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FORUM BEHAVIOR Behavior after spay?!?!

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    • SweetBuns
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        I’m so frustrated and I don’t like to be when it comes to my bunny. She’s around 8 months and she just got spayed exactly one month ago. She was good when she came back from the vet, but this past week, she has been so bad. She is free Roam in my room, so she’s usually on the bed with me, but she kept on spraying that nasty spray, that I thought would have been gone when she was spayed. I didn’t want her to make my bed all smelly while the sheets and blankets were in the wash, so I moved the stool she usually uses to get on the bed. Well when I did that she got mad and started stomping her feet multiple times. I felt bad, but I really couldn’t have her on the bed making it so smelly like that. Lately she’s been really bad with her spraying and marking her territory, her litter habits are fine, except when I put her in her cage at night, then she poos all over. She’s just being really bad with spraying and trying to hump my leg when I’m doing something in my room. I need help?! Why is she doing this?! I thought hear hormones were suppossed to be gone?! I want to cry??


      • Bam
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          Hormones often takes longer to dissipate in girls than in boys. 8 weeks are not uncommon. Why this is isn’t completely understood I think, but it has to do with rearrangements in the body and brain due to the abrupt cessation of the production of sex hormones.

          Spraying and humping are classic post-spay “symptoms” so I think they’ll go away eventually. Disgruntled stomping is also typical. Some girls even get temporarily aggressive. Until the hormones have died down she can’t be on the bed or she will pee on it, she can’t help herself. This is not about disobedience or anything like that, she’s caught in a hormonal storm, you might say.


        • SweetBuns
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            Thank you so much! This relieved me tons!! I was thinking I was gonna have to deal with a temperamental bunny forever!

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