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I agree with Dana. This may be solved by simply rethinking how things are set up.

Is he actually standing outside the box and peeing? The one accident we had was a bunny butt reaching too far over the edge of the box and he peed over the side.

As the others said, there are a number of things that could cause this. It could be a URI, a dental problem, a blocked tear duct, etc. Each ailment would require a different treatment. He needs to be properly diagnosed by a vet so he can have the correct treatment.

He looks like a very sweet bunny. I’m sure you have a bond with him. It would be a…[Read more]

Unfortunately, there are no at-home remedies that could be recommended since there is no way to diagnose what’s going on (and generally rabbit ailments cannot be treated w/ OTC medications). The symptoms you are seeing can have multiple causes, such as dental and bacterial– all of which require proper diagnosis to ensure the correct and safe…[Read more]

Im sorry you are going through this.

Id urge you to reach out to rescues and no-kill shelters asap, because after Easter, they’ll be at capacity due to abandonned gifted “Easter” buns.

Theres no shame in surrendering a rabbit.  Rabbits are fragile and high maintenance.

Rabbits can get bacterial “colds”. The snot contains complex carbohydrates…[Read more]

It can be wise to put the box in the spot the bun chooses. I once caught a stray bun (named him Yohio) outdoors, I quarantined  him in a big hutch run that I’d built as a “summer cottage” for the bun I already had. I noticed he’d pee and poop in one corner of the run, so I put a box there. He accepted the box as his toilet right away, and I think…[Read more]

What type of flooring is in her home base, and where does she have hay available? Some buns will pee wherever they eat hay, and many will pee on soft surfaces. With one of my buns I couldn’t have any blankets in her pen unless they were stretched very tightly over a firm surface, and I had to position her hay rack so she could only reach it when…[Read more]

Hi! Thank you so much for your reply!

Yes that makes more sense, considering it’s just in that area and nowhere else. I will try lowering the sides of the litterbox and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks again! 🙂

While we say rabbits can be litter-box trained, it’s actually probably more accurate to say that their natural behaviors/inclinations lend themselves to use litterboxes. In reality, they often aren’t encoding that a random rectangular vessel is where they should go, but rather we set it up in places and w/ contents that make the rabbits want to…[Read more]

I think it’s more likely he just has chosen that area as his potty spot. Buns don’t always see the box itself as the potty area, and will treat the general zone as their toilet area. One of my buns was doing this in an area just outside his box, so I added a smaller box with lower sides to that area and it solved the problem.

Hi @Bam!

He peed outside of the litterbox again today. It was a normal pale yellow, and he’s super healthy and happy as usual! But I think I may have figured out why he is peeing in that exact spot! That same spot is the spot I leave from after I have given him attention and I leave to do other things. Do you think it is possible he is peeing t…[Read more]