House rabbit no longer using litter and is obsessed with the cat

[Meandmybun]

Hi everyone,
I have had my bun 6 months and she is about 8 months old. She has been really good about always using her litter. She has never once peed outside of her box and there are very little droppings usually but for the past 4 days she hasn’t used her litter for droppings at all and when I woke up this morning she has peed on my floor for the first time ever.
At exactly the same time she started this she also became obsessed with the cat, she won’t leave her alone at all.
She is booked in at the end of next week to get spayed but I’m a little worried this won’t help as much as I’m hoping it will.
Is there anything I can do before she destroys the house and upsets the cat any further?
Thanks for reading and for any help/advice you can offer

[kurottabun]

Sounds very much like hormonal behaviour since her age seems to fit the bill. It should get better after she is spayed, although it will still take some time for the hormones to die down post-spay.

Unfortunately all you can do now is probably just wipe up her stray pee and put her stray poop back in the litter box. I’m not sure what can be done about the cat since hormones are something you can’t control, but I suppose you can just try to prevent her from getting to the cat as much as possible, especially if the cat doesn’t like being bothered so much.

[Luna]

I agree that things should get better after she is spayed. The change won’t be immediate, as it takes around a month for hormones to dissipate, but you should notice a change (ie. improved litter habits, decreased displays of dominance, less territorial aggression). In the meantime, if she is starting to have accidents I would try to keep her off of couches/beds. It’s not unusual for buns (especially unspayed buns) to want to pee there because it is soft. If you can wait to let her on the couch/bed until her litter box habits are perfected, it might help prevent accidents there in the future.

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