feeling like an aweful bunny mom

[CSoehnge]

Feeling like I am failing my buns lately. Looking at all your pics and all of the bun buns appear so well groomed and not messy poop everywhere. Then the pics I get there is poop everywhere and they look rugged. I clean their stuff constantly but all you guys have like perfect beautiful areas. What am I doing wrong? Maybe I’m just overthinking? anyways being random. I have just noticed everyones clean pics.

[Mikey]

Ive got little bunny poops all over the living room where my bunnies free roam, lol. Theres not a lot, but its scattered so it looks like more than it actually is. Perhaps its similar with your bun? As for rugged fur, can you try grooming more often? Rugged usually means shedding/moulting

[BanditCamp]

This is sometimes referred to bunny envy. Each bunny is special in his or her own way and I work really hard taking care of bandit. He’s only 3 months but he’s doing really well for a sometimes punky teen.

I set a routine for my house and you could try following it maybe? I wake up at 6 am everyday and am in bed by 11pm regardless of o have things to do or not. I feed him at about 745ish am and pm and let him play as long as I’m home. Everyday I feed fresh water and hay / pellets and on normal days I ensure that I interact with as much as possible. On special day o take care of all my chores and on grooming days i force grooming sometimes and he accepts for at least 15 minutes, I check his nails and teeth, business area, eyes and ears for anything vet worthy.

Monday – normal
Tuesday – cage clean / litter check / clean home (vacuum etc pickup scraps)
Wednesday – grooming day and health check
Thrus – normal
Friday – normal
Saturday – normal / maybe outside If nice
Sunday – normal

Here’s some vids to make you feel better

https://youtu.be/hDVYVjuOSrw

https://youtu.be/OyPHlGaAfIQ

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Posted By CSoehnge on 4/24/2017 10:51 PM

Feeling like I am failing my buns lately. Looking at all your pics and all of the bun buns appear so well groomed and not messy poop everywhere. Then the pics I get there is poop everywhere and they look rugged. I clean their stuff constantly but all you guys have like perfect beautiful areas. What am I doing wrong? Maybe I’m just overthinking? anyways being random. I have just noticed everyones clean pics.

Maybe we just post pictures after we’ve cleaned 

No seriously, every morning I come downstairs and pick up poop. My buns are litter trained but they often pull poops out when they leap out of their tray. They’re so dramatic. Sometimes there’s only 5 poops to pick up (this morning) sometimes there’s 20+. The living room (where they mainly hang out) is swept every morning and sometimes throughout the day and evening if they’re especially messy. But there’s still bits of hay everywhere. I think it’s inevitable. 

[BanditCamp]

Yeah sometimes that’s what happens is I clean. My bunny free roams and I get a poop now and then but nothing bad

[Wick & Fable]

I don’t​ think many people post pics with the poos visible on purpose, haha. Personally, on many of Wick’s lounging sofa pics, I push his territorial poops aside for the camera, haha! Also, I literally have a poop bowl in my living room where we throw the poops we find for composting later. There are poops about, no doubt.

Rabbit cleaning is a constant task, so you want to figure out what times and frequency works best for you and your bun!

The answers provided in this discussion are for general guideline purposes only. The information is not intended to diagnose or treat your pet. Seek the advice of your veterinarian or a qualified behaviorist.

[Deleted User]

I think it’s hard not to compare yourself to others when you go on a site like this. Your able to see how other people live with their buns. But everyone has their own way and everyone’s buns will be different. As long as you care for them and they aren’t neglected then who cares if there’s the odd bit of hay or poo on the floor. It’s the same as having children, your learning as you go along and you do what works and is best for you at the time. You have to start somewhere and as time goes on you get more confident and certain things don’t phase you as much anymore. Although I am beginning to think my two rabbit additions are a lot more difficult than having my two children lol. But I do try and stick to the same principles haha

[Luna]

I love looking at everyone else’s pics; poop or no poop lol. Personally, I’m very routine and slightly ocd about order/cleanliness and so is Luna (she’s always grooming), so I think that might be reflected in our pics sometimes. I don’t think clean pic backgrounds or nicely groomed buns makes a bun any more or less cute than another bun .

[Tony's Mum]

I’m like Luna, I have a lot of anxiety about mess/germs and I keep my house pretty clean, but Tony isn’t some perfect, poop-free angel by any stretch! I sweep the floors every day and do a big clean ewery week, but there’s plenty of messy/dirty bun pics on my phone, especially this week as Tony has just been spayed and he’s refusing to use his litter box and getting cecotropes all over himself every day 

Here’s some more realsitic pics. Hope it makes you feel a bit better 

  

[Bingaboo]

I have hay in my bed. My rabbit is really quite good with her toilet habits but she tosses hay everywhere, then my dog and husband walk it right through the house. No exaggeration, it literally gets everywhere. Please share your pictures. We can’t all miss out on the cuteness because of a few stray poos.

[CSoehnge]

Thanks everyone….i clean their hutches every other day but two of mine aren’t litterbox trained so maybe that’s it. They are juat messy little things but i feel better knowing i clean almost as much. I just get embarrased on poating pics sometimes with the mess lol. The grooming thing is another story. Two of mine deal with grooming but my new little one kicks my butt trying to do things on him. Any suggestions on getting him use to it?

[Bladesmith]

I clean poos every morning!  And again at the end of the day.  Because Clover and Dawn get along, but Dawn is still trying to dominate Clover and prove she’s the head bunny, so there’s little poos everywhere.

And when Clover goes to sleep, she goes to SLEEP, and she always drops a few out when she does.  it’s kind of endearing.

So no, you’re not alone.

[Luna]

Bladesmith – Aww that IS endearing!

Csoehnge – I would try getting him used to the brush first, but without physically brushing him. Let him sniff it/check it out so that he learns it won’t hurt him. Once he no longer reacts to the brush, then try brushing him just a few passes at a time and stop when he starts making a fuss. Slowly increase the number of passes until he gets comfortable with the process.

[Bladesmith]

Posted By Luna on 4/26/2017 7:33 AM

Bladesmith – Aww that IS endearing!

Csoehnge – I would try getting him used to the brush first, but without physically brushing him. Let him sniff it/check it out so that he learns it won’t hurt him. Once he no longer reacts to the brush, then try brushing him just a few passes at a time and stop when he starts making a fuss. Slowly increase the number of passes until he gets comfortable with the process.

I’d go so far as to leave the brush among his toys (If he’s not going to chew it) and let him chin it and mark it as his own.  Worked for Dawn.

[CSoehnge]

He is slowly getting use to brushing but another issue im having is his puberty tantrums so it depends on the day on what he will let me do but i think he is improving on grooming. The tricky thing will be trying his nails. Thanks for everyones encouragement and help.

[BanditCamp]

Takes time and love. Just recently this week o made bandit a sand box to dig in, filtered sand too so it’s not dusty and clean. He’s now as of last weekend presenting for pets and a few snuggles and kisses

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Posted By CSoehnge on 4/25/2017 5:53 PM

Thanks everyone….i clean their hutches every other day but two of mine aren’t litterbox trained so maybe that’s it. They are juat messy little things but i feel better knowing i clean almost as much. I just get embarrased on poating pics sometimes with the mess lol. The grooming thing is another story. Two of mine deal with grooming but my new little one kicks my butt trying to do things on him. Any suggestions on getting him use to it?

Don’t feel embarrassed, I think part of being a bunny parent is accepting that there WILL be mess. My monsters are litter trained but they are (cough* Buttercup*cough) so dramatic that when they leap out of their litter trays they fling poops everywhere. I pick it up as it happens throughout the day. In the morning when I get up, it’s like a poop factory blew up.

[Tony's Mum]

Posted By sarahthegemini on 5/03/2017 3:37 AM

 In the morning when I get up, it’s like a poop factory blew up.

 That’s the perfect description. Tony’s butt is so fluffy that he basically sweeps the poops out of the litter tray. I keep in inside his cage to minimise the mess, but he also gets hay stuck all over his face and chest too, which gets everywhere. Totally worth it though 

[toki]

I remember when I first got Toki and I was told he was “very clean and litter trained” so I foolishly expected him to instantly know what I wanted him to do with his litter box. You can imagine my face when one of the first things he does is start peeing everywhere and pooping *just* outside of his litter box. I saw such clean pictures of bunny homes and assumed I had inadvertently signed up for a new job as a full-time cleaner. Eventually he became very well-mannered, but at first I felt like it was all going to be a failure. Also, even now there is hay everywhere – even on the walls!! And sometimes when I pet him, it’s like a cloud of fur hits me directly in the face even though I groom him a lot! No bunny home is perfect, so don’t worry about everything being pristine. 

[Bladesmith]

I must be a terrible bunny slave too.  I have pain and functionality issues with my back and hip (As the result of someone t-boning our car at a high rate of speed), and for the last 3 days, all I could do was make sure there was food and water.  Cleaning up bunny berries wasn’t happening.  The bunnies didn’t care, as long as there were hay and water, lol.

Managed to do a major house cleaning yesterday.  Looks orders of magnitude better, but there were still berries on the floor when I got up.  It’s a never ending process.

But an evening of laying on the floor, Clover under my arm cuddling and giving me kisses, and Dawn binkying around and tugging on my socks are worth it.

[pinknfwuffy]

A picture is worth a thousand words. It also hides a million poops.

Olaf is good about his litter habits but you’ll notice that none of my pictures take place in his cage. As previously mentioned, he is a poo flicker upon litter box exit and has gotten into the habit of leaving a little pile outside his box overnight, too. I am willing to bet most of us have about a zillion other pictures outside of the ones we show. I have a ton that I don’t post, not because of messy Olaf, but because of messy me. No one needs to see my papers, piles, and leftovers. :]

You’re not alone. Mess comes free of charge with every rabbit,

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