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- 02/22/2019 at 2:06 AM
  Salt_time
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  I’ve had my Rex rabbit Sugar for about three years now. I got her from a Humane Society when she was about two years old; she had alreaded been spayed.
  When I first got her, she would defacate and urinate on my bed and carpets. She would still use her litter box though. Due to this, I then got a loft bed and she very quickly stopped urinating on the carpets, however the defecations continued. Very recently I moved rooms (I’m in the same house just a different room) and I really want to stop her from taking a dump everywhere she goes, I also want to have my bed on the ground now. Does anyone know how I could prevent her from leaving a bitter present for me wherever she goes?
  I’ve been putting her in her cage whenever she bestows me moist raisins and firmly telling her no and she’s bad, but that doesn’t seem to be doing much and it seems like she is pretty pissed at me now. Also, because her punishment is me putting her in her cage, it feels like she never gets any time to run around anymore.
  
  What should I do about this? Is this a poor way to punish my rabbit? Are there other methods I should use? Should I just be patient and wait for it to work?
  
  I really feel at a loss right now, I really don’t want to see Sugar’s poop everywhere, but I just don’t know how to stop her. She’s litter box trained and spayed- so I really don’t know what’s wrong except that she’s just marking her territory. I don’t wan’t her to mark her territory though- do I just need to show more dominance? How would I do that?
  Any help would be great, thank you.
- 02/22/2019 at 7:26 AM
  sarahthegemini
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  If you’ve moved rooms then chances are it’s territory marking and should subside. Spayed rabbits still mark territory sometimes.
  
  You do not need to assert more domimance and you should not be punishing her (you shouldn’t be punishing a rabbit anyway but especially not for normal rabbit behaviours)
- 02/22/2019 at 7:49 AM
  Asriel and Bombur
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  Buns mark when they move locations. It’s what they do. Bunnies don’t understand punishment, so stop punishing her by putting her in her cage and telling her she’s bad. She’ll only start to dislike and distrust you.
- 02/22/2019 at 7:54 AM
  Bunny House
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  You will need to re litter train. Put her in a small area with her box and when she uses it 99% of the time then you slowly increase her space
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