Randomly peed outside of litter box

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- 06/02/2022 at 2:29 AM
  Vicky
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  Hi, just a simple question. My bun peed and pooped in her “eating area” where she has more hay. The litter box is just next to it. She also has hay in the litter box. I’m curious why she randomly peed somewhere else if she is litter trained and if it’s something to worry about. She has never done this before.
- 06/02/2022 at 6:14 AM
  Wick & Fable
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  Rabbits are “litter trainable”, but not in the same vein as cats. A rabbit is unlikely to purposely seek out a litterbox wherever you put it in order to use the restroom (they poop +100 times a day… that’s a lot of trips!). Rather, a rabbit’s natural inclinations align well with litterbox training, with that being “I like to poop/pee while I eat.”, which is exactly what you’re seeing here. To a rabbit, there may be little to no difference in pooping/peeing in the same general area, whether it is in or out of this human-made plastic box we provide.
  
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- 06/04/2022 at 5:57 AM
  DanaNM
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  Many of my buns see the “litter box” as where-ever there is hay, so giving hay outside of a box can be a bit confusing to them. An easy solution is to keep all her hay in the litter box. I put hay directly in my buns’ boxes, and then hang a rack that they can only get to from inside the box so they have to jump in to eat it.
  
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- 06/04/2022 at 9:49 AM
  Vicky
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  Thank you all! The hay only in litter box will not be really possible cause she has like multiple places with hay to eat all around my flat 😆
- 06/05/2022 at 9:57 AM
  DanaNM
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  Many people will add a few additional litter boxes in those types of situations. 🙂 The smaller boxes are usually fine when they are a ‘secondary’ box.
  
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