bunnys marking is WORSE after spay!

[Yasmin&Quozl]

 

  My rabbit Quozl was fairly good re. peeing, she’d do it maybe once or twice a week in the same spot (tried putting a litter tray there, she’d mark beside the litter tray), and she’d be out in my flat most of the day and only left poos in her cage until about 8 pr 9 pm every night, then she’d do a load on one particular rug, I’d put her back in her cage, and a few hours later she’d come out and be fine again – a weird routine, but I could handle it fine.

Now, she just got spayed one week ago. For the first 4 days I kept her in her cage to limit her mobility so she wouldn’t pull her stitches. She’s been let out for the last three days… the first day she marked twice. The second day she marked twice. Today she’s only been out for two hours and she’s marked three times – and one of them was ON ME which she has NEVER done!

What on earth is going on?? I’m hoping it’s just a change in hormones causing it (though surely it would mean less marking rather than more after a spay?) and hoping it’ll stop when her hormones have settled down…

But for how it’s so exhausting, i’m disabled so herding her back into her cage and cleaning up takes a ridiculous amount of my energy… And I can’t help but be offended that she just snuggled up to me for strokes and ear rubs and then turned her bum to me and PEED on me. Not cool!!

Any one elses bunny done this after a spay?

[Bam]

This is actually quite common! It is known as a post-spay craze and will often affect a newly desexed bunny. All sexually driven behaviors like pee-and-poop-marking, spraying, humping, cage-aggression and nipping get worse for a while after the surgery. It generally subsides after a month in a girl but can take longer. It’s normal. I’m not sure about the mechanism behind it, but it has to do with the sex-hormones that are still circulating in the blood even after their target organs are gone and there’s no new production by the ovaries (because the ovaries are gone -obviously). The bunny can’t help it, hormones are very powerful. They eventually break down though.

[Yasmin&Quozl]

Thanks bam! Good to hear it’s all normal

[LittlePuffyTail]

Hope your girl settles down soon!

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