Unneutered male humping spraying dogs

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- 06/08/2018 at 10:21 AM
  MissCottonTail
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  My local vet does neutering but the costs would be around $350-400, which in my mind is super expensive for such a small being and isn’t ideal for me right now. He is humping my dogs, which isn’t a huge deal. But now he is spraying and while in the process last night got me too! He is very affectionate, comes up and licks me. He is a free range house bunny, I keep his cage open for access to his litter box and hay. I would hate to keep him caged up because of all of this. I’ve read in other forums that neutering May or may not stop this behavior. So my question is, how can I change this type of behavior (spraying) without neutering him? TIA
- 06/08/2018 at 11:14 AM
  Sirius&Luna
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  You can’t change this behaviour without neutering, sorry. It’s purely hormonal driven behaviour, that will only be resolved by neutering. Locking him up won’t change it, because he doesn’t understand what he’s doing wrong, and is being driven by hormones. He has no choice in the behaviour.
  
  I would also be concerned that the dogs might get annoyed and accidentally harm him. Even if you don’t think they would every deliberately harm him, all that needs to happen is a dog to kick out its leg to get him off and you have a severely injured bunny.
  
  It might be worth looking into other vets, and in particular making sure that it’s a vet that is experienced with rabbits, as neutering a small rabbit is very different to a dog.
- 06/08/2018 at 11:28 AM
  sarahthegemini
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  Sorry but you can’t stop hormonal behaviour without neutering. If your choice is either neuter him or lock him up – cough up the cash. Locking him up for exhibiting hormonal behaviour is unacceptable and cruel.
- 06/08/2018 at 11:42 AM
  kurottabun
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  It’s actually more expensive BECAUSE they are small beings. Neutering a small animal is harder than a dog for example and less vets are skilled in performing such a surgery.
  
  As the others have said, locking him up isn’t going to change it and your dog may eventually get annoyed by the humping. If you can’t afford to neuter him right now you can either look for another vet who can do it for cheaper or make sure your dog and rabbit don’t see each other to prevent the humping (e.g put them in different rooms).
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