Rabbit pees on anything soft??

[beaumont]

Hello, all!

I recently got a little lop and he has been adjusting to his new home spectacularly! However, I am having a liiiittle bit of trouble with litter training. I started off with a tiny corner box for him, but I ended up getting him two much bigger ones (a larger corner and a cat litterbox.) While he is getting better and better, there are a few hiccups. My pen is on a hardwood floor, and I feel a little bad since I want my bun to have somewhere soft to relax (he chills in his litterbox all day and sometime gets soaked in pee!). However, whenever I lay a small towel, bed, or blanket down in an area for him, he pees and poops there instantly! While I am fine with a bit of marking, it is much harder to remove the pee odor from a cloth material than hardwood, and I don’t want him getting confused with where he should tinkle. Thankfully, the second litterbox I got him isn’t used anywhere NEAR as much and is pretty clean, and he chills out there to relax a bit more than the other one.

Should I just leave the pen situation as it is and let him chill in his litterbox? Should I let him pee on the towel/bed? Should I make his entire pen a towel/sheet? How do I remove the odor from a sheet if I do? Thanks for any advice!

[Vincent]

As for removing the odor add some vinigar and baking soda into the wash with the regular cleaning seems to help (or just vinigar is good too) also scrubbing vinigar into carpet helps also

Rabbits love peeing on soft things mine do that too if it’s on the ground so I just have foam matts that they don’t pee on on the ground and a second layer I build of the ground with towels and their bed and blankets where they sleep and this seems to help me!

[LittlePuffyTail]

I’m assuming he is very young and un-neutered? If yes, neutering should help this behavior as it usually calms down territorial markings. Unfortunately, some bunnies tend to have a liking for peeing on soft stuff. My boy is okay with mats and blankets but when I tried to give him a nice plush pet bed, he repeatedly peed all over it. I don’t think making the entire pen a towel would help. Probably just cause him to pee all over the pen.

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