Can you temporarily put a litter pan in the old room where it used to be and slowly move it out of the room?

Ah, yuck, that’s always a mess… Sadly bunnies can get very upset when something changes in their environment, but it doesn’t have to mean she’s upset with you. It’s just that bunnies don’t cope well with change. Even fixed bunnies will often have a lapse in habits when a major change happens.

Picture it like this: a rabbit is all about survival, and in case of emergency they’ll need to find their way to safety blindly and without thinking about it. Moving furniture around, or other changes in surroundings, messes up their mental picture of their living space. It may look the same to us humans, and it’s easy for us to get a good oversight of a living space, but rabbits don’t rely on their vision as much as we do. Rabbits act more on sound, touch and smell. Your new room doesn’t smell like her yet, and she may be trying to fix that.

You can try soaking up a bit of urine with a tissue or some toilet paper and putting it into her litter box. Let her investigate it for a bit, and shower her with praises and treats when she does it in the right place. It may be that she chooses another spot for her litter box in the new room, follow her lead if it’s possible.

You might need to confine her to a pen in the new space until she gets “organized” again. It also might help to keep litter boxes in both places, as she might always remember the old room as a potty-spot.