Don’t lock her in a cage as punishment. She won’t make the connection that doing something you don’t like = getting cooped up so it’s pointless. Not to mention, quite cruel imo.

Bunnies like peeing on soft things. It’s what they do. You can try picking her up and putting her in her litter tray right before she pees but ultimately, she likely won’t stop. Best to just stop her access to your bed.

I can’t see how it would work tbh because as I said, bunnies won’t make the connection. Any hoo, the bed peeing is a common problem. If you search on Google “bunny peeing on bed binkybunny” there will be TONS of threads with the same issue. So don’t worry, it’s not just your rabbit. My rabbits haven’t jumped on my bed but I feel certain that if they did, Peanut would pee on it lol.

If she’s peeing because it’s soft, you could try putting a plastic sheet (like a shower curtain) on the bedding so it feels less desirable. If she’s peeing because it smells a lot like you and she wants it to smell like her, you could try keeping a blanket with her scent on, on the bed. I think generally most people just stop their bun from going on the bed at all tho!

When it occurs at 6am or early morning, it could be a signal that she wants food since she has woken up, or generally she wants you to be up. When it comes to associations, your rabbit most likely realizes that peeing on your bed triggers immediate action.

I mitigate this with Wick (who will pee once he reaches his waiting limit on the bed) so when he wakes me up, and I know I’m not ready to get up yet, I’ll bring him in the living room and shut the bedroom door and go back to sleep for a bit.

Whether it’s scent, territory, etc, the type of action you take afterwards is important. The cage method is not very effective as you’ve seen, so I recommend a sound cue (loud hiss) and then carrying her to her litter box. The connection needs to be obvious, which means you need to do it once she’s done it. If you come home and find pee there, just clean it up because not much you can do to make it a learning experience.

It’s easy to default a rabbit as a brat because a brat is someone who just thinks about themselves, and that’s exactly what rabbits do! But remember it’s linked to survival for a rabbit, not a shallow reason like a child. Things smelling like a rabbit makes it feel more safe. Rabbits will pee in frustration or impatience, but if it’s occuring more than three times a week, an owner should think critically about what triggers the pee and how to prevent it when possible.

Wick will pee when he’s frustrated and it’d happen so often, but after a while I learned the reasons behind them and now it happens like, once every two weeks? And it’s usually because he’s hungry at a weird time of day from sprinting too much and doesn’t get food.

I think Sarah and Wick have given some good advice already so some of what I mention will be similar. 

Moving can make a bunny mark everywhere.  Your bunny is being a bunny.   I know it’s easy for us to anthropomorphize behaviors, but it’s very important to recognize the “animal” part of the behavior, not as a human trait,  so you can find solutions that can work for what is really going on. 

Scent does play a big part in a rabbit’s world.  It is not surprising your bunny is marking everywhere in the new place. It’s a way to claim the space.  This is what their wild cousins do.  It’s their way of saying it’s their territory  – their home.   And because rabbits are group animals, they will reinforce their herd by marking where others mark.  Which is why the bed can be such an enticing place for bunnies to pee and poo.  Since we sleep their, our scent is stronger there.  Some people have techniques, like a litter box or a covering actually on the bed, others block entirely.  It really depends on the situation and the bunny. 

How long have you been in your new place?  My suggestion to anyone moving is to not allow free range right away.   To establish an area that is your bunnies, like with an xpen and gradually increase the space as litter box habits improve.   This way, you establish a “neutral” territory and their own territory they can feel secure in.  I have done this with all of my bunnies– whether it be that I got a new bunny into my existing place or if I moved existing bunnies to a new place.   This has worked very well.   My bunnies have always gone back to their space to pee/poo.    However, our place isn’t huge  — and if we had a large home or two stories, I would provide a second box elsewhere.   

Also over the last 10-15 years, we have learned so much more and continue to learn.   Advice even given in this forum 10 years ago, even from me too, may be outdated or considered incorrect today.  So it’s always a good idea to get some fresh ideas.   

Also, what works for one bunny may be totally off base for another.  

Yeah she is probably just trying to mark the new territory, as earlier people said, blocking access to bed may help

Hi Honeybunny! You said you saw other threads where locking a bunny away as punishment worked for other people. I just wanted to say that I have used the “time out” method before, with some success. However, this is not the type of situation where it would be appropriate. Also, I have never locked either of my rabbits in a carrier. I just removed them from the situation by excluding them from the area. When they still had an actual cage, Leopold did go in there for a time out from time to time, but he was never in there long. It’s important to remember that giving a bunny a “time out” is more about disrupting the cycle of an obsessive behavior, like digging in the same spot relentlessly (despite being pushed away, told no, etc.). Sometimes if you remove them from the situation for a bit, it will break the cycle and they will “forget” about digging there for awhile. However, this method doesn’t work for things like marking their territory. Bunny would not make the connection between pooping somewhere and being punished. It just doesn’t work that way.

As BB pointed out, your bunny is really just being a bunny. Marking their territory is just something they do to make themselves feel confident is what is theirs, especially if they are hormonal. But both my boys are neutered and even they still mark when something gets them worked up.

Is your bunny spayed? If not, getting rid of those pesky hormones could help.