey
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          It might take a month or two for the spraying to stop after being neutered, and your bun might still spray every once in a great while (like during spring/hormonal phases)


        • Bam
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            As a rule spraying does stop somewhere between 2-8 weeks after a neuter. Sometimes soone. My Yohio could pee 3 feet up the wall, after his neuter he never sprayed again. But as Mikey says, some neutered buns will spray occasionally esp when the days start getting longer in the spring.

            A neutered bun’s pee smells much less bad than an intact bun’s, but cloudy orange or red urine is normal in all buns and it’s mainly food dependent. Excess calcium is expelled in the urine of rabbits, most other animals expel calcium via the poop. It’s calcium that makes the urine cloudy/milky. The color of rabbit urine is often from plant pigments. Dandelion can give very red pee f ex, but that too is normal and harmless.

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