Is it possible to keep unneuteured or unspayed bunny in small bedroom without stink?

[Lunatic]

Hi,

I intend to keep a bunny in my small room 10ft x 13ft

I afraid because my local bunny pet shop is so smelly, is it possible to keep unneuteured or unspayed bunny in small bedroom without stink?

I did some research that in order to lessen that I need to choose :

– female rabbit

– smaller rabbit

– seems rabbit pee is the culprit for stinking odor

one additional question, how many times a day/ a week do you clean the rabbit cage to prevent the stink?

I have plan to adopt little fuzzy lop bunny. 

[jerseygirl]

It’s possible, you just may have a period of time where the smell is stronger then usual. This is normally when the rabbits hormones first come in. But it lessens over time. There are occasions also when a rabbit (desexed or not) can produce more smell. Usually this is when they display territorial behaviours.

 If you are not planning to get the rabbit desexed, I would actually choose a male rabbit. Ideally, an adult one that already has good litter habits.

Unspayed females have a high chance of developing uterine cancer and other uterine infections. It is less of an issue for a single male rabbit to be lect intact.

I encourage you to look into getting a rabbit through a rescue as they are already desexed and are a usually a reasonable price.You could also take a rabbit on a trial period and see how it works out for you. If it will be housed in your room, you will need to see you are not affected by hay, which they must have at all times. Some hays cause allergies for some people, but there are several types to try that may be less of a problem.

For odour control, it’s a matter of using a good litter and how frequently you change it. Wood pellets are really good with this and very affordable. These are usually wood stove pellets (without accelerant) or horse stall pellets. Paper litter is pretty good with odour also. There is no need to use additional bedding products.
I would guess at you needing to change it at least twice a week, possibly more for an unneutered rabbit.
You can use odour absorbers (not room deodorants) in the room to help.

[Bethlovesbunny]

Twice a week? I clean my bunny out everyday, i used to have a rabbit outdoors and the smell got really bad after the 3Rd day and you will also have piles of poop and a lot of wee In the hutch. If bunny is also in a wooden hutch and you don’t clean him/her out every one or two days the wee will sink into the hutch and may even leak.

I now have an indoor bunny and clean him out everyday, he is very clean and there is no odour at all apart from when cleaning him out. The wee is not only bad for you but also for bunny. I have a mini lop in a 120cm by 52cm cage, he has a very huge cage and make sure your bunny can lay fully out both ways of hutch.

I was thinking to get my bunny neutered or spayed but I won’t because it can take away a lovely personality away too but for females I would because it can be more aggressive and territorial.

Male bunny’s I find are very loving and friendly, you can teach a bunny yourself to be litter trained it will take a few weeks but depending on the flooring a spray and sponge will clean the wee easily. Ive had mine for 3 weeks and he is 12 weeks old, he has a lovely personality and I have a great bond with him.

[jerseygirl]

I guess I suggested twice a week as that’s how often I do the full litterbox cleanout. As in dump the lot, wash out box and put in fresh litter pellets. But I use a screen on top of those and dump the poop and soiled hay more regularly as needed. Other then that, I just need to sweep up the floor in the room.

[flemishwhite]

YES Our unneutered (fertile) Bunny lived in our house for five years.  She was a house bunny..  She had excellent litter box manners.  There was no training required…she just naturally as a rabbit kept good litter box manners.  Rabbits really want to be very clean and odor free.  The reason we neutered Bunny was because as a female we knew that there was a 90+% probability she she would die of uterine cancer if not neutered.  We had her neutered at 5 years and and during the operation, it was discovered she had uterine tumors. If your  rabbit is creating a smell, I’d think that you are not preventing the smell. You must clean their litter boxes at least once a day.  Bunny poops don’t stink, but their urine, if you let it age, ti will start to smell.   Bunny urine, like human urine, from a healthy person (rabbit) is clean..absolutely no bacteria.  From a healthy person or rabbit, rabbit is bacteria free. It’s only when when it’s in the open air, the nutrients in the urine start to rot and make an unpleasant smell.

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