From my personal experience, a rabbit’s diet can impact the smell they give off in general. When I first adopted my 2nd rabbit, female (spayed), she smelled as well. I think it was a result of the pellets they gave her, as the smell generally went away after 2 to 3 months.

Her poop is very strong smelling though. It is the characteristic onion smell you may have heard of. I think perhaps it’s something about females and potentially the fact that shes not the only rabbit there? I have another rabbit and they live next to each other. Even though she has great litter habits, her poops still smell very much like territorial poos.

I’ve only had my 2 rabbits, but Elmer’s (male) poop does have that onion smell a little, and Ruby’s doesn’t smell at all. Just some perspective that it’s not always the female that smells worse :p   The smell doesn’t seem to go past their room, so in my case (or my nose got used to it), the hay smell is stronger and kind of covers it up. I used to put one of those solid air fresheners in the room and that seemed to help.

I also live in an apartment. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s any way to control it aside from cleaning the box of the poo….

@Susanne – thanks for mentioning Elmer! It’s good to know there are males that show this as well.

Is your female spayed? Un-castrated bunnies are very stinky.

I think Wick is probably right then about it being diet-related. Excess protein in the diet (usually due to soy or alfalfa in pellets) can cause stinkier pee as well.

New bunnies can also be stinkier “intentionally” for territorial reasons! Those onion poops tend to be territorial poops, and they can also expose their scent glands which can make everything smell stinky!