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Agree with Wick & Fable, buns do seem to love peeing on beds. I know some members have had success with putting a plastic shower curtain over the bedding with a thin blanket on top. This blocks the smells from the bed so it can reduce marking and also makes accident clean up easier.

Inherently, beds are a very attractive and tempting place for even the most litterbox adherent rabbits to mark because it is comfy and so scent-filled. There is honestly little you can do to stop it aside from limiting bed time and/or putting a literal litterbox on your bed to attempt redirecting the behavior.

I think w/ this being concerning the throat/neck muscles and potentially respiratory issues, unless you spend the resources to do some imaging, we will unlikely be able to pinpoint an answer. I recommend another vet visit considering the increased frequency and discuss what diagnostic testing may be informative. There could be something…[Read more]

I should add that she’s doing really well otherwise. Great appetite, no weight loss, lots of energy. You’d never guess she’s as old as she is. I’m not sure if this is something I should be super concerned about.

I honestly have no idea. When she does it it’s only once or twice and then she’s good. I’ve brought it up with two different vets and neither seemed concerned but now it’s happening more frequently and I don’t have any idea what it could be, especially since she’s doing it while not even drinking now.

Hmm… could she be aspirating when she drinks?

As LBJ says, if you have metacam (meloxicam), you can give that. A lot of the symptoms that ec causes are believed to come from tissue inflammation. The ec parasites multiply inside the cells until they get so many that the cell bursts, and the body reacts with inflammation. This  inflammatory response can be very powerful. NSAIDs like metacam…[Read more]

No, but a NSAID would at least help with any internal inflammation.