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This topic has 7sd replies, 8 voices, and was last updated 17 years ago by MooBunnay.

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- 12/03/2007 at 3:12 PM
  Lisa_43
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  Do most rabbits lay in their litter boxes?
  
  If so is there a reason they do this?
- 12/03/2007 at 4:10 PM
  Deleted User
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  Hey Lisa
  
  Oh yeah they like laying and hanging out in their littertrays …. however, my Luey is not a fan of lying in his.
  
  Its their own little safe box …. like us humans we like our own favourite lounge chair or our own bed LOL.
  
  Dawn xx
- 12/03/2007 at 4:55 PM
  Sarita
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  Maybe it’s the most comfortable place for her. Depending on her set-up you might be able to somehow offer her a comfy alternative to the litter box like a hidey hole or something.
  
  None of my rabbits right now lounge in their litter boxes.
- 12/03/2007 at 5:44 PM
  Scarlet_Rose
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  I think a lot of it has to do with where they feel the safest, and for most buns it is in the litterbox. They have 4 sides that come up around them and sort of protect them almost like a "den" in domestic rabbit terms.
- 12/04/2007 at 12:12 AM
  Gravehearted
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  Hareiette used to lay in her litterbox all the time – one was her potty and the second was her princess lounging box. She never went potty in the lounging box – but decided it served better as a toy chest then a bunny bed, so now her toys reside there.
- 12/04/2007 at 9:40 AM
  skunklionshow
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  Leo does this occassionally, which really annoys Jessica. She prefers to potty and nosh when she’s in the litterbox. Sometimes he just goes down there and lays down…which is funny b/c he has a bed that he uses all the time, so I don’t quite get this. I did add an additional "play box" for him. Its a cardboard tray w/ shredded newspaper. Originally I put the sheds in their igloo, but he pulled it all out. Its kinda of gross b/c he pottys in his play box and plays in it all!
- 12/04/2007 at 1:34 PM
  dmh426
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  Sophie is always laying in her litterbox. i think of it as her bed/bathroom…kinda like a small studio apartment! hahaaha hay in one corner, bathroom in the other.
- 12/04/2007 at 3:46 PM
  MooBunnay
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  Hahaha, her studio litterbox My buns like their litterboxes as well, though, now that I have gotten them those cat litterboxes with the tops on them, they seem to prefer to come outside of the litterbox to sleep. I think its pretty normal, it probably feels a bit like their “nest”, and it is covered in their own scent, so they probably feel very safe in their as other people have mentioned.
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